John Thomas James was born in Chicago to Harriet and Harry James on July 2, 1943 and passed away at home on June 29, 2024. He graduated from Lane Tech in 1961 and University of Illinois in 1966 as an Electrical Engineer. John's main career years were spent working at Honeywell, first as an Engineer in Arlington Heights and then in Minneapolis, Minnesota in Product and Sales for Building Controls. He met the love of his life in October 1974 at Honeywell and married Phyllis (Phyl) McLain James on May 17, 1975. Their daughter Karen was born in October 1978 and then the family moved to New York in 1979, where their son Bob was born in September 1980. Further moves brought them back to Minnesota and Illinois and a job change took John and Phyl to Massachusetts in 1997, where they lived until they retired in 2002. John and Phyl moved to Sun City, Huntley, IL in 2003 and is where Phyl remains. John was active in Sun City, from the Woodshop, golfing, weekly Bridge card games and playing on an

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