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Jon A. Erikson

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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Jon A. Erikson, 59, passed away July 28, 2014. A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, August 2 at 4:00 PM at Boca Raton Community Church, 470 NW 4th Avenue. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Boca Raton Community Church Erikson Memorial Fund.

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Jon was a hero of mine when I was in the third grade and he was graduating from high school at Harvard St. George in Chicago. Thank you for being such an inspiration to a third grader. love and respect to your family

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I knew both Jon and Ted Erikson from the late 1960s. Jon and I were the same age and swam together at Ridge Park in Chicago. I will never forget the day he told me he wanted to do something that no one had ever done before. We were both eleven years old. He said he wanted to swim the English Channel. The following year my family moved to Arizona and Jon became the youngest person ever to swim the English Channel. I lost contact with Jon for almost 45 years but reconnected with his dad...