Jonathan-Charles-Obituary

Jonathan Charles

Los Angeles, California

1946 - 2016

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October 14, 1946 - December 28, 2016 Jon Charles, arranger, composer, musician, late-blooming marathoner, master of the humorous aside, devoted husband, quirky sibling, hail-fellow-well-met, a true one-of-a-kind individual of great talent and generosity of spirit, part elf, part stand-up comic,...

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Dear Maureen and Family,

We are saddened by the news of Jon's premature passing.
We hold our memories of happy times together close to our hearts. Jon was present as one of the 6 witnesses at our wedding celebration 31 years ago.
He will be forever in our memories. He gifted the world his sweet spirit with his great sense of humor and talents galore.
We wish you all long life and apologize that we are unable to be present at the Memorial due to Irwin's ill health....

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My sincerest condolences. I have been going to Landmark for a few years and always had the pleasure of seeing his precision and quality at work, his generosity and kindness to us all, he was truly a man that connected to and with people and will be missed. His memory will live in all of us. Lots of love and peace to you Mo. Diana & Jacob

Maureen - Just heard today! So so sorry to hear....I loved Jon and had the best times with talking percussion...all those wonderful years with Jack Elliott...and 1 particular wonderful time with his Dad and Musicians' Transfer playing vibes...

Much love...
Judy Chilnick

Thank you Jon for your uplifting joyful being, always a light around you, we are so grateful to have had the chance to be in your life and in ours, so glad to have sung with you!!! Have a wonderful time in heaven we will miss you down here!

I am sooooo shocked and saddened to learn of Jon's passing. He was such an amazingly creative, loving, and generous sprite of a person !!!! He always shared his quick wit and made me smile and feel good about the world. Whenever I sent him an email, he always had a witty retort to share back with me... I looked forward to getting them to see what he was going to create!

As they say, when they made Jon, they threw away the mold - he was truly one of a kind and I am finding it hard...

So many happy memories of watching Sha-Na-Na with my family as a child: thank you, Jon.

Goodnight, Jon. Grease for peace. Maureen, his memory will be for such an incredible blessing for so many people. I love you so much.

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)