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Jon McCormick Obituary
Jon was a caring and compassionate person who never met a stranger. He had a lasting impact on anyone who met him. Jon loved being an Uncle and was great with kids, but never knew the joys of being a father except to his cats. He had a love for playing guitar which led him to perform in multiple Seattle rock bands over the last two decades of his life. Having been an Oregon Duck, he had a friendly collegiate rivalry with his many Washington Huskie cousins. He would always love to surprise his many friends with a good prank and had a loud and heartfelt laugh with them afterwards.
Jon is survived by his wife Cynthia, his mother Teddi Beard and her wife Debra Arends of Salem, OR, and his step-mother Lori McCormick of Sheridan, Wyo. He is preceded in death by his father Terry McCormick.
Jon attended Winston Churchill High School in Eugene, OR and went on to earn a higher education degree from the University of Oregon. He had a successful career as CFO of Jorve Roofing and Controller for Nelson Electric.
In his free time, Jon was a guitarist for Hairstorm, an 80's rock cover band, Hunter Eats Hunter, and The Storm Before The Calm.
A Musical Tribute and Celebration of Life was held in Kirkland, WA on March 19th where several of Jon's bands performed. Jon will be deeply missed by his family, friends, and all who knew him.
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Jonathan Seeber
September 21, 2023
It was a pleasure making music with Jon, probably one of the best bands I´ve ever played with. We always got a giggle that we were musicians/accountants
Susie Kinney
July 6, 2023
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July 6, 2023
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Susie Kinney
July 6, 2023
Susie Kinney
July 6, 2023
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Susie Kinney
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Susie Kinney
July 6, 2023
I´ll never forget the first one I saw you play with your band in Seattle. What a rock star! You were so full of energy and looked so happy doing what you loved. I remember feeling like I had an in to a part your life that some others didn´t. I had a back stage pass for an amazing band but most importantly for my brother. From the day I met you I adored you. So many great memories with you when you´d come for visits. I love you so much. Thank you for always knowing how to make me smile. You will always be in my heart .
Matt Hamel
July 5, 2023
One of my earliest memories -- Hand-Me-Down clothing from my cousin. The 7o´s style collars and bell bottom pants arrived for me to wear in 1979-81, which didn´t make any sense by that point. But I still wore them for a few months. All these clothes arriving in piles in large boxes, I only found out later, had been pre-worn when I saw different pictures of both Jon & David wearing the same pants and shirts in the proper decade where the clothes belonged. The sweatshirts with the NFL team helmets were my favorite (big shock).
· Another early life memory, playing with freshly unwrapped Christmas toys in old school pajamas. Boxes & Boxes of Pictures helped bring back memories, but I do still recall us older cousins all in onesie pajamas around the Christmas tree, and yes, the shaggy red carpet and 70´s style window curtains in the background in all those pictures really were a thing back then.
· Adolescent and Teenage years for the cousins brought several Beard family gatherings and the inevitable cousin stair step pictures. Ohhh the choir of groans from the entire group and Jon´s patented scowl/grimace followed by his biggest over exaggerated smile when the picture was snapped. This notorious ritual started on actual stair steps for a few years when there were only a handful of cousins, but then we grew in both numbers and in size, and this procession moved to hallways, driveways and eventually stretching down the street, ...yes seriously.
· So many memories of feasts in a group at the cousins table for Thanksgiving and the au gratin potatoes w/Ham the night after Thanksgiving. This tradition started with some cousins still in booster seats in the 80´s and stayed alive until some of us were in our 30´s. (Or nearly 40, for one of us.)
· The quintessential cousin moment for me, has to be the all night endeavor to finish Zelda on Nintendo, with the living room littered with cousins sleeping bags. If I remember correctly, Mike, David and Jon were tag teaming at the end to finish the game at 4am (might have been 3am, but 4am makes for a better story). When they finally beat the game after an intense night, the big group of cousins instantly dog piled in the middle of the room in the quietest whispering dog pile you´ve ever seen.
· We most certainly poke fun and groan at the traditions and rituals, but the several decades of laughs and smiling until our face hurt every year when we all got to hang out was extremely valuable & cherished experiences in our lives.
· Jon and I as kids quickly found common interests in baseball. When I was 10, Jon introduced me to a baseball statistics board game appropriately called Statis-Pro-Baseball. It was Dungeons & Dragons with baseball cards and we both enjoyed simulating entire baseball seasons on our own. This often meant disappearing into our rooms from our families for months on end. And it does sound strange, but we were both living in different states addicted to playing the same board game solo.
· When I was 12, Jon introduced me to his wall of cassette tapes of music. Later in the 90´s it became a wall of CD´s ...but in 1986, it was an epic collection of tapes. We crafted up a handful of mixed tapes of my favorite must-have 80´s hits, which I proceeded to listen to both back home and on every Thanksgiving car ride journey in my middle school years.
· In the late 90´s, I returned back to Seattle after college and Jon and I roomed together for 18 months in David´s old condo. So yes, David also hand-me-downed living quarters in Bellevue on 148th to both Jon and I. It was a lot of fun rooming with my cousin, even if he kept the litter box for his cat´s in this small condo next to the dining room table. Needless to say, I´ve never lived with pets since the day I moved out & got my own apartment in 1999.
· At the end of the 90´s and the early 2000´s, Jon and I went to concerts together, saw the opening night of the original "What is the Matrix" in the theaters together, played on a softball team together, attended Mariners games back when they were a good team, and saw numerous Oregon Ducks basketball and football games. In 2002, we worked as a team with a mutual friend to create a customized Dynasty Fantasy Football League with player contracts and a salary cap, yes, its as nerdy as it sounds with a full 18 page rules document. The league is still going today in its 22nd year. Not that anyone´s keeping score, but Jon and I both own two Championships each in the 12 owner league. And as Jon would say "You bet that matters!".
· I´m so proud of how Jon pursued his passion for music in the cover bands he played in for the past decade. Before that he extensively played in highly competitive softball and whirlyball leagues. (Yes, they took their track ball in bumper cars very seriously. And Yes, its hard to believe until he teaches you all the different throwing techniques and ways to stop the opponents).
· Jon was a soft spoken, loyal friend, and true gentleman with a big heart. He always put others ahead of himself, used his quick wit & ironic humor to diffuse tense moments and make others comfortable. I will really miss my good friend and close cousin Jon. So many memories. So much to be thankful for. Rest in Peace Jon.
Teddi Beard
July 1, 2023
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July 1, 2023
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Matt Hamel
June 29, 2023
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Danny Beard
June 23, 2023
My favorite years with Jon started when he finished college and moved nearby, and I was in middle school and old enough to hang out with my grown-up cousins. He was impossibly cool: had guitars and played rock music, was always making jokes and movie references that were way beyond my comprehension, and even had his own custom pool cues. Even as a nerdy kid a decade younger, who didn´t know anything about football or ´80s music and was awful at whiffleball, Jon always made me feel like I genuinely belonged.
I´ll always have happy memories of epic Thanksgivings, late movie nights, 1990s joke email forwards, a catalog of `80s and `90s catch-phrases that I´ll probably never fully understand but will always make me smile, attending Hard Rock Cafe concerts and being able to tell people "that´s my (fellow) accountant cousin playing up there!" But mostly of a perpetually kind and inclusive human being that I always felt lucky to have in my family.
Every family deserves to have a Jon McCormick.
Colin Martin
June 19, 2023
Jon was a great role model for me when I was a young kid. He was my older cousin, and we'd see each other a couple times a year.
He was so funny and fun to be around. (Yes Mike, it was the giggle-snorts.) He had the coolest room of any of my cousins. When I was about 7 or 8, my little sister and I were hanging out in his room, and he was playing his electric guitar while Marie and I took turns playing his Atari. He accidentally swallowed a guitar pick while doing a silly voice, and said through his sputtering and coughing, "Tastes great, less filling!" I couldn't stop laughing for hours. He was just so great with us young ones. Such a sweet and good natured guy.
We love you, cousin.
David Kaye
June 19, 2023
David Kaye
June 19, 2023
David Kaye
June 19, 2023
Jon was many things to me: cousin, roommate, friendly competitor, fellow accountant, collegiate rival, and great friend. I have so many fond memories. He and I shared the same dry sense of humor and loved good-natured fun and competition. As kids, we enjoyed so many street whiffleball battles and video game marathon sessions. I am pretty sure we went to our first concert together (Night Ranger at the Hult Center!) and I watched his love for rock music grow.
In our twenties, we supported each other as we started our professional careers, adopted our first cats together, enjoyed many nights exploring the local Hollywood video aisles to discover hidden gem movies, finally saw our beloved Seattle Mariners make the playoffs in 1995, and proved that Huskies and Ducks can co-exist in harmony.
We would constantly try to make each other laugh. I still crack up at the memory of us torturing our cousins with endless recitals of the latest pop culture catch phrases during Thanksgiving celebrations in Cottage Grove.
Jon had such a kind heart. I could always count on him. Every one of my friends that I introduced him to always had the same way to describe him: great guy. He is missed.
Mike Hamel
June 17, 2023
When we were growing up, I was always trying my best to keep up with my older cousins. Jon was always so kind and thoughtful to me, even though I was much younger than him, and included me in all of the activities. I never felt out of place or like I didn´t belong with the group as we played games and enjoyed our activities together. He did a great job modeling for me how to engage and build into younger kids.
Another consistent memory I have of Jon is his quick-witted humor. We would often be consumed with laughter (I believe it was referred to as "giggle-snorts", if I recall correctly), when Jon would take some common topic and turn it into a side-splitting comedy routine which would build until we were keeled over and couldn´t see straight due to the tears of laughter filling our eyes.
Because of these memories, whenever I think of cousin Jon, a smile always comes to my face.
Barbara Kaye Bonillas
June 13, 2023
I have been lacking in words worthy of expressing my own and my whole family's sorrow in mourning Jon's sudden death. I grieve especially for my sister Teddi in her immense feelings of loss and love. Jon was one of many cousins who shared a tight bond, even becoming roommates at times. In retrospect, those of us in the older generation find most of our memories of Jon are tied up in watching the cousins all together doing their own things at family gatherings, particularly our epic Thanksgiving celebrations. One of my favorite memories, though, is at a much later Thanksgiving celebration in Seattle area, the first time in a long while that the Ashland/Medford part of the family had been able to join us. Jon took great pains to order from New York a very special Pride rainbow cake and presented it in honor of his mom and his cousins. It was such a sweet gesture, and that's pretty much how I always thought of Jon, sweet, kind, and loving. I am hoping that --with time-- the memories and the love will bring peace to all of us who grieve Jon's absence.
Marco Lago
June 12, 2023
Marco Lago
June 12, 2023
Marco Lago
June 12, 2023
Gone far too soon, Jon McCormick (aka. Jonny Danger) was more than just a former bandmate, he was my friend. His kindhearted personality and youthful exuberance made him universally loved and respected in our musical community/family (and beyond, no doubt). I consider myself blessed to have shared so much fun on and off stage with someone like him.
My heart, thoughts and prayers still go out to his entire family.
Rock on, Jon. We all now have the coolest guardian angel around. You will be missed, my friend.
Teddi Beard
June 10, 2023
Teddi Beard
June 10, 2023
Teddi Beard
June 10, 2023
A parent is not supposed to lose a child...There are no words. You were the highlight and most important part of my life. I fell in love with you the moment you were born and you brought such joy into my life. I will love you way beyond forever and look forward to seeing you on the other side when it´s my time. . Love, Mom
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