XX Obituary January 21, 2019 version. draft copy. Jonathan isn't dead yet.
XX of Sierra Madre, California, died on (blah blah blah) of (blah blah blah). Born in Boston January 11, 1940, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Sylvester Baker Kelley, XX was educated at Exeter, Princeton, and Harvard Medical School. Trained as an anesthesiologist, he served in the Navy during Vietnam, and then practiced at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California. After retirement in 2002, XX moved to Los Angeles to explore a wealth of non-medical interests: Spanish language and culture, culinary arts, piano, acting, video production and editing, coconut frond weaving, and neon art. Since 2004, he performed the role of Mr. Cormack in the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts’ annual Christmas play, “Too Many Tamales.” 2018 was his 13th run. XX was devoted to his wife Gloria Laino, a successful Latina actress in the film industry. He was the loving father of Sarah Euverard Kelley, and grandfather of New York-trained artist Winifred Chavira. XX remained close to his first wife, the late Mary Katherine Kelley, of Monrovia, California. He leaves his siblings, David Baker Kelley of Olympia WA, Sarah Silverson Shepherd of Braintree MA, and Elisabeth Carling Trexler of New York City, as well as the four children of his wife Gloria: Lara Bataineh Humood of Amman, Jordan, Ali Bataineh of Davie, FL, Lawrence Kennedy of San Francisco, and Francis Kennedy, also of San Francisco.
XX of Sierra Madre, California, died on (blah blah blah) of (blah blah blah). Born in Boston January 11, 1940, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Sylvester Baker Kelley, XX was educated at Exeter, Princeton, and Harvard Medical School. Trained as an anesthesiologist, he served in the Navy during Vietnam, and then practiced at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California. After retirement in 2002, XX moved to Los Angeles to explore a wealth of non-medical interests: Spanish language and culture, culinary arts, piano, acting, video production and editing, coconut frond weaving, and neon art. Since 2004, he performed the role of Mr. Cormack in the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts’ annual Christmas play, “Too Many Tamales.” 2018 was his 13th run. XX was devoted to his wife Gloria Laino, a successful Latina actress in the film industry. He was the loving father of Sarah Euverard Kelley, and grandfather of New York-trained artist Winifred Chavira. XX remained close to his first wife, the late Mary Katherine Kelley, of Monrovia, California. He leaves his siblings, David Baker Kelley of Olympia WA, Sarah Silverson Shepherd of Braintree MA, and Elisabeth Carling Trexler of New York City, as well as the four children of his wife Gloria: Lara Bataineh Humood of Amman, Jordan, Ali Bataineh of Davie, FL, Lawrence Kennedy of San Francisco, and Francis Kennedy, also of San Francisco.