Jonathan Kelley
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    • Monologs >
      • You Can't Handle the Truth
      • The Matrix
      • Shawshank Redemption
    • Stage >
      • Burlador de Sevilla
      • Too Many Tamales >
        • Too Many Tamales 2024
        • Too Many Tamales 2022
        • Too Many Tamales 2019
        • TMT 2016
        • TMT 2014 Conga
        • TMT 2014 Tamales Song
        • TMT 2014 Cormack monolog
      • The Bird Cage (Jaula de las Locas)
    • Film >
      • Amor en 266 Millas
      • Beauty in the Broken
      • Look No More
    • TV >
      • Better Things, S4 E5 Carbonara
    • Commercials >
      • Milk Life Tango
    • Internet >
      • Falling in Reverse, I'm not a Vampire
      • I Am Easy to Find, The National
      • Kubed Living
      • Tosh O. Vegan
      • Interview, Alas Media
  • Art Projects
    • Glass projects >
      • Pellegrino drinking glasses
      • Mosaic glass
    • Neon Art Projects >
      • Neolithic Spiral
      • Newgrange Neon Spiral
      • Neon Coconut Palm Tree
    • Coconut Frond Weaving
  • Musical Projects
    • A Fine Romance
    • Bamba
    • Begin the Beguine
    • Beyond the Sea, J and G
    • Blues Exercise, 2020
    • Christmas Music >
      • God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
      • Baby, It's Cold Outside
      • I'll Be Home for Christmas
    • Dí Porqué
    • Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
    • Early Autumn
    • Easter Parade
    • I Get Along Without You Very Well
    • I'm Just Wild About Harry
    • Jonathan's musical compositions >
      • My Los Angeles
      • Life is Like a Stage Play
      • Pretend
      • Get A Dog
      • Let's Begin
      • Leila
      • Unexpectedly
    • Jonathan sax numbers >
      • Four Brothers
      • Jonathan's Sax numbers
      • Cute
    • Let Me Call You Sweetheart
    • Let's Get Away From It All
    • Lil Darlin'
    • Lullaby of Broadway
    • Lulu's Back in Town
    • Memories are Made of This
    • Rags >
      • Bumble Boogie
      • College March Boogie Woogie Medley
      • Dill Pickles Rag
      • Joplin - Bethena
      • Joplin - Elite Syncopations
      • Joplin - The Entertainer
      • Joplin - Heliotrope Bouquet
      • Joplin - Magnetic Rag
      • Joplin - Maple Leaf Rag
      • Joplin - The Nonpareil 1907
      • Joplin - Palm Leaf Rag
      • Joplin - Peacherine Rag
      • Joplin - Pineapple Rag
      • Joplin-Solace
      • Joplin - Sycamore
      • Joplin - Wall Street Rag
    • Ragtime Cowboy Joe
    • Rhode Island is Famous for You
    • Sand in My Shoes
    • Sand in my Shoes
    • Tea For Two
    • Tzena Tzena Tzena
    • Ukulele
    • Ukulele: Puff the Magic Dragon
    • We'll Sing in the Sunshine
    • When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
    • When Joanna Loved Me
    • You're a Grand Old Flag medley
    • You're Just In Love
    • Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
  • Culinary Projects
    • Amaretti al Mascarpone
    • Coconuts >
      • Coconuts demo trailer 2015
      • Coconut Lime Soup
      • Coconut Shell Bowl
      • Coconut Cream Pie
      • Tembleque
    • Tropical Fruits >
      • How to eat a mango
      • How to eat a pomelo
    • Pies
    • Croissants
    • Watermelon Poinsettias
  • Head Shots
  • Xootr Mg Kick Scooter
  • Literary Projects
    • Senior on a Xootr Scooter
    • Timely Tips for the Home Chef
    • Counting Backwards from 100: My Life as an Anesthesiologist
    • Short Stories by Jonathan Kelley
    • Poems >
      • The Little Boy and the Old Man
      • Christ Climbed Down
      • La Niña de Guatemala
      • In Flanders Fields
    • Obituaries >
      • MKK Obituary
      • J Obituary
      • S Obituary
      • D Obituary
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XX Obituary  May 20, 2024 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, Jonathan 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,  Jonathan 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.  For 16 seasons he performed the role of Mr. Cormack in the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts’ annual Christmas play, “Too Many Tamales.”  He had the occasional principal role in film and TV productions, as well as being a background performer, most often in the TV show B Positive.  Jonathan 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.  Jonathan remained close to his first wife, Mary Katherine Kelley, until her death in 2019.  His older brother David Baker Kelley passed in 2023.  Jonathan leaves his sisters, Sarah Silverson Shepherd of Portland, ME, 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.  


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Scatter my ashes from the ferry from Rockland to Vinalhaven, or off the pier at Gilligan’s Island in Guanica, PR.