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Beloved husband, eldest of six boys, father to three children, grandfather to twelve and great grandfather to eight, Jack Conroy passed into his eternal home on September 5th, 2022.
Born in Chicago in 1937, Jack attended Mount Carmel High School (’55) where he received a Fred B. Snite scholarship at any Catholic University. Jack chose the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated in 1959. Thereafter he received a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship to study Philosophy at Fordham University, collecting both an MA and the love of his life, Joan. After a short experience in teaching at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, he temporarily abandoned higher education when Jack’s Uncle Ed, owner of Marhoefer Construction, asked him to move to Naples in 1963 (population at the time of about 7,000) for a six-month stint to complete several jobs. Jack and Joan never left, and Naples became their home.
While at Marhoefer Construction, Jack constructed many local buildings, including the first major expansion of the Naples Community Hospital, the Edgewater Beach Hotel, the Cove Inn and St. Ann Church, where they have been parishioners since its completion.
In 1969, Jack turned his attention to real estate. His analytical mind attracted him to commercial real estate, and in 1976 he founded Investment Properties Corporation (IPC). His thirst for knowledge led him to become the first CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member) in Naples and it rekindled his desire for teaching. Jack taught CCIM courses nationally for 25 years and many senior CCIMs in Naples have been in his classes. As a commercial Realtor, Jack developed many local projects including The Commons, Northgate Village, Patriot Square and Page Field Medical Village.
Throughout his professional life, Jack was fully invested in the Naples community. He was on the Board and President of many community associations including the Tri-County Builders Association (predecessor to today’s CBIA), the Naples Area Chamber of Commerce and the Naples Area Board of Realtors (NABOR). He spent over ten years as Chairman of the Collier County Affordable Housing Advisory Committee, and was inducted into the Junior Achievement Business Leadership Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2020, he was awarded the NABOR Commercial Realtor Achievement Award.
While teaching CCIM courses fulfilled his desire for analytical instruction, Jack loved teaching philosophy, and throughout his early years in Naples, he taught as an adjunct professor for both Edison Community College and Barry University.
Beginning in 1992 Jack and Joan spent summers at Notre Dame taking Master’s level courses in Theology, where he was offered a scholarship to attend the University full-time. This opportunity led him to retire at 65 years of age and return to his beloved University to secure a Ph.D. in Theology, which was awarded seven years later in 2008. After graduating, he taught theology and scripture for the Blessed Edmund Rice School and Barry University.
Through the years, Jack remained involved in St. Ann Church. He served as a lector, participated in the RCIA program, wrote weekly for the church bulletin and spoke regularly on Scripture. He was passionate about overcoming historical Christian Anti-Judaism and co-chaired the Catholic-Jewish Dialogue of Collier County for seven years. Jack wrote and published two novels about the life of Paul and the development of the Early Church: The Sign of the Cross and The First Thousand Years.
Above all, Jack is remembered as a man of great integrity, intellect, wisdom, and family devotion. His love for family is expressed in these lines from a poem he wrote many years ago:
It is impossible to become a self
Except with others,
Except with the personmaking role
Of the family.
Every time I think of how smart
God is,
I think of how he used the Family to
create his world.
Jack passed from this world surrounded by his family. He is survived by his wife, Joan, his son Tom Conroy (Kim), his daughter MaryZoe Bowden (Bill), and his daughter Kristin Conroy (Kevin). He was also blessed with twelve grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Tvilling.
E-mail sendt til Jens Kr. Kjær Krogsgaard den 5. juli 2009:
Dear Jens, after reading the emails from my siblings to you, I thought I'd introduce myself and my family. I'm Joan Christesen Conroy, John's twin. We'll be 73 in July. While living in New York with my siblings, I met the love of my life, John (Jack) T Conroy, Jr., who was studying at Fordham University, which is located only a few miles from our home. We married and he taught Philosophy but for a short time when he decided to go into the business world. We moved to Chicago, IL, (where he was born and his parents and siblings lived) and joined a general contractor in the accounting office. Within a year, 1963, we were asked to move to Naples Florida, where the company was a major force in area's condominium and commercial development. In 1969, Jack elected to enter the commercial real-estate business, where he continued to develop buildings and subdivisions. He retired in 2002, and returned to The University of Notre Dame (from which he had graduated in 1959) and secured a Ph.D. in Scripture in 2008. We spent over four years living in South Bend, Indiana, and were happy to return to Southwest Florida to our family and friends. We have three
children: Tom, 48, (an attorney) is married to Kim and they have four children. His eldest, John T. Conroy IV, just graduated from Notre Dame this past May and became engaged to his college sweetheart, Christine. They plan to be married next summer. Caitlin (19) is a sophomore at The University of Tampa this Fall. Patrick (16) and Michael (11) are both students at The Community School of Naples.
Mary Zoe, our second child, is 45, and married to Bill Bowden. They have six children. Mary Zoe has four children from a previous marriage and Bill two children from a previous marriage. Mary Zoe's children are Joan Isabelle,(20) a junior at Eckard College (in Florida); Alex (19) a sophomore at Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina; Kristin (17) and Zoe (16) both attend Seacrest Day Country School in Naples where Mary Zoe teaches literature and Spanish. She is presently ABD, hoping to get her PhD in a few years. Bill's children are Anthony, who graduated from the University of South Florida this past May and will be attending the Bristol Old Vic Theater (School) this Fall. Rachel (17) attends Seacrest with Kristin and Zoe. Our youngest daughter, Kristin, is married to Kevin Casey.
She is an attorney and works with her brother Tom at Conroy, Conroy and Durant. The firm specializes in real estate law. They have two children, Elissa, 9 ,and Liam, 7; both attend Osceola School. Jack and I have been blessed to have our whole family living in Naples.
This happens very seldom in the United States. We have celebrated all birthdays and holidays together for many years; and only lately miss those who are now in college. The family keeps me busy as well as church and community activities. It was so good to hear from you and see your family picture. I'll send you a family picture shortly.
Jack and I send our best regards, Joan
Eller Cleemann Jürgen Christesen.
Civil ingeniør.
Forlod Danmark og emigrerede til Brisbane, Australien, da han nægtede at blive indkaldt til den tyske hær efter at Slesvig-Holstein var annekteret i 1864.
Flyttede til Cunnamulla p.g.a. ægtefælles astma og fik arbejde i PMG.
Stammede fra Irland, men bosatte sig i Brisbane, Australien.
Fik p.g.a. høj luftfugtighed astmaanfald og Clement og Brigid måtte flytte til Cunnamulla hvor det var tørre.
Var blond og havde blå øjne.
Uddannet på St. Joseph's College, Nudgee.
Var en eminent reffelskytte og var medlem af Queenlands skydehold.
Var ansat i Department of Justice.
Hun var mest af irsk afstamning.
Hendes tip-oldefar, Hugh Vesty Byrne, fik tilladelse til at emigrere til Amerika med familien, men de opdagede til deres skræk at det skib de havde taget, Tellicherry, gik til Australien ! De bosatte sig i Campbelltown nær Sydney.
Havde ingen børn.
Var en kendt forfatter.
The information about the famili is in Chapter 2 of "The Christesen Romance, by Judith Armstrong, Melbourne University Press."
Cousin Rosalie:I have a copy of a letter that C.B. Christesen wrote to Donald. He states that Clement and my grandfather (he calls him Charles, not Carl) migrated. He said that there was a third brother, the youngest, but he did not know his name or anything about him. His brother, Paul, was a scientist, who was six years younger than he. Paul's first wife, was Elspeth (nee Salkeld). Paul had a son Ian, who lives in Brisbane with his son Grant and a daughter, Nina Joan, who is married with no children, who Donald and Ermine met in Australia. In this letter, he said that before the outbreak of war, he went to Hamburg to meet his great uncle, Captain Asmus Knudsen, one-time Commadore of the Amerika-Hamburg Line. He could not recall how Knudsen was connected with the Christesen family. However, Donald sent you a picture of Asmus Knudsen when he was visiting Connecticut. He was the husband of one of the sisters of Carl Nicolai and Nicolai Bernhard. In the picture that we have, it states that Mrs. Knudsen and Mrs. Hansen were sisters of your great grandfather and my grandfather. The Knudsens may have lived in Hamburg, Germany and Mrs. Hansen lived in Connecticut. They state that Mrs. Knudsen had two daughters. You can see the sisters in the picture that Donald sent you. Mrs. Hansen had a son and daughter.The notes for the picture state that Mrs. Hansen was named "Christina" and was married to Peter Hansen and their children were Theodore and Katie. This is information we received from our Aunt Gertrud, my father's half-sister by Carl Nicolai's first wife, Caroline. My grandmother, Rose Metzler Christesen, was Carl Nicolai's second wife, She was born in New York and her parents were born in Germany.
Her parents moved around the world to several places and settled in Australia. She had no children.
Nina was famous for being the first university professor in Australia to teach Russian.
Was a scientist. Se envidere note under broderen.
Andreas Christian Ludvig Grove-Rasmussen
Student 1855 (Haderslev Skole), cand.theol. 1860. 1862 Kapellan for Balslev-Ejby menighed (Fyen). Januar 1864 Kapellan for Gram menighed. 1868 sognepræst til Foel. 1870 afskediget af Tyskerne, som følge af nej til i sin kirkebøn at bede for tysk sejr over Frankrig. 1871 udsendt til U.S.A. af udvalget for den dansk-amerikanske mission. 1871-74 rejsepræst. 1874 sognepræst til Harte og Bramdrup. 1878 sognepræst til Allerup og Davinde. 1892 sognepræst til St. Hans Kirke, Odense.
Overtoldkontrollør i Odense.
Fysikus for Haderslev-Vestweamt, Dr.med.
Student 1825, cand.theol. 1829. Adjunkt i Odense 1830. Ordineret Kateket i Horsens 1834, Sognepræst til Marstal 1843 og til Rise (Ærø) 1854.
Peter Carl Immanuel Christoffer Grove-Rasmussen
Cand.pharm. Apoteker i Skærbæk, Brædstrup, Odense og sidst på apoteket Falken på Frederiksberg.
Andreas Christian Gotthilf Grove
Generalkrigskommissær, kommandør, kæmmerer ved Øresund Toldkammer.
Andreas Christian Gotthilf Grove (søn af kontorchef Johan Christian G. og Mette Marie Ærreboe), født 3. februar 1761 i København (Holmens), død 20. maj 1817 i Helsingør (Skt. Mariæ). Gift 11. september 1790 i Helsingør (Skt. Mariæ) med Henriette Petronelle Jessen (datter af toldkammerer Nicolaj Jacob J. og Marie Christine Jacobi), født 5. november 1765 i København (Slotskirken), død 4. februar 1828 i København.
Søkadet 1770, sekondløjtnant 21. august 1782, premierløjtnant 6. marts 1789, kaptajnløjtnant 20. december 1796, kaptajn 13. maj 1803, kommandørkaptajn 7. februar 1810. Ekvipagemester på Nyholm 24. deember 1802. Toldkammerer ved Øresunds toldkammer 3. juni 1813, idet han bestyrede Schous embede. Hans enke døde som konventualinde i Det Harboeske Enkefruekloster i København.
Student 1825, cand.theol. 1829. Adjunkt i Odense 1830. Ordineret Kateket i Horsens 1834, Sognepræst til Marstal 1843 og til Rise (Ærø) 1854.