Dec 24, 2020
MASS John Trombley Maloney (B. 1-17-1940) died at home peacefully on Tuesday, December 22, 2020, with his wife, Gayle, by his side.
John was a lifelong resident of Mass – Greenland, who graduated from Mass High School, attended Michigan Tech, served honorably in the U.S. Army in Germany, and decided as a young man that he preferred working in the woods to any other profession.
He loved hunting and the Goose Camp, enjoyed fishing, and was a crazy man on a snowmobile. Most of all, he loved being in the woods with a good dog. His life’s work was a small logging and land clearing business from which he never truly retired. In life, John is best remembered as someone who was always going, doing, helping, talking and laughing. Only in his last two years, because of Parkinson’s, did he ever slow down. Whether you knew him as JussiPoikka, Jack, or Charlie, or you didn’t know him at all, John loved to talk. Many of his stories came from working as a kid peeling pulp