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Jon Stephen Saleeby, 64
Jon Stephen “Porkchop” Saleeby, 64, died Aug. 17 at his home on Embden Valley Heights in central Maine.
Jon was born July 8, 1944, to Abraham and Arline Saleeby in Norway, Maine, nine months after a game of strip poker.
Jon, a Vietnam vet, was a master craftsman, furniture maker, raconteur, thespian, brewer and fisherman. He had a kinetic energy that surrounded him and a knack for keeping things ship-shape yet chaotic. With his swashbuckling stride, and swarthy panache, Jon lit up a room just by entering it.
Jon, who was affectionately known as Uncle Porkchop, loved Provincetown and everything about it — the sea, the dunes and its artistic life. He and his life partner, Lolly Phoenix, lived in Provincetown in the ’70s and early ’80s. He fished with Dennis Clark on the Manko, and he spent each fall and spring living in the dune shacks.
In addition to Lolly, his beloved of 32 years, he is survived by a close-knit family who will sorely miss him, and many dear friends in Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet and Maine, where he and Lolly lived for the last 25 years.
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Clement S. Silva, 81
Olga E. Lyons, 81
Virginia Morton, 99
Charles Francis, 81
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Sep 4th, 2008