John Greenwood Jennings Jr.
Marriages
Elizabeth A Means
divorced
Obituaries
The Daily Sentinel page 5B Death Notice - December 5, 2018
John Greenwood Jennings Jr., 95, Collbran, died Dec. 1, 2018, at HopeWest Hospice. Private family services will take place in the spring. He served in the 10th Mountain Division in WWII and was a ski lift executive. Survivors include two sons, John G. III of Portland, Oregon and Paul Macomber of Collbran; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions to HopeWest Hospice, 3090B N. 12th St., Grand Junction, 81506.
The Daily Sentinel page 5B Obituary - December 12, 2018
John Jennings December 21, 1922 - December 1, 2018
John Greenwood Jennings Jr., of Collbran, Colorado, left this life on December 1, 2018, just short of his 96th birthday at HopeWest Hospice in Grand Junction, Colorado. John was born on December 21, 1922, in Waltham, Massachusetts to John Greenwood Jennings Sr. and Doris Macomber Jennings. He attended Cushing Academy and went to Dartmouth College, Class of 1945, where he majored in history while on the football team and excelling on the ski team. He was a member of the SAE fraternity. WWII intervened and he was recruited for the 10th Mountain Division as a member of F Company of the 87th Mountain Infantry and served in the Mountain Training Group where he taught winter survival, rock climbing, and skiing. He fought in Northern Italy in the Apennines and Po Valley. He earned two Bronze Stars, a Good Conduct Medal, a Theater Ribbon, and a Brazilian Battalion Medal for his part in the Honor Guard accompanying returning Brazilian soldiers to Rio De Janeiro. After the war, he returned to Dartmouth, graduating in 1948 with a BA in History and an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck Business School in 1949. After Tuck, he began various marketing and advertising jobs in Boston and then went West to Colorado where he was briefly the Marshal of old Dillon, CO, and a traveling salesman covering Western Colorado for a variety of products. While living in Denver in 1954, he married Elizabeth A. Means of Cambridge, MA (deceased), a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, based in Denver as a stewardess for United Airlines. Their two children, John G. Jennings, III and Paul M. Jennings were born in Denver. Around 1960, John moved his family to Munson, MA where he worked as a marketing executive for the Breck Co. in Springfield, rising to be an award winning VP. Moving on to American Cyanamid Co., he moved his family to Tuxedo Park, NY and commuted to Wayne, NJ and New York City. The lure of the mountains drew him back to Colorado in 1966, to Evergreen, and then to a ranch in Conifer. He took a job at Redfield (rifle scopes) and then at Heron ski lifts. When Heron was bought by the French giant Poma, John served as North American rep and Vice-President of Poma of America. He spent many happy years climbing around proposed future ski areas and ski lift sites. Poma of America moved its manufacturing and offices to Grand Junction, CO and John and Elizabeth moved to a log home he built on a ranch in Collbran in 1982. In 1986, he and Elizabeth were divorced and a year later John retired and moved to a new home on an adjoining ranch. His later years were filled with ranching, photographing historic barns for the local historical society, painting water colors of mountains, carving scale ship models, and spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He is survived by his sons, John Greenwood Jennings of Portland, OR (divorced), and Paul Macomber Jennings (Collbran) and wife, Gwendolyn Cole Jennings (daughter of Jim and Deane Cole of Collbran) and their children, Eli Francis Jennings living in Molina, CO (married to Rachael Liston Jennings of Glenwood Springs) and Sarin Mackenzie LoMascolo living in Sun Valley, ID (married to Bryan LoMascolo of Rome, NY), and Eli’s and Rachael’s children, Marshal Cole and Hazel Elizabeth. A family memorial is planned for this Spring at his ranch in Collbran, Colorado. Contributions can be made to HopeWest Hospice, 3090B North 12th St., Grand Junction, CO 81506.
