John Clinton Maddock

Palm Beach Gardens - John Clinton Maddock passed away peacefully on Monday, November 8, 2021 in Palm Beach Gardens, FL at the age of 87. John was born in St. Albans, NY to Clinton and Grace Dunn-Maddock on January 31, 1934. John grew up in the presence of five siblings: Valerie, George, Joseph, Mary Rose and Eileen. He attended St. Paschal Baylon Grade School, St. Albans, Chaminade High School, Mineola and Hofstra University (Hempstead, NY).

John was dedicated to his wife and family. Some of his life's highlights were weightlifting in his youth, playing the trumpet, and he joined the Navy as an Electronics Technician. After he served in the Navy, he met his wife at Yorkville's Jaeger House and saw her across the room and asked her to dance. Shortly after marrying Anna Marie, he went to work for the government working on the DEW line. After his service for the government, he started work as an electrical engineer and held several patents including one for warehouse automation.

Predeceased by his wife Anna Marie and daughter Eileen, John is survived by his brother Joe, seven children: Patricia Durante, Clint Maddock, George Maddock, Maureen Ritter, Kathleen Neely, Grace Maddock, Gerry Maddock; 14 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.


Anna Marie (Brady) Maddock

Anna Marie Maddock of Palm Beach Gardens died on 20th of February 2021, surrounded by her husband and family.  She was 84.

Anna was born in Tullywatha (Bailieboro), County Cavan on the 20th of December 1936, the first and only daughter of a farmer named John J. Brady and Ellen B. (Smith) Brady.  Anna was protected by and the protecter of three brothers in her rural farm home - Terrence, James and Tom.

She left Ireland for Manhattan as a teen, where she landed a job as a Telephone Operator and would walk to the Jaeger House in Yorkville to dance to Irish music wth her girlfriends at Jaeger House which is where she met John C. Maddock who was entrepreneurial electronic technician who had served in the U.S. Navy.

On the 8th of August 1959, At 22 years old she married John (25), just as he was heading to the Arctic DEW-line to work on radar systems for the Defense Department.  And Anna went about buying a house and making a home in Deer Park, Long Island.  Anna began to raise a family of eight children, at one point she had six children at or under the age of five.  A Herculean task for a lady that stood maybe 5’2”.

Anna had dreams of being a dancer in the Radio City Rockettes, but at her height it was not to be.  As a child she wanted to sing in the church choir like her cousin Terrence, but alas she was off-key.  What she did have however was a heart of gold, her wonderful smile and bright blue eyes, a sense of humor and tremendous perseverance.

As John built one company after another, and moved up and down the East Coast from NY to Rockville (MD), to Ridgefield (CT), to  Coral Springs (FL) and Canton (OH).  Anna had the job of settling the children and ensuring their educations and social schedules.  Always with a smile and carefree ease, she danced into peoples hearts and minds of the PTA and neighborhood clubs.

Predeceased by her daughter Eileen Strong, Anna is survived by seven children, Patricia and husband Vince Durante, Clinton Maddock and wife Sue, George Maddock and wife Naoko, Maureen Maddock-Ritter, Kathleen and husband Larry Neely, Grace Maddock and Gerald Maddock and wife Mauna;  grandchildren: Christopher Durante, Kaitlin Durante, Ben Maddock, Sam Maddock, Bryan Ritter, Nikki Ritter, Jennifer Hardardt and husband John Hardardt and great-grandchild Jackson Hardardt.

John and his bride Anna Marie, November 2020

John and his bride John and his bride Anna Marie, November 2020

JOHN CLINTON MADDOCK

Service

KOREA

US NAVY,

ET2

Resting Place

Mementos

Tributes

Word Cloud

undefined

Milestones

Mementos

Historical Documents

Veteran programs and services

More VA resources

Get VA updates

In crisis? Get help now

Contact us