September 18, 1986
John P. Zeck
Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in Immaculate Conception Church for John P. Zeck, 38, of 4327 Lake Washington Blvd., Kirkland, Wash., formerly of Youngstown, who died of a heart attack Thursday evening in Kirkland.
Mr. Zeck was born April 23, 1948, in Youngstown, a son of George B. and Eleanor Cullinan Zeck, moving to Portland, Ore., in 1972 and to Kirkland in 1985.
He had been an accountant and sales distributor for Dell Publishing Co. in Portland and Conde-Nast Publishing Co. in Kirkland for the past year. He was a graduate of Immaculate Conception School and in 1966 graduated from Ursuline High School. He also received a bachelor's degree from Youngstown State University and a master's degree in accounting from the University of Oregon.
He leaves his mother of Youngstown; two sisters, Mrs. Rosemary Prine of Redmond, Wash., and Mrs. Mary Margaret Nemeth of Boardman; two brothers, William of Youngstown and George B. Jr. of Dayton.
Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at the McVean & Hughes Funeral Home.
The family requests material tributes take the form of contributions to the American Heart Association.
Edward Cisek
Jack Zeck was one of my best friends from the time I met him at Immaculate Conception School until his death. We played a lot of basketball together over the years including on the Immaculate Conception team. Jack loved sports. We watched the Youngstown Pequins play basketball, the Cleveland Indians play baseball and Ohio State play football. He loved to watch Ursuline High School football and basketball. Zeck enjoyed "Soul Music" particularly the Temptations. He taught me their dance steps once. As we got older, he taught me the joy of Jimmy Buffett music.
After high school graduation, he came to visit me at Ohio State U many times. In turn, when I came to Youngstown, we would get together. Marty Garchar was one of our close companions. When Jack graduated from Youngstown State U, Marty Garchar helped him get a job in Portland with Dell Publishing. Jack liked Portand a lot, and I had fun with him many times there. He often went to the Oregon coast and mountains. About the time he moved to Seattle ( Kirkland), I moved to Idaho. We visited each other more often then. He thought Idaho was beautiful. I was really impressed that he got a Masters Degree in Accounting while he worked full time.
When he died after playing raquetball, I was shocked. I literally cried all night while I wrote his mother about what a great son she had raised. Marty and I had hoped to meet up with him at our UHS 20th reunion, but he died before the event.
John Zeck was a loyal, dependable friend. I still miss him. I cannot go through Portand or Seattle without thinking of him.
This is a picture of the two of us from the summer of 1976 at Mount Hood, Oregon.
Priscilla Beck
John was one of the sweetest and most courteous boys going to school with at Immacuate Conception. From a great East side family. He always had a smile for everyone. Taken way too soon. RIP... Priscilla
Timothy Vesy
Jack and I were friends that grew with classes at Ursuline and football at Rayen field. We became better friends with our meetings at Toni's, iggloo and other establishments that encouraged us to think about life over a cold one. Work at Safeway and putting up with Mel
Joseph Marinelli
Hi Eddie, Priscilla and Tim. Hope you are all doing well. I enjoyed reading all your comments about Jack.As was previously said by all so nicely, he was a good and loyal friend always willing to help with a smile. We met at UHS and Jack ,Marty, myself and a few others were part of a group who were always going places together like visiting Eddie at OSU . May Jack and all our deceased classmates rest in peace .