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John A Litwinetz --Born August 6, 1944 - whenever, in Linden New Jersey. Son of John Litwinetz and Helen Litwinetz the youngest of their three children older brother passed Raymond and sister Barbara.

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Attended Lincoln Elementary School and Cranford High School in Cranford, New Jersey.Graduated in 1962.

Played basketball at Cranford HS, coached by Hubie Brown and Rollie Massimino. Was named to various all state teams and offered scholarships to various schools as well Bobby Knight offer to attend West Point.

John chose to attend General Motors Institute in Flint Michigan later named Kenslinger Institute on his fathers advice.

His received a Bachelors Degree in Industrial Engineering after utilizing General Motors alternate six week work/school program.

Was named one of finest athletics to attend the school.

Upon graduation, John worked at GM for a brief period, and then was drafted to serve in the US Army in the Vietnam war. He spent 1968-9 serving in the First Infantry 26 Division as an infantry soldier in various capacities including a machine gun ammunition carrier, working up to to mortar platoon sargent. He received a Bronze Star and various combat service medals seeing a far share of combat duty.

Upon being retured to the US, John was stationed at Fort Collins, Co, and attended Colorado State University studying psychology when discharged from the army.

John then returned to New Jersey to his previous job as an Industrial Engineer at the Linden GM Assembly plant.

John married Mary Elizabeth Bird on Oct 10 1970 and they moved to Dover New Hampshire, where he worked as an engineer.

In 1972 John and Mary purchased the Imperial House a victorian hotel in Old Orchard Beach, Maine and later bought the Staples Inn and renamed it to the Old Orchard Inn operating it as a restaurant for many years. The Inn was approved for the National Registry of Historical Places Historic Registry

The couple raised three children John, Nicholas, and Elizabeth in a house in Saco Maine on Ferry Road close to the Saco River and the ocean.

John moved to St Pete Beach, Florida in 1995 where he continued to reside until his death. He was an active fisherman for years.

John created several web sites and blogs, Main Blog and Start and had interests in Artificial Intelligence and Stable Diffusion.

In later years he created videos of political cartoons which were posted on his youtube channel Laughter which were viewed millions of times as well as creating his own cartoons.

John is survived by his wife, Mary,three children and seven grandchildren and his sister Barbara who lives in Villas, New Jersey.