Posted on: Tuesday, June 21, 2005

OBITUARIES
Jay Magin, memorial's security director

Advertiser Staff

John C. "Jay" Magin, acting head of security at the USS Missouri Memorial and an active community volunteer, died Wednesday after a brief illness. He was 68.

Magin, of 'Aiea, had been acting director of security at the battleship memorial in Pearl Harbor since last year.

A native of Long Island, N.Y., Magin moved to Hawai'i with his wife, Judy, in 1989 and worked for a communications company, Intellect, in Mililani before leaving to start a medical diagnostics company.

Magin was a member of the Kailua Elks Lodge 2230, an instructor in Lessons in Firearms Education (L.I.F.E.), a member of the Hawaii Rifle Association and a member of the Battleship Missouri Amateur Radio Club.

He also was active in the American Red Cross' Human Animal Bond program at Tripler Army Medical Center, where he and his wife would take their dogs and cat to the hospital patients for pet therapy.

He is survived by his wife of 43 years, Judy; a daughter, Janis; a son, John; a brother, James; a sister, Mary Ann Potito; and several nieces and nephews.

A service and scattering of the ashes will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday at Calvary-by-the-Sea Lutheran Church.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the church's endowment fund, the American Red Cross bond program or Good Bears of The World, Aloha Den.