Jason “JJ” Redmond, age 82, passed away on September 15, 2024. Born January 6, 1942, in Mt. Carmel, KY to Carl and Francis Eula (Jordan) Redmond, he spent the first half of his childhood on a farm in Kentucky before moving to Michigan. A graduate of Taylor High School, he attended Murray State University (only a college then) for 2 years before he decided he was needed in the U.S. Army, and for the next 3 years, Uncle Sam introduced him to the jungles of Vietnam and southeast Asia, where he led 17 Special Ops missions and lost only one man, the man who took a bullet in his place. JJ served as military police stateside and received marksman and other awards.
After the Army, he returned to Michigan and took up his hammer to work in construction, which took him all over the United States, becoming a foreman and later Field Superintendent, running jobs valued at over 200 million dollars building nuclear powerhouses, including Detroit Edison; the steel galvanizing plant for Great Lakes Steel; Sea World; Epcot Center’s Mexican Pavillion and Odyssey Restaurant for Disney and many others over his 43-year career in construction.
In 1998 he met and married his wife, Deborah, relocating to Princeton in 2006. He spent the remainder of his life on the farm enjoying what he loved most. . .his wife, the woods and wildlife, the farm and gardening.
JJ was a Master Mason, a 32 degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a past patron of The Order of the Eastern Star. A lifelong Baptist, he attended Ogden Memorial United Methodist Church while his wife was organist and pianist there, and later Union Grove Baptist Church.
JJ is survived by his wife, four daughters, Paula, Deanna (Tim), Crystal, and Courtney of Michigan; one son, Blake (Kristen) of Hopkinsville; one grandson, Steven of Michigan; three granddaughters, Mia, Piper and Ivy of Hopkinsville; and one brother.
There will be no services. JJ wanted cremation and to have his ashes spread on the farm he loved.
