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Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 25, for Jack Dove, a well-known Pleasanton community activist and former executive with the old Montgomery Ward department store company who died last Wednesday in his home at Ridge View Commons. He was 89.
Mr. Dove served on city and civic commissions and committees after he and his late wife Polly moved here in 1986. He may be best remembered for his days sitting in the “adjunct” City Hall, a one room wooden building that long sat at the edge of Lions Wayside Park, where he and his close friend, the late Roger McLain, would meet with civic leaders and sometimes just those waiting for the bus to discuss municipal, state and national issues.
Over the years, Mr. Dove became a credible resource on Pleasanton politics and politicians and was welcomed in almost every office without an appointment, which he seldom made.
Born May 25, 1923, he met his future wife at the Aberdeen Proving Ground medical center in Maryland, where he was a soldier recovering from pneumonia. The couple moved to Bethlehem, Pa., where he completed his college degree in chemical engineering at Lehigh University. His career took his family to Itasca and Olympia Fields, near Chicago; Louisville, Ky.; overseas to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England; and Danville, San Mateo, and Fullerton here in California. They lived in Alamo before moving to Pleasanton.
The memorial service has been scheduled on what would have been his 90th birthday at Lynnewood Methodist Church in Pleasanton, where he was a member.
Jack will be missed! He always wanted the best for Pleasanton and was very active in community service. Jack missed his Polly so much after she passed. He was ready to join her again. God Bless you Jack.
I am so sorry to hear this. I loved to hear the stories Jack told about his life, especially with Polly.
He was smart, engaging and always thinking of others. I will miss our chats. He always had something to say about how to improve what we were doing. It’s was great to hear someone so reflective about the city and so solution driven. Thank you Jack for being the epitome of a great husband, friend and citizen.
Jack and his family were our neighbors in Olympia Fields, and I went to high school with his daughter. It was great to reconnect many years later out here in Pleasanton and discover we shared common interest in senior housing and services. Jack and Polly, i will miss you both. You helped make Pleasanton a great place for people of all ages. Thank you for your service.
Jack was a great friend and mentor who understood what public service and working in the best interest of the community is all about. Jack was the first person to ask me to run for public office back in 2001 and I will never forget him. Rest in peace old friend.
Jack Dove was a gentleman and a contributor. He was an outstanding Planning Commissioner, and a font of ideas for improving the City of Pleasanton. I will miss him for his informed activism and kind spirit.
Jack was a great friend of our schools, and such a role model for continued public service. I will miss our breakfast conversations, Jack, and your feisty but good-hearted nature.
Jack was a wonderful man and I’ll always remember his stories. He was so full of information and knowledge about Pleasanton and was always willing to share. He helped guide me along on my first city committee 17 years ago and I’ll alway consider him one of my key mentors. He will be missed.
Jack Dove was truly a community treasure. Pleasanton will miss his wisdom and advice. Thanks for your service Jack.
I’m saddened to hear of Jack’s passing. He was a good friend. I always enjoyed talking with him about whatever was on our minds. Perhaps the best we can do to honor this great man is to incorporate in our own lives, even in just a small way, the principles and character he had in his.
So sorry to read of Jack’s passing. I worked with him some years ago at the Alameda County Fairgrounds. I always enjoyed the time I spent with him.
Jack Dove was one of the finest gentleman I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. His kind and gentle heart was a blessing to the community of Pleasanton for many many years.
Jack was an aggressive Senior Ombudsman for the years I knew him, persistent with his intended goals. He lobbied for Senior causes, community causes and personal causes with equal passion. His neighbors looked to him for information and encouragement. He will be missed, just as his Polly has been missed. RIP–I am sure they are enjoying the reunion…
Jack and Polly have been family friends for nearly 60 years….he will be so very missed. Love you Jack and Polly…thank you for your sweet spirit! I pray you both are once again reunited in God’s heavenly realms!
WHAT GREAT COMMENTS ABOUT JACK !!!!!! AS MANY OF YOU HAVE WRITTEN HE WASA REAL PLEASANTON CHEER LEADER. HE WAS INTERESTED IN EVERYTHING THAT MADE THE TOWN TICK AND HE WOULD TELL YOU WHY. THERE ARE ONLY A FEW PEOPLE LIKE MR DOVE IN ANY TOWN…….WE WERE LUCKY.
HE AND I DID NOT AGREE WITH OTHER ALL THE TIME, BUT SPENT MANY HOURS TALKING ABOUT THE PROS AND CONS OF AN ISSUE OVER DINNER AT RIDGEVIEW COMMONS.
I’M SORRY THAT I WILL NOT BE AT HIS MEMORIAL SERVICE…BLESSINGS JACK
Jack was one of the first residents I met when I started working for the City of Pleasanton 15 years ago. I knew if the other residents were even 1/2 as special as Jack I had chosen the right place to work.
Over the past 15 years I got to know Jack and enjoyed seeing and visiting with him and discussing his various plans to make Pleasanton a better place to live and work.
I will miss him.