John Kelly Jeffers IV

John Kelly Jeffers, IV was born in Muncie Indiana on July 7, 1971 and passed away in Port Charlotte, Florida on June 21, 2025.

John graduated in 1989 from Warsaw High School in Warsaw, Indiana and later went to art school at Indiana University. He obtained an optician's license and worked at the Walmart Vision Center in Punta Gorda, Florida for 14 years. John was currently working on a degree in Medical Management.

Boy Scouts of America, ski club, and playing the drums in the school band were John’s high school passions. He won many solo and ensemble awards on the drums.

After high school John moved to Florida and worked many years with his father at his interior design business. He loved the sunshine! John was an avid toy collector, extremely knowledgeable about value and the qualities that make an item rare. He enjoyed collecting toys from the 1970s most of all.

If you’ve ever heard the Tom Petty song “I Won’t Back Down” and you knew John well, you’d understand why it is so descriptive of the boy and the man who had a will of steel that translated into his many achievements. If John decided he was going to do something, he did it, and he did it as perfectly as possible. He was a good friend and much admired, often doing small and large thoughtful acts for others . He will be missed terribly by all who knew him.

John is survived by his daughter, Lonnie Jeffers, his mother, Sheila Turner, his brother, Adam Jeffers, his uncle Jerry Jeffers, his uncle Monte Nicholson, and several cousins.

He was preceded in death by his father, John Jeffers ,III, his paternal grandfather, John Jeffers, Jr. his paternal grandmother, Lois Jeffers, maternal grandfather, Loren Nicholson, maternal grandmother, Betty Nicholson, and several aunts and uncles.

A celebration of life will be held Sunday, July 20, 2025 at Holy Trinity Event Center located at 24411 Rampart Blvd, Port Charlotte, FL, at 2:00 P.M.