August 31, 1937 – February 3, 2025
Jack Eugene Giguere, beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend, died on February 3, 2025, under the care of hospice.
Jack was born in Flint, Michigan, on August 31, 1937, the son of Everett and Noreen Giguere. He was a graduate of Albion College and Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC., and was proud to be the holder of bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. He married Joyce Diane Hube, the love of his life, and they had a son, Joel, and a daughter, Noelle. During his ministerial career, he served five churches and, at two of those churches, assisted the congregations in the building of new sanctuary buildings. Jack also served as a district superintendent of the United Methodist Church’s Ann Arbor district in Michigan.
Jack was pastor emeritus of the Grosse Pointe United Methodist Church, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and following retirement from that church, he became the Teaching Pastor at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in Easton, Maryland, where his classes were filmed and put on disk and on the internet. During the summer, he taught an adult Sunday School Class at the Bay View Association of the United Methodist Church in Northern Michigan, where the Giguere’s have a summer home. He also served on the Bay View Board of Trustees. For five years, Jack was the Protestant Chaplain on Holland American Line’s four-month Grand World Cruise. The services he conducted and the classes he taught on the ship attracted many of differing faiths as well as those of no faith. Jack’s alma mater, Albion College, honored him with a doctor of divinity degree in 1990. Fifty years following his graduation from Wesley Theological Seminary the school honored Jack with a dinner and the announcement of a Scholarship in his name.
Jack loved music, the piano being his instrument, the visual arts, and the theater. As an artist, Jack was represented in galleries in Maryland and Northern Michigan. He was the featured artist for Easton, Maryland Festival of Trees and the master painting he created for the Festival hangs in the Hospice House of Talbot County in Easton, Maryland. For five years his art was featured once a year on the cover of The Tidewater Times, a regional magazine in Maryland. The Bay View Association in Michigan has placed a number of his works in their public buildings. Jack also loved to make bread.
Jack said if he had an epitaph, he would like it to read: “He died, but he is not dead. His life is hidden in Christ.”
He is survived by his wife, Joyce of Pittsburgh, PA, son Joel (Rachael Class-Giguere) of Wells River, VT, and daughter Noelle (David Kotler) of Pittsburgh, PA. He had two grandsons: Jack Porter Giguere and Alexander Julian Giguere.
In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations to The Jack Giguere Scholarship Fund (choose the Jack Giguere Endowed Scholarship Fund from the drop-down menu) and The Bay View Association of the United Methodist Church.
Private Funeral Arrangements are under the direction of Boylan Glenn-Kildoo Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Inc.
*Giguere, Jack (Joyce) – [(RE) T 1959; F 1962; RE 1999] Baltimore: Brooklyn (assoc) (Baltimore Conf) 1959; Clarkston (assoc) 1962; Bad Axe 1965; Flushing 1971; Livonia: Newburg 1980; Ann Arbor District Superintendent 1984; Grosse Pointe 1989; Retired 1999.
Last Updated on February 10, 2025