Jon S. Roth

JONATHAN SCOTT ROTH, beloved father, son and brother, departed this life on July 8th, 2025, aged 65 years and six months. He leaves behind his beloved daughter Jessica Wolf, son-in-law James Wolf, his mother Jane Roth and brother Andrew Roth, along with his sister-in-law Jaye Roth and his Aunt Marion Somerstein. While we mourn his loss, we are comforted in the knowledge that he has now joined to be with his dearly departed father, Robert Roth.  

Jonathan’s love and generosity to family and friends all around him will be felt in all of our hearts for the rest of our lives. He was a giant of a man in his kindness, gentleness and dedication to everyone he loved. There was nothing he would not do for any of us if we asked, and to his last moment and last measure of his strength, he passed away on in his attempts to help another friend, which is exactly what we all have come to expect from him.

Jonathan lived a life of service to others. After battling his own formidable demons, he turned his attention to all things great and good in this world. He served in the Army and afterwards sought love and reconciliation from everywhere he could find it. He never stopped hoping, striving to make amends, looking for that way to do just a little bit better every day of his life.

He found comfort and peace in his final years tending the land and properties of his friend Willy Ryan, whom he also traveled with extensively for more than a decade. And he made friends on that land in the gently rolling hills of Missouri with everyone else he worked with, strengthening everyone with his infectious laughter, irreverent wink and smile and jokes so bad you had to laugh at them anyway.

Jonathan, we will love and miss you forever, but we also know that someday, we will see you again. Until that blessed day, good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

You, who have demonstrated to me great and severe troubles, shall resurrect me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth. You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side! I will also praise you with the harp, even your truth, O my God: to you will I sing with the harp, O Set-apart One of Israel!  

(Psalm 71:20-22 – personal translation)