(Photo: submitted by Kevin McCaustlin
A celebration of life will be held in Moncton this weekend, to remember an adventurous and well liked man from Riverview.
38-year-old Jonathan Doucette was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident last month in China, where he was an English High school teacher.
Kevin McCaustlin has known Jonathan since they were just kids in Riverview , where they attended middle school.
He says Jon was an adventurer, who met a lot of people in his travels, “Him and I, for the past eight years, we have been travelling around Asia, and seeing a bunch of different countries. Thailand, Philippines, Myanmar and Malaysia. We’ve been all over the world for a guy from new Brunswick.”
This would have been Jon’s third year teaching in China. Prior to that he was in South Korea.
On December 24th, McCaustlin set up a Go Fund Me page, hoping to raise enough money to bring Jonathan home to New Brunswick. He was amazed with the kind words and donations coming from people in places around the world.
“He was very very travelled. He was well liked by just about everyone he met at times. Everyone wanting to celebrate the life of the man he was. It is really quite touching,” McCaustlin says.
Jon was cremated today, and McCaustlin hopes to bring him home to New Brunswick, “There is a Chinese New year holiday, I believe it starts around January 25th. I’ll be bringing him home. He’ll tour around maybe to a few of his favourite watering holes before he is put to rest with his mother and father in their family burial plot.”
There is a celebration of life planned on Saturday at Chris Rock Tavern starting at 3pm. MacCaustlin says there are also several celebrations of Jon being held in China as well.
Doucette was killed early on the morning of December 16th in Nansha, China where he was teaching.
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