James Creighton Main, CTC, a 40 year resident of Foster City, died June 14, 2026, after a long illness. His one brother Christopher Avery Main (Sara) of Shaker Heights, Ohio, two nieces, Laura Avery Webster (Derek) and Mary Anne Grimwade (Rob) both of Chardon, Ohio, survive him, along with their children Violet and Logan Webster and Julia, Emily and Charles Grimwade. He was predeceased by his beloved wife Claudette LaMothe Main, his father James Avery Main, his birth-mother Rebecca Horr Main, and his loving “adopted” mother, Marion Morris Main.
After graduating from Governor Dummer Academy in 1958(now The Governor’s Academy) in Byfield, Massachusetts, and attending Denison University in Granville, Ohio, Jim served in the U.S. Navy as a Personnelman with VS-33 on board the USS Bennington during the mid ‘60’s and was proud of his affiliation with the USS Bennington Reunion Association in later years.
A Life Member of the Travel Institute of Wellesley, MA, having earned his certification in 1986, Jim retired after 31 years with Japan Airlines in 2000 having been involved with Customer Contact Training and Sales Management in St. Louis, New York Denver and San Francisco. He had been 36 years in the travel industry. He was a Past President of several local organizations, Skal International San Francisco an organization of Travel and Tourism Professionals of which he was a Life Member, the Foreign Travel Club of San Francisco, the JAL Federal Credit Union in Burlingame (now SkyOne FCU), and the Treasure Isle Homeowners Association of Foster City. In the mid 1980s he devoted many hours to the Denver Sister Cities programs, active in forming the Denver-Kunming, China relationship, and he was Vice President of the Denver-Takayama, Japan Sister Cities Program. He sat on the Boards of the Rocky Mountain, the San Francisco and the San Jose Chapters of the Pacific Area Travel Association. He participated in the Foster City CERT program for many years. He remained active with the JAL Alumni Club of San Francisco and served on its board of directors. A convert to Catholicism in 1990, he was a lector and Eucharistic minister at our Lady of Angels Church in Burlingame, where he and Claudette had married in 1977, and a lector on the TV Mass for the San Francisco Archdiocese.
A memorial mass will be celebrated at Our Lady of Angels Church, Burlingame July 3, 2026 at 10 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Capuchin Franciscans Western Province, in Burlingame, CA.
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