John “Bubba” Spinale of Peabody died on June 15, 2026 with family and friends beside him. He was 72. His family will celebrate his Mass on Friday, October 16.
He was born in Boston and raised in Malden by the late Joseph and Shirley (Moran) Spinale, attended Cheverus Catholic School and graduated from Northeast Regional Vocational in 1972, where he played football and hockey and learned metal fabrication. He worked 46 years as a sheet metal mechanic, almost to the end, through more than 12 years of treatment for polycythemia vera, a rare blood disease he rarely complained about. He loved car racing and his time at Newfound Lake, N.H., and belonged to the Malden/Medford Elks for 41 years.
He leaves his son, John, and his wife Crystal of Gloucester; his brothers, Frank of Naples, Fla. and New Hampshire, and Steven of Melrose; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Five brothers, Joseph, Richard, James, Timothy and Ted, died before him.
A Mass is Friday, October 16 at 11 a.m. at Sacred Hearts Church, Malden, followed by a celebration of life at Anthony’s of Malden.
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