Jared Mancinelli (1/9/80-10/14/24) passed away after a life long battle with severe chronic alcoholism, alone at his home in Boston, on the second Monday of October.

He was born in Lynn, MA to his mother Melody Mancinelli Henderson during a very brief marriage of her youth. She raised him for the most part as a single mother. Her parents, Raymond and Evelyn Mancinelli of Lynn, served as faithful dedicated, devoted loving grandparents, helping her to raise him.

Jared leaves behind two children, Tyler Mancinelli, 19 years old from Danvers; and Madison Rose Mancinelli, 14 years old, from Long Island.

He had a stepfather, Timothy Duggan of Brockton, MA who took great delight in him as a child, who entered Jared’s life at five y.o. Jared was an extremely gifted, talented, and amazing child. Tim recognized and appreciated that. Timothy did everything he could while Jared was in his twenties to help this young man he loved depart from the destructive path of alcoholism he was on, but to no avail.

Jared idolized his maternal grandfather “Papa”, Raymond, who treated him much like a son, and made similar efforts to help.

Jared exceled in school as a young child and was placed in all of the elementary school accelerated courses. At 8 years old he received a standing ovation at a piano recital playing “Fir Elise” by Beethoven. The piano teacher said she’d never worked with a more superior student in her career of teaching piano. She said he understood both the aesthetics of the melody and the technical components of written music, an ability she deemed as uncommon. Years later in high school his guitar teacher made similar comments.

He attended St. John’s prep high school, graduating in 1998. He had played soccer since he was 5 years old, and made the senior varsity team as a freshman. Due to his athletic abilities under coach John Aucone Jared became a local high school legend throughout those years. He was made an ALL AMERICAN athlete during his senior year, along with winning every single other soccer award offered in the New England states.

Jared had a huge heart for his fellow man. He was very charismatic, and sincere. He never refused to open his home to a friend, any friend, and treasured his friendships with all. He was loyal and generous to a fault. He was brilliant. In the later years of his life, he had developed an international lucrative software internet business called Power SMS Land with his beloved friend and business partner, Clem, in Nigeria. Jared was CEO and product designer. He thrived financially because of that, and gave most of his money away. He told others this is why he made it. He occasionally was known to bring a homeless person into his place and feed them, sometimes allowing them to sleep there. He talked to them about his faith. He himself had occasionally experienced homelessness as his disease had progressed, and his ability to empathize and care was enormous.

In 2022 he donated $50,000 to a nonprofit Christian organization that his Aunt Diane volunteered at. Its mission was to help women with unplanned pregnancies and newborns, providing free services to encourage them to have and keep their babies.

Jared had another very close friend, a wonderful man named Mou. He worked maintenance in Jared’s building. Jared paid for him to take a trip home to Algeria to visit his mother there, whom Mou hadn’t seen for years, in 2022. This was Jared’s heart. Jared had a sort of reverence for mothers, and treated his own with honor and respect until the end.

The staff at the St. Regis building in Boston where he lived out his final years all cried when they got news of his death, for he was very, very good to them. He continuously provided them with food.

In 2013, Jared had voluntarily spent a year in a live in Christian faith-based recovery program for addicted men. It led to his longest period of sobriety in his adult life.

He gave away astounding amounts of money to others, to both the deserving and undeserving- just exactly like he used to give away all his candy to his friends when he was a child. This included the church he loved, Great Rock Church in Danvers. He live- streamed both of their services every Sunday long after he was no longer able to attend in person, until his death.

Jared loved the Lord. He gave his life to Jesus in 2013 on the very morning that he committed to living at the church recovery house for year, and never waivered in his faith throughout his remaining 11 years of life here. Those years were often hellish, full of relapse, suffering and pain. The torment of the struggle between fallen flesh and Holy Spirit within him was fierce, and tormented him.

While he will be sorely missed by those who loved him most, they take comfort and joy in the knowledge that he is free, and finally home.

Visiting hours will be held on Sunday, October 27, 2024 from 2-6PM at the Solimine Funeral Home, 426 Broadway(Rt. 129), Lynn. His funeral will be held on Monday, October 28, at 10AM in the funeral home. Burial will follow at Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn.