Charles O'Malley

Dear Ellen, Shiva and Tim, So many fond family memories of your Husband and Dad, Uncle Charlie to me! Pinecrest in particular was so special. I know that he and my Dad (Daddy Bill) were just such good friends and it makes thinking of the two of them up in heaven playing chess together warm my heart. They had an entire multi game tournament at the Rod and Gun club! I don't know what the kids were doing, mainly swimming and asking for ice cream money! Love to all of you, Uncle Charlie made...

In the 50´s Charlie and I were classmates at Saint Patrick´s Seminary in Menlo Park, CA. His family had just moved west from Chicago, and he loved to "push" the envelope in that structured environment. Once during the tedious lectures on Scholastic theology, he managed to keep up with the World Series with a portable radio hidden under his cassock and an earbud attached to his ear through a wire running through his sleeve. Charlie was the only student fully alert and smiling during those...