Donald Lewis Regalia

Can't believe it's been five years since you left us. Seems like yesterday I was an 18 year old dating your sister-in-law and coming over to your and Sonnie's lovely home in Santa Rosa for BBQs, laughter and fund. So many Holidays spent with you as well. And wearing those USC colors while playing with my step brother Carl on his flag football team. Staying with you in your cabin up at Tahoe. Watching you show what true lover for a wife and family looks like. Listening to your stories of what...

I love you Dad, I miss you and Mom so much

Don was a co-worker with me in the 1970's during his career with Trombetta Distributors. Although we only knew each other at work I could see the care and passion he had for his family. He was always hardworking, positive and upbeat with his co-workers. He may have inherited this trait from his father Jim, who was also great to have in the office. I also remember his beautiful green Pontiac GTO. Gorgeous car.
My condolences to his family and all who will miss him.

Don Regalia was the quintessential quiet man. I don't think he ever missed one of our MCHS reunions. Photo below is Dick Tarrant, Colleen Cooper Bersaglieri and Don - 1997 Deer Park Villa. Don was a good man .. it was always a pleasure to see him to catch up. We were always going to get together for a bbq but life just got in the way. May he rejoice in heaven with his beloved Sonnie and all of our other classmates. Rest in peace Don. You were well loved.

My condolences to the Regalia family!
I went to school with his brother Peter at Saint Anselms and Marin Catholic High School in Marin County May he rest in peace!

Don and my wife Mary Oliva Mariani were all members of the Marin Catholic Class of 1957. His wife Sonnie was a class behind us. We have so many fond memories of our high school years and the fun that we had together. And even later as we were busy working and raising our own families, when we had a chance to be together it was like we had just hung out with each other during the previous week. Don was so many things, but most of all he was probably Gods model for just a really nice guy. He...

I too grew up in San Anselmo where I came to know Don and his Family. We were also friends in High School where I dubbed him ''one of the good guys''. He always chuckled over that. The thing I remember most, through all the years and all the Reunions, was his genuine interest in the rest of us. If he asked how we were then he truly wanted an answer. That trait always reflected to his genuineness and his appreciation of his classmates and his time with us. I never once heard a boastful remark...

Don was my brother in law, whom I first met when he was about to celebrate his 30th birthday. I loved visiting his home; he and Sonnie home was always clean, inviting, ordered and filled with music and laughter. Donya and Doreen was just little girls then, and they loved to be swung around in circles. Later we played flag football on teams with my step brother. He hadn't lost his love of the game. He had lots of boy toys - Dune Buggies and camping gear, and as Audi wrote in his Obit, they...