CHARLES "JACK" TINNEY

TINNEY
CHARLES "JACK"

Of Wynnewood, on May 1, 2018. Jack lived 88 years and, as he often said, managed to fit in everything he ever wanted to do, and then some. For 35 years, he was an award-winning photographer for the Philadelphia Bulletin, covering historic news events ranging from the Columbia Avenue riots of 1964 to presidential inaugurations. He photographed celebrities, national and foreign leaders, sports icons, astronauts, crime kingpins -- dead and alive -- for not only the Bulletin but publications including Time and Life. But among his best-known pictures, one recognized world-wide was of his pup sprawled on his back in front of a fan, under the title "One Cool Cookie." (He, nonetheless, adored cats.) He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, working as an aerial photographer at a base in South Korea regularly visited by Bed Check Charlie. Jack was an amateur boxer and gymnast, and was as at home in the waters of the Caribbean as the fish he photographed yearly for decades. He was a photography columnist and teacher, and wrote a novel about the doomed ship Morro Castle – a grim subject for a man who delighted in making friends and strangers laugh. He leaves behind immeasurable love in the hearts of wife Kathy; children Sandra, Michael, and Donna; grand-daughters Jacqueline, Kristina Marie, Jennifer Nicole, and Amanda; five great-grand-children, and sister Bernice. The family will celebrate his life privately.