MY DAD

Just the facts, as I remember them today.

Born February 12, 1920 in his Irish immigrant parent's home on Paradrome Street in the Mount Adams area of Cincinnati. The fourteenth and final child of that family. He went to Holy Cross Elementary School and Eden Park was his playground. He later attended St. Xavier Latin school for a year and graduated from Purcell High School. He married my mother at St. Elizabeth Church in Norwood on June 21, 1944. He joined the Army Air Corp and was sent to radio school in North Dakota. After completion of training, he was sent to Orlando Air Field. I was born at the air base hospital there in Orlando, Florida. His mother died while he was there. He was sent to Luzon in the Philippines as the US was establishing an air base there toward the end of World War II. After the war, he purchased the only house he ever owned. He worked for National Distillers before and after the war; R.K. LeBlond machine tool company, Aluminum Industries (later Perfect Circle Industries) and Clopay Corporation. He retired from Clopay. He became active in the Knights of Columbus and is credited with saving the Norwood Council. He was a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He was always active in the affairs of his parish church. He loved sports but never had the opportunity to play them. He had open heart bypass surgery but enjoyed good health most of his life. He had three children, nine grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren.