Some Things About Me

Timothy Lawrence Mallon- July 8, 1948 - November 12, 2019                         My brother and how I remember him My younger brother Timothy died yesterday, Tuesday, November 12, 2019 in San Diego. Although the doctors think is was from a disease called Mantle Cell Lymphoma (they were never sure), those that knew him well think that it might have been from a broken heart. Timothy Lawrence Mallon in 1970. He was 18 and had beautiful blue eyes. His best friend, our sister Jennifer, passed away in May of this year and our mother Zelma, with whom he was also very close, died in October of 2012. As he lived a very solitary life for most of the past 30 years, especially since he moved from Seattle to San Diego approximately 10 years ago, he was left with no one near to him that he was particularly close to. His only child, Sasha, was with him at the end, but she grew up on the East Coast and has her life ce...

Remembering my sister Jennifer- I was told this morning that she passed away last night. Me, our mother Zelma, Jennifer and Tim on Mom's 75th birthday, July 16, 1991. It was always “Jennifer”, as our mother insisted that we not call her Jen or Jenny or anything else, always Jennifer. As I remember it- It was either 1969 or 1970 and the family was living in Monterey Park, near Los Angeles. At 18, Jennifer had just returned from a school trip to Europe where she had felt unnaturally fatigued and had also noticed a lump on her neck. Our mother had taken her to the doctor’s for testing and on a Friday afternoon they went back to review the results. They were told that the tests showed that Jennifer had something called “Hodgkin’s Disease”. The doctor told her that he did not know much about this condition, but that he had made an appointment for her at White Memorial Hospital the following Monday where they had specialists that could better discuss treatmen...