Some Things About Me

 My comments at the reception First, I want to say that I am honored that my niece, Aleksandra, ask me to represent her father, my brother, here today.   My brother Tim died almost 2 years ago in November from something the doctors called Mantle Cell Lymphoma (they were never sure), but those that knew him well think that it might have been from a broken heart. Our mother Zelma, with whom he was very close had died a few years before and his best friend, our sister Jennifer, had passed away 6 months earlier.   For most of his life Tim was an outwardly happy person with lots of friends and interests. We grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of Monterey Park. Later Tim attended Washington State University where he was the manager of the school football team. From there he moved to Seattle where he lived for most of his years as an adult. During his life he held a variety of interesting jobs, from United Airlines Cabin Attendant to pizza store owner and even as a CPA t...

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...

JAN 13 2014 Wow, first cousin Mary Jo married 50 years??? My first memories of Mary Jo are from when my mother Zelma Coy Mallon, father Larry and brother and sister Timothy and Jennifer would make the long car trip, almost every summer during the ’50’s and early ‘60’s, from Monterey Park, California to Zelma’s hometown of Dexter, Michigan. Dexter was so different from Southern California that I always looked forward to the adventure. I particularly enjoyed my cousins. Our Uncle Lavern and Aunt Merl’s children were all adults by then, but were always kind and we spent a good deal of time with Ed Coy, and some with his brother Dean, “helping” on their farms. Uncle Ashley and Aunt Jo’s children, Chuck, Dick and Mary Jo were closer to our ages and were always a lot of fun to be with. Mary Jo was the tolerant older sister who could drive before the rest of it. She was good to the younger kids and was especially valued because she could be trusted not to tattle to adults about som...

OCT 23 2013 On October 17, 2013 the Boulder YWCA presented their annual dance competition, Dancing with the Boulder Stars, at Boulder’s venerable auditorium, the Boulder Theatre. Cindy Schlager, representing Wright Kingdom Real Estate as their Relocation Director, won the competition doing the Lindy Hop to “Hit the Road Jack”. See  here  for her performance. 

My mother,  OCT 30 2012 July 16, 1916 – October 20, 2012 Zelma, whose name came from the nurse who attended her home birth, was born on a Dexter, Michigan farm in 1916. She grew up there and remained very much a “farm girl” all of her life. She had a very strong concept of what is right and wrong. As my brother Tim has said many times, “she did not have a mean bone in her body, “but she could be opinioned and argumentative. Her fondest wish in life was to become a mother. Tim, my sister Jennifer and I agree she was a good mom who always put our welfare above all else in her life. Born in 1916!  Take a moment to consider all the things that occurred in her lifetime. -World War I and II as well as all the conflicts since. -The common use of automobiles, airplanes, television, cell phones and computers. -Nuclear power and weapons, organ transplants and advance treatments for cancer and other diseases. My mother remembered when her house first got electricit...

MAY 12 2012 George H. Mallon The annual Bolder Boulder 10K race will be run through town on Memorial Day, May 28, 2012. This year, as I have done a number of times in the past, I will be participating. In addition to your numbered bib, which you wear pinned to the front of your shirt, you are given the option of placing another treated sheet of paper on your back with the information about some person “I’m running in honor of………” This year I will be honoring my great-uncle, George H. Mallon. He was the brother of my Grandmother Isabela and distinguished himself in France in World War I. Below see his story which I believe was clipped out of a magazine. And HERE   also is an article written January 20, 2017  in the New Ulm, MN The Journa l   by historian Steven Chicoine about the life of George Mallon. 2012 Bolder Boulder 10K Memorial Day