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- excerpt of the McCorkell family notes, by Rev. Edmund McCorkell, source www.ramarahistoryonline.net (circa1971)
John McCorkell is like his brother in stature and like him a war veteran. He lives in California, where after experimenting with the trucking business has taken up what might be called his family?s profession, serving the public by covering them with Prudential Insurance. His father would be proud of that and also his uncle Pat Fahey, who during his life made an enviable record as an insurance salesman and director with the Prudential Company. John Mccorkell married June Herman and returning the family tradition has a fairly large family of seven. They are--Thomas, Karen, Patricia, Steven, David, Julie and James. John packed them all in a station wagon and drove them over the mountains to his brother Ed?s marriage in Chicago where I saw their smiling faces at the end of June 1964. Once, if not twice before that date, he made a similar safari to St. Paul to show his growing family where their father had cavorted about as a boy. St. Paul indeed in a kind of Mecca, not only for the McCorkells born there, but for their relatives many of them especially the younger generation, who have been lucky enough to test the hospitality of the old home on Simpson Street. Vince McCorkell died on January 18, 1957. He was always a fervent Catholic. At the funeral the pastor, Father Casey, told me that Vince was the best parishioner he had
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