My grandpa played basketball when it was brand new!!
The first basketball star in the back row on the left is my grandpa, Thomas Anfin Cahalan. His father named him "Anfin" for the nice Norwegian man who came to the door the day he was born with a silver dollar...to start him off right in life, with a little savings. PDC stand for Prairie du Chien. That was the town he lived in, in Wisconsin.
Thomas Anfin Cahalan December 21, 1903 to February 7, 1972
My grandfather's grandfather came from a place in Ireland called Tipperary. His name was Patrick Cahalan. He and his wife, Ellen, lived in Iowa and had 17 children. All but one lived to adulthood.
My grandfather's mother was part German and part English. The English part came from Liverpool, as did the Beatles, the Titanic, and some good friends of mine. My grandfather never talked about his mother's heritages. He considered himself American, of Irish-Catholic descent. To him, the Irish and the Catholic and the American were inseparable.
My grandfather had a bad heart, possibly from rheumatic fever and his basketball days. He was also a smoker.He was 68 when he died.
Great-grandpa
The Irish-American
My Greek Grandpa
My uncle
My Dad
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