8Our chum, Karl Holmberg sends this eBay item to us, a great photo of Shirly Hassau. I have a personal connection to her daughter Marilyn now Lynn McCormick who opened her home to an impromptu gathering on the occasion of my father Earl DeWitt suddenly passing away of a heart attack in 1977. Alone for a moment in her kitchen she told me she had only seen her father two or three times as a child. She was raised by the Salvation Army, she said. She told me how sorry she was for my loss, and said it was a huge loss for AA, too. Her husband was also a member, and so was my father who with a partner opened the first Halfway House for alcoholics in Washington State.
Thanks Karl!
— David DeWitt
Here is young Marylyn, sent by Karl! When I met her as an adult she looked very much like Rosemary, Errol’s sister.
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Here is a pic of both, mother and daughter.
Does that mean, Errol visited her 2-3 times, David?
@David, shangheinz ask a good Q – is this her reference when saying she only seen her dad 2 -3 times – Errol?
It may be, it wasn’t the kind of moment that I would have thought to ask her.
Shirley looks very pretty in this article, to me akin to Norma Jean, who I believe may have roamed the same Hollywood Boulevard neighborhood and haunts as Shirley and Henry.
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