Sent to our society from a California resident ... this obituary -
from the Los Angeles Times, November 13, 2005
" CONNELLY, Dr. Victor Lamar
Farmer, softball pitcher, teacher, dentist, and encourager, died Oct. 15, 2005, in Auburn, NY. He was 96. Dr. Connelly was born Nov. 26, 1908, on a farm in Ney, Ohio. He worked at odd jobs through Ohio Northern College, including door-to-door magazine and refrigerator sales.
During the Depression, he pitched for professional fastpitch softball teams. In winters, he taught in a one-room school house and eventually in high school.
In 1944, he earned a University of Oregon dentistry degree, moving in 1947 to Santa Monica, California where he practiced for 36 years and had many celebrities as patients. He belonged to the Riviera Gold and Country Club for a half-century.
His most significant relationship after divorcing wife, Gertrude Warren Connelly of Portland, was with Velda Cruz, of West Los Angeles between 1968 until her death in 2004.
Dr. Connelly was known for encouraging the best in people. In 1993, he urged one young lawyer, Jeffery Hughes, to pioneer a client-friendly law practice in Santa Monica, the Legal Grind. Mr. Hughes tells the story in Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul."
Surviving are his daughter and son-in-law, Linda Casey Weaver and Glenn David Weaver of Santa Rosa Beach, FL; his son and daughter-in-law, David Warren Connelly and Kathleen Connelly, of Auburn, NY, and their three year old child, Patrick.
A memorial service for Dr. Connelly is at 2 p.m. Saturday, November 19, at the Santa Monica Friends Meeting House, 1440 Harvard Street."
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