| Parents: Education: Marriage: Occupation: |
Leo "Leon" Stimmler Louise Viola Smith Fordham University School of Social Work Graduated 1975 Kathleen "Kath" M. McClelland 1978 Brooklyn, New York City, New York Associate Executive Director of Chemical Dependency NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation |
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| Children: | Colin Michael | 1979 | |
| Chad | 1981 |
| Notes: | Leo was a Jesuit volunteer in Chile in his twenties. |
Leo Stimmler reminisces on his father to his sons: "Colin and Chad: "Tomorrow, Fri Sept 8 is my father's birthday. He was born in 1905 and died in 1964. His twin brother, Val, had polio at age two. In my father's honor, I will tell you one of my favorite stories about him. In early November, 1952 or 1953 Notre Dame was scheduled to play football against the University of Pennsylvania at Franklin Field. We had a big snowstorm the day before the game and a friend of Uncle Dick and Aunt Anita gave up their tickets to the game. We lived in Philadelphia in a section called Wissahickon and Uncle Dick and Aunt Anita lived in Roxborough which was about two miles away and at the top of a hill. Dick and Anita called our house and asked Leon, your grandfather, if he wanted to join them at the game. They offered dad two tickets. Dad said yes and invited Paul who declined saying he wanted to earn money shoveling sidewalks. I was about 9 or 10 years old at the time, next in line and accepted. The problem was how would dad get the tickets. It was getting close to game time when dad started walking up the long 2 mile hill from our home at 105 Rochelle Avenue in Wissahickon to Roxborough. Roxborough Memorial Hospital was about two blocks from Uncle Dick's house so he flagged down a police car and made up a story that he was having chest pains and thought he was having a heart attack. The police car drove him up the long, steep hill to the hospital and he told the police officers he could go in alone to the emergency room. As soon as the police car pulled away, my father turned around and walked the remaining two blocks to the Baffa home. We got the tickets and made it to the game on time. I still have the ticket stubs to that game. Johnny Latner was the star fullback for Notre Dame and my first sports hero. Just about two years after that date, dad had his first heart attack at age 49. I can't remember what hospital he was treated in but it may have been the same Roxborough Memorial Hospital (Paul will know for sure.). What irony!" Leo Stimmler reminisces on his career: "After graduating from the Fordham University School of Social Work 34 years ago--where I met Kathleen--I went to work for the New York City public hospital system. I spent my entire career in drug and alcohol addiction treatment and loved it. . . . I love working in addiction treatment because if you help someone to stop using a drug, their life changes overnight. It is a very gratifying field of work." |
| Ancestry: | The Hennessy Line |
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