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Charles T. Doyle, 96, of Cedar Bonnet Island, NJ, crossed over on February 25th, 2005. He was Tod to his friends and Big Dad to his family, all five children, ten grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren�and their spouses and life partners, who enjoyed his wit and quickness of mind as much as he enjoyed theirs.

Tod was born in Somerton, Pennsylvania to Charles S. Doyle and Mary Elizabeth Staake Doyle. He married Jean C. O�Brien on November 29, 1928. They lived a full and happy life together, as in love at Jean�s death in 1981 as they were in 1928.

Both Tod and Jean were early union organizers in the textile industry. Later Tod organized and served as the first president of the Rohm & Haas� CIO Union Local 88 in Bristol, Pennsylvania. He also trained hunting dogs. Tod will be remembered as an usher at St. Thomas RC Church in Surf City, while his Golden Retriever, Hammer, waited patiently outside to greet everyone after Mass.

A Celebration of Life will be held at Our Lady of Grace RC Church, Penndel, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, March 2nd, at ten o�clock. Following his being laid to rest with Jean in Resurrection Cemetery, family and friends are invited to meet at The Knights of Columbus, in Levittown, to share stories of this man. They are legion and legendary, as was he.

God bless Big Dad, RIP.

Ar dheis D� go raibh a anam.

(May he rest in Peace)

Lovely, Molly. Amen.

We put that on the little Holy Cards that we had made after
our own parents passed. I love the Irish way of making the cards with a photo on them. It was tough to find someone to do it in the States, but I finally found a graphic artist who, for an arm and a leg, was able to put it all together. I wasn't equipped at the time---now I could do it myself, but that's the way. We put the "Breastplate of St. Patrick" on the back of Dad's. He loved that, and I know it made him happy. There are several different versions unfortunately. It depends on the translator.

Slan,
Mary Ellen
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