[PRCo] Fwd: Carle H. Salley 1927-2009

[Schneider Fred]

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> From: bergen2554 at webtv.net (Jerry Groh)
> Date: August 29, 2009 11:10:00 AM EDT
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> Subject: Carle H. Salley  1927-2009
>
> This is to notify everyone of the passing of a very good almost  
> lifelong
> friend whom I met in 1942 and we remained in touch no matter where he
> roamed and he really got around.
>
> He was a transit professional and he worked in so many different  
> places
> that I can't begin to  remember them all. He finally retired a  
> couple of
> years or so ago and spent his remaining days in his favorite city,
> Allentown, PA. His very sharp memory could answer in detail almost any
> question that one would ask.
>
> His very first job was a car cleaner for the P&W in Upper Darby, PA  
> but
> he moved up very quickly due to his driving ambition and it could be
> said that the grass was always greener somewhere else and that got him
> jobs all over the country from coast to coast. He said that his very
> favorite was his last in Houston, TX where he worked for a little over
> five years, the last year as an LRV operator. He had a spotless record
> there but one day he noticed that his eyesight and depth perception  
> was
> beginning to fail so he sadly had to retire.
>
> He took a final fling with a trip to Germany where he fulfilled a
> lifelong ambition to see the cities where his maternal grandparents
> lived.
>
> Then it was a quiet rather uneventful retirement in Allentown where he
> spent his last days with his fabulous memories and I was glad to be  
> able
> to talk with him on the phone frequently.
> Rest in Peace, "CHS", you lived a great life.
>
> KFG
>