Schurz High SchoolClass Of 1963
Charles Rimpila
Tom and I became good friends during high school and afterwards.
We had some good times together doing things or just hanging out together.
I remember one time we went to an Italian festival or fair during the summer.
He bought fried snails and I probably had an italian beef sandwich.
A few hours afterwards Tom developed a terrible case of food poisoning,
and got really really sick with a lot of vomiting and retching. I did fine.
Since then I have never eaten snails for food
and when I see snails on a menu, I think of Tom.
I stood up as a groomsmen at his wedding in1965 or 1966.
He and his wife had a baby son shortly after.
Unfortunately he seperated from his wife, they both were very young.
He was drafted into the Army and served a tour of duty in Vietnam and survived.
By that time our paths went in different directions and I lost contact with Tom.
I am sad that he is gone.
Charles Rimpila
Tom and I became good friends during high school and afterwards.
We had some good times together doing things or just hanging out together.
I remember one time we went to an Italian festival or fair during the summer.
He bought fried snails and I probably had an italian beef sandwich.
A few hours afterwards Tom developed a terrible case of food poisoning,
and got really really sick with a lot of vomiting and retching. I did fine.
Since then I have never eaten snails for food
and when I see snails on a menu, I think of Tom.
I stood up as a groomsmen at his wedding in1965 or 1966.
He and his wife had a baby son shortly after.
Unfortunately he seperated from his wife, they both were very young.
He was drafted into the Army and served a tour of duty in Vietnam and survived.
By that time our paths went in different directions and I lost contact with Tom.
I am sad that he is gone.