Human Interest - HL 283 (1)

From: David L. Roberts

Date: 12/6/2017 10:00:19 PM

To: misc.pcn@gmail.com

Subject: Fwd: Passing of Dr. Ralph Gomer Farinas

Hi Mark,
This is an interesting story you might want to publish in your next PCN Highlife.  It was relayed to me by retired Captain John Morgan Ph.D., who lives in MIA and was a classmate of mine in USAF pilot training class 61-Delta   www.61-d.org.
Merry Christmas,
Dave

Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 09:29:02 -0500
From: jmorgan667@aol.com
To: RobertsDL@Mindspring.Com
Subject: Fwd: Passing of Dr. Ralph Gomer Farinas

Hi Dave,
Dr Farinas is the Father of retired Delta Captain & now Air Carrier Inspector George Farinas. Quite a distinguished family.
Best Wishes for the Holiday Season.
Merry Christmas.
John Morgan, MIA.

jmorgan667@aol.com


-----Original Message-----
From: George G. Farinas heliceXXprop@att.net 
To: George G. Farinas <heliceXXprop@att.net>
Sent: Mon, Dec 4, 2017 5:43 pm
Subject: Passing of Dr. Ralph Gomer Farinas

It is with a heavy heart and great sorrow, that I inform you of the passing this week of my father. Dad was born one hundred year ago in Yboy City, the then cigar capital of the U.S. He graduated from University of Tampa’s medical school and joined the Army as a young 24-yr-old medic in 1942 during WWII. In Sep 1944, he participated in the fiercest and bloodiest battle in the Pacific Theater, that had the highest casualty rate of any amphibious assault in American military history: The Battle of Peleliu, w/ the 81^st Infantry Division. After the war he went to Havana w/ two other doctors from the Tampa area, and founded the American Hospital, Cuba’s most modern and successful private hospital, where he met and married my Cuban mother, an aspiring beautiful young radiologist from a wealthy and well-to-do family from Camaguey that hailed originally from the Canary islands. When Castro and the rest of his band of Communist pigs expropriated his hospital, he returned to Tampa in 1968 and worked as a Radiologist in the American Veterans Hospital, and later the Tampa Memorial hospital. He served as Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida until 2002, when at the age of 85, decided to retire entirely. In 2010, he bought the same house where he was born in, coming full-circle last week “ when he died in it. He was a true American patriot - may he RIP!

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