Edmund Burke O'Connell

   OCTOBER - 2009

 The late Edmund Burke O’Connell served in the North African, Naples-Foggia, Northern Apennines, Po Valley and Rome Arno Italian campaigns of World War II.

    Burke O’Connell married my mother, Jan Whitman in 1973 in Santa Monica, California and resided in Palm Springs, California. In his later years, Burke became active as an actor in the Valley Players Guild, taught gourmet cooking classes, painted oils, and forever embraced the richness of Italian culture in everything he ever touched.

    He died at the age of 74 in 1988 and is buried at the Los Angeles National Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.