Chic was one lucky man. He lived 90 wonderful years during which he got to pursue all of his many interests.

After serving in Japan after WWII, he graduated from the University of Md and then attended the University of PA Dental School, where he met his future wife Jo-an Flynn, who was in the Dental Hygiene program.  He and Jo-an were married and moved to Buffalo, NY for his Oral Surgery residency at Millard Fillmore Hospital, where both Peter and Kathy were born.  While there, he developed a passion for tennis and even beat the city champion once.

After residency, he and the family moved to MD.  He set up practice in Silver Spring and around 1961 bought a house on Colesville Rd, where he turned the lowest level into his office.  He developed a full dental practice and a life full of friends and social activities.

He was very involved in the Isaac Walton League, where he loved to fish and shoot trap and skeet, was its president multiple times, and was instrumental in fundraising so a new club could be built in Damascus.  During this time, he was involved with and on the board of the National Rifle Association.   He was also politically engaged and help start a grassroots campaign called C.A.T. (Citizens Against Tydings). 

In 1971, he moved the family to a house off Layhill Rd.  The larger basement there was also an important part of his life.  In it, he built a clay-tile wine wall and collected red wines. Down there, he built a one-seater wood airplane that he flew mostly around his flying club in Westminster but also on a few long trips to other states.  (In his later years, he was a good way through building his second, a 2-seater pontoon plane, when he was grounded for health reasons.)

He obviously loved working with his hands: surgery, planes. But he also designed three homes and built two of them. On the beach house, he had the framing done and did the rest by himself.  After retiring from oral surgery, he started to play golf with his buddies and played several times a week.  And he and friend Walter Mancuso took on renovating the Knights of Columbus.

When grandchildren came and they were old enough, he loved to take them surf fishing and fishing/crabbing in the South Bethany, DE bay.  He’d help them make birdhouses and other projects that he’d think up for them.   

Chic was a smart and sociable man who loved to insert funny quips and stories into a conversation. He was an organizer who loved to get things done, and do them well. He was a good friend, and most importantly was a wonderful husband, father, and grandfather.  In his last few years he forgot a lot of things, but we were all fortunate that he didn’t forget his family. He leaves behind: Jo-an, his wife of 63 years; Peter, his son; Kathleen, his daughter; and six grandchildren: Emily, Michael, Abby, Daniel, Hillary, and Hayley.  We will miss him.

Visitation at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, 15663 Norbeck Boulevard, Silver Spring MD on Thursday, February 23 from 10:00 until 11:00 am with Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 am. Entombment Gate of Heaven Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Alzheimer's Foundation of America. alzfdn.org.

Arrangements by Cole Funeral Services.

 Service Information