Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Who was Louis De Servi?

Louis De Servi, the name has stayed with me for years...as a kid, the De Servis would stop off at the house on their way west to another exciting vacation that I could only imagine...Louis and Mrs. De Servi (I don't know if I ever knew her name other than Mrs. De Servi) were exciting and kinda flashy people who smiled a lot, drove really big cars and never overstayed their welcome, which often happened with others less flashy...I seem to vaguely recall they might have been from New York and eventually settled in California...they sure looked like people who would have settled in California, at least to me...there was always family talk about visiting the De Servis in California, but it never happened...my father had begun lawyer life in San Francisco before Chicago and never seemed interested in any return there...he once told me how dangerous it could be as a criminal lawyer if you didn't get the guilty man sprung...threatened a time or two, he would add...Louis De Servi could have been a lawyer, we had a lot of them coming and going through the house in those days (particularly on Poker Night when the US Marshal and a Supreme Court judge would sit in and feed me shots of beer to slow down my 5-year-old outloud observations of the cards they were holding)...just don't know...I did find on FamilySearch.org a Louis De Servi who died in San Leandro, California, in 1994, but other than that, he has disappeared, except in my memory...

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