NEW YORK -- Bill Gallo, an Iwo Jima Marine veteran, and accomplished cartoonist and sports columnists for the New York Daily News, was remembered at a funeral service at St. Patricks Cathedral, here, May 13. Gallo attended Columbia University with the aid of the GI Bill after returning from the Pacific and resumed a career lasting 70 years with the paper. Gallo died May 10; he was 88 years old. NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly, a fellow Marine veteran, eulogized Gallo. Kelly reading a line from one of his columns, referencing the Marine Corps helping alleviate the loss of Gallo's father at age 11.
NEW YORK -- Bill Gallo, an Iwo Jima Marine veteran, and accomplished cartoonist and sports columnists for the New York Daily News, was remembered at a funeral service at St. Patricks Cathedral, here, May 13. Gallo attended Columbia University with the aid of the GI Bill after returning from the Pacific and resumed a career lasting 70 years with the paper. Gallo died May 10; he was 88 years old. NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly, a fellow Marine veteran, eulogized Gallo. Kelly reading a line from one of his columns, referencing the Marine Corps helping alleviate the loss of Gallo's father at age 11. "There was now a sense of order now in my life I never had before. I learned the things a father would teach you. That hole in my heart was starting to fill," Gallo had written. (Official Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Randall A. Clinton) NY Marine Iwo Jima Veteran, acclaimed sports cartoonist, columnist laid to rest by NYCMarines
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