Those We Lost

Carlin's Last Stand

The last week of July George Carlin's ashes were dispersed. He had asked his daughter, Kelly Carlin-McCall to deal with them within 30 days of his death in a manner that would respect his philosophy and outlook on life. With about 25 old friends from his old Irish NYC neighborhood (Morningside Heights), his daughter Kelly with his brother Patrick, his nephew Dennis and his son-in-law Bob McCall, started the dispersal at 120th and Riverside Dr., a spot called The Question Mark where George and his group of friends used to hang out in their youth. Kelly and the family then took him to Bleecker St. in Greenwich Village to a tree in front of the club The Bitter End to honor his creative beginnings, then to Lake Spofford in New Hampshire (Carlin went to camp there as a child and won many drama awards that were precious to him), then onto the family's property in Woodstock, and then finished with the remainder of the ashes in the Pacific Ocean underneath the Venice Pier.

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