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Arcadia Weekly Jan 19, 2012
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A celebration of life for Hal McClintock will be held on Saturday, Jan 28 from 3 -5 PM. The private affair for family and friends will honor the man who devoted his professional life to locomotives and also documented the role they played in the development of the 20th Century with his photographic skills.
Hal McClintock was born in Cactus, Wyoming 1920. In 1939 he moved to California where he would later (1942) start his life-long love affair with trains by working as a motorman with Pacific Electric Railways where he worked until 1955.
In 1959 McClintock became a locomotive engineer for Southern Pacific Railroad where he worked until he retired in 1983.
Hal McClintock , 91, of Pasadena passed away rather suddenly last December from complications following a fall at home. With paralysis of the legs and a complicated fracture in the neck it was deemed inoperable at his age, according to surgeons.
Hal McClintock had lived with love of his life, Bernice Miller of Pasadena, since 1992.
Bernice and Hal first met at a bereavement group after they both lost their respective spouses one year earlier. For the next 19 .5 years, Hal and Bernice were inseparable. Moving in together and forming a new relationship that many of their friends said simply was just “meant to be.”
The outgoing couple attended many community events in Sierra Madre and Arcadia as well as Pasadena with friends they made at the Support Group. They formed a splinter group they lovingly called the “Corrupt Group” with some of the other people with whom they had forged a very unique and rare bond.
Hal McClintock’s other passions in life, aside from his number one… Bernice, included golf , his wonderful Chihuahua “BEEJ”, online poker ( not for real money, of course ) and, of course anything connected with photography which sometimes included photographing beautiful models.
His outgoing personality and love of life will be missed by all who had the privilege of knowing Hal.
Bernice Miller who is Hal McClintock’s love and partner for the past 20 years said that “Trains were his life”. However, anyone who knew Hal would tell you…Bernice was his life. He loved trains but when he found Bernice, he found a new lease on life and was devoted to her for the next 20 years.
Hal was predeceased by his only son, Richard, in 2009.
