This is my father, who died too young. He was a great man.

##March 18, 1930 – May 15, 1996

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Charles Francis Carney of Weston, West
Virginia, son of “Ella Rebecca Kraus” and “Thomas Edward Carney”. Nickname
was Babe (got it because older brother John couldn’t pronounce Charles or
Francis when he was born, so he called in the Baby which evolved into
Babe). To this day, the people of Weston only know him as Babe Carney.

###St. Patrick’s Catholic School

###Lifeguard at the family owned Lake Riley Golf and Country Club
Learned to play and love the game of golf from his uncle John Kraus who
ran the golf course at Lake Riley

###Air Force

###Masters of Business Administration

###Go West Young Man

Decided that his place was not in West Virginia, so he packed up his car
and started driving west. He almost didn’t make it to California. After
driving for days through the desert basins in Utah, Colorado and Nevada he
was ready to turn back. But when he found his way over the Sierra Nevada mountain range, and saw down into California, he knew that he had found
the place he wanted to live. He found a job at Philco, and settled in
Mountain View.

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###Marriage

Jeanne Marie Layden on June 26, 1965. They met at a party in
Carmel, CA and were married at the Carmel Mission. They first lived in an
apartment in Mountain View, CA, but soon moved into a house in Sunnyvale,
CA where they lived for the next 27 years. After he retired, he and Jeanne
moved to Santa Rosa, CA in the middle of the famed California Wine Country.
He joined the Santa Rosa Golf and Country Club.

###Children:

• Michael David Carney: April 24, 1966
  
  Married to Danae L. Waters on May 26, 1990. 2 Children
  
  
  
  • Vanessa L. Carney: September 12, 1991
  
  
  • Madison M. Carney: February 21, 1994
  
  



• Scott Layden Mark Carney: July 3, 1968
  

###Soccer Referee in AYSO

###Comments

Died
May 15, 1996 due to complications arising from heart attack
Always found a reason to laugh. Was never spiteful. Went out of his way to
help others.

###Autopsy Summary by Dr. Thomas E. Dunlap, M.D.

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Please find enclosed a copy of the autopsy report from Santa Rosa Memorial
Hospital dated 5/16/96.

If you look on page 4 of this describes the provisional gross diagnosis as
of 7/17/96. The two areas to note on this report are Item V which
indicates that there is a state of the right coronary artery having been
manipulated with the placement of a stent with the vessel being completely
intact with no evidence of rupture. This means that the result of the
coronary operation that was performed on Monday preceding your father’s
death was successful and was not the cause of his death. Item VI you will
note description of interstitial hemorrhage and describing a condition
called cardiac tamponade. This is a post-mortem or post-(after death)
diagnosis. Cardiac tamponade usually refers to the heart being restricted
in its mobility because of surrounding pressure. There was never any
indication that this occurred and this is an observed anatomic abnormality not a description of interstitial hemorrhage which involves 1/3rd of the
volume of the heart and primarily the posterior wall. This is the region
of the heart where there was an anatomic abnormaility left over from the
time of your father’s original bypass surgery. This is also the region of
the heart where there was an indication that damage had occurred prior to
his hospital admission. If you then refer to page 2 of the microscopic
examination of the autopsy report which is futher along, please refer to
the comment underneath the diagnosis. This comment indicates the presence
of hemorrhage or bleeding which was likely as old as 7 days and was
associated with fat necrosis and extensive interstitial hemorrhage or
bleeding into the muscle of the heart. This was due to a “heart attack”
occurring before your father presented to the hospital.

In considering the potential cause of your father’s demise it appears that
the cause of this was due to bleeding or hemorrhage into the muscle of the
heart located on the back side of the heart or the posterior wall from
myocardial infarction. It appeared that this process began some days before he was admitted to the hospital and before the angioplasty/stent
procedure. It is likely that the heparinization given to him at the time
of the angioplasty/sten procedure allowed extensive bleeding to occur
within the muscel of the heart and subsequenntly the resultant failure of
both the right and left ventricle occurred.

This was a complication that was not predictable nor do I feel likely
preventable. The indications to proceed ahead with treating your father’s
progressive coronary artery insufficiency were clear. The performance of
the procedure was very straight forward with no real difficulties occurring
during the procedure that would have predicted further complications.
Unfortunately for your father heparinization is indicated during the
angioplasty/sten procedure. This is done routinely and the degree of
heparinization is quite extensive to prevent blood clot from performing
within the vessel that is being dilated or stented. In your father’s
circumstance this permitted the area of his heart muscle, which had already
been damaged, to experience excessive bleeding and lead to the resultant
complication.

I hope that this answers your questions about the untimely nature of your
father’s death. Again please accept my condolence and if you have any
further questions or concers or would like to meet with myself or Dr.
Price please feel free to contact us.