Fr. Charley Conroy under fire

Just ran across this June, 1988 Chi Trib obit for Charley Conroy, who appears in Company Man as a priest at Loyola Academy in the late ’50s, a couple years before he entered the Army as a chaplain, where he performed heroically.

A memorial mass for Lt. Col. Charles A. Conroy, 62, a Catholic priest, highly decorated Army chaplain and native of the Rogers Park neighborhood, will be said at 7:30 p.m. Monday in St. Ignatius Catholic Church, 6559 N. Glenwood Ave.

“He was the single most-decorated chaplain on active duty in the Army“

at the time he retired in 1984, said Father Conroy`s longtime friend, Jack Long.

Among Father Conroy`s many decorations were the Distinguished Service Cross, the Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts. He also was a master parachutist with 15 air medals and 3,310 jumps, Long said.