Dowdle, Chuck: - Chuck Dowdle was born in Crookston, Minnesota. While attending college on the GI bill, Dowdle married his former Cathedral High School friend and classmate, Marilyn "Marty" Kirkwood. Dowdle graduated from St. John's University at Collegeville, Minnesota in 1952. Five daughters, an MA in Secondary Education, and thirty-six years later, Dowdle retired from teaching English in Santa Rosa, California. After his wife of forty-nine years died of ovarian cancer, he married her close high school friend, Carmelle Johnson Matthes. They lived happily in Cambria, California for twenty-two years until her death in 2023.