David P Carney

David’s parents were John Norman and Ruth Edith (Cole) and he had one brother, Michael Norman. The brothers were very close growing up and throughout their lives. Many holidays would be spent with Mike, his wife Sylvia and two sons, John and Guy. When David (Dave) was growing up his father was a firefighter. His mom was a homemaker. They lived on Lantana Drive, which was on a steep hill in Highland Park, CA. Their home was atop a terraced property that had all kinds of flowers, trees and plants on each terrace. His dad built a fish pond out of river rocks up at the top of the property and feeding the fish was a fun past time as a kid.

When Dave was a young boy going to school at Garzanza Elementary he met his lifelong friend, Bill Tennis. Dave and Bill had many adventures together like riding their bikes down Lantana Drive and playing in the hills of Highland Park. The two went on to Luther Burbank Jr. High school and then on to Benjamin Franklin High School in Highland Park. Dave graduated in the winter class of 1962.

Dave then went to Pasadena City College, graduating in 1964. He continued his education receiving a bachelor’s degree in business at Cal State Los Angeles in 1966. Bill began working at Southern Pacific Railroad and that started Dave's fascination of all things train related. Dave would continue collecting train memorabilia for the rest of his life. Railroad ties, nails, photos, electric train-sets and lanterns. He absolutely loved trains, and that is all thanks to Bill for taking him on a tour of the train yard where he worked when he was a young man.

Dave met his beloved Marie and they got married on October 16, 1965. They had their first child, Dana in 1968 and welcomed a son, David, in 1971. At that time, the Carney family lived in Huntington Beach, California and Dave was involved with his children's activities. Dave went to both Indian Guides and Indian Maidens with his kids. He was known as "Big Boulder" back then. When the family moved to Temple City California around 1977, he was a soccer coach for his daughter and a baseball coach for David Jr's baseball team called "The Redlegs". He always kept busy and puttered around doing all kinds of projects in his shed. One of his inventions was called the E-Z Two Tape Measure. It had a tape measure on both ends and a bubble level in the center. He made hundreds of them. He also laminated photos onto porcelain plates that he would sell at conventions or give to family as gifts. Dave was always coming up with a new idea or invention.

In 1986 he, and two partners, started a finance company for the transportation industry called Nationwide Transport Finance. He put his heart and soul into helping trucking companies fund freight movements and became a huge advocate for trucker's rights. He also founded a company called American Traffic Exchange (Amtex) that handled surety bonds for transportation brokers. Dave had been considered an "expert witness" on several occasions on the topic of transportation law and had his thoughts posted in transportation journals. The clients, customers and friends he made at Nationwide carried over the last 30 years.

But his biggest love was his family. In 1996 Nationwide moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. Dave and Marie built a home on Lone Mountain for all of his kids, grandchildren and great grandchildren to enjoy. This home also hosted many desert tortoises over the years and the neighborhood soon began calling it “the

tortoise house”. There were holidays, family dinners, birthday parties, BBQ's, Easter Egg hunts and many happy memories were made at the home of Moppy (Marie) and Boppy (Dave). Gatherings sometimes included multiple extended family from the Cole side of Dave’s family tree. When everyone in his family was together, he was happy and in his element. Moppy and Boppy were wonderful hosts.

Boppy could frequently be found in his garage (Shed #2) and tinkering with metal, wood or various liquids that could be turned into projects. He frequently bought treasures on auction sites, thrift stores and yard sales. Boppy was always hunting for his next project. Be it welding metal to make train parts, soldering silver to make jewelry for his daughter or granddaughters, or glueing coins to money clips that he passed out to everyone who he thought needed a fancy money clip. Boppy enjoyed coin shopping online with Justin Bollman, whom he considered a son. The two shopped for years building a pretty extensive coin collection. He also took Justin under his wing regarding the business and taught him all about the trucking industry. Boppy enjoyed reading and playing video games. He was also known to try his luck on penny slot machines while Moppy was winning hands at the blackjack tables.

Dave was charismatic, outgoing, had a contagious laugh and easily made friends where ever he went. Dave really was loved by all that knew him. He will be missed greatly by his daughter Dana Bollman, his grandchildren, Chris Carney and his wife Angelina, Gena Yamashita, Corrin Carney, Matthew Carney and Meagan Faubion, by his great grandchildren Ayden, Ace, Alani, Lucas, Elliotte Jae and Logan and by so many cousins, second cousins, aunts, uncles, nephews and friends he has made over his 80 magical years. Boppy, I hope you are enjoying a much-deserved beignet and hugging Moppy again. No one can ever fill your shoes.

Services for David will be private but we hope to have a tree dedication and celebration of life in the future.