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John was born in Walla Walla Wash. on July 22, 1944 to Francis Gerard Daley and Merna Maxine Thompson. The family moved to Boston for the first years of his life. A few years later a brother Joe Daley joined the family when they moved to Walla Walla, Wash. and then to Los Angeles where John grew up and attended and graduated from Hollywood High. John had many friends and extended family that he helped raise. John was into the surfing and 60’s scene. He traveled Europe in the early twenties with his friend John Ward and they saw Amsterdam, Spain, France, Greece, and Istanbul. He met Marina...