Pappy's funeral araingments

[Smokin Joe]

Announcement from the family of CJ “Pappy” Hart

SERVICES FOR: CJ “Pappy” Hart

DAY OF SERVICES: Thursday, July 1, 2004 TIME: 11:00 am

SERVICE LOCATION: WAVERLEY CHURCH
1702 Fairhaven Avenue
Santa Ana, CA 92705

714-633-1442

VISITATION DAY: June 30, 2004 HOURS: 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm

VISITATION LOCATION: Fairhaven Memorial Park & Mortuary
1702 Fairhaven Avenue
Santa Ana, CA 92705

714-633-1442

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INTERNMENT LOCATION: Lawn J – Lot 546 – Space E



Please do not send flowers…

Pappy’s special request:

Please make a contribution on behalf of CJ “Pappy” Hart to:

Drag Racing Association of Women (DRAW)
4 Hance Drive
Charleston, IL 61920

217-345-6537

www.drawonline.org (http://www.drawonline.org)

Thank you all again! The Hart Family

[Smokin Joe]

This is from Jon Lundberg on Nitrogeezers. I know he won't mind me pasting it here as well. It wasn't just me Pappy helped out.

From Jon Lundberg

I want to talk a bit about CJ Hart. Like many "midwesters" who loved
drag racing in the 60's, I used to gobble up the Lions stories which appeared in
Drag News each week. Finally, in 1965, I announced my first event there.
Two events changed my life. Announcing all day Sunday at the '63 Smokers
"March Meet" and that regular Saturday night at Lions. To say that I was
impressed is a massive understatement! We had the greatest Super Stockers and
AF/X's at Detroit Dragway each week as well as Kalitta and a few fuelers. But
nothing close to the unlimited race car action at Lions!
On that Saturday night in '65 I unloaded on the Lions the complete
Lundberg "bag of tricks." Well, what worked at Detroit, didn't quite affect the
Lions fans in the same way. So Tuesday I go to the Lions office to get paid.
There sat "Pappy", smoking a cigar.
He said, "Lundberg you certainly gave our crowd a different kind of
announcer Saturday night." "Now, I've got your pay here, but before I give it to
you - you're gonna read this letter from one of my regulars." Well, that
writer certainly had a different analysis of my presentation than I - and she said
so in no uncertain terms. When I'd finished reading her letter CJ looked at
me, right straight in the eye (anyone who's had it will never forget that
withering, I've got something to say and you'd better listen, gaze), and said,
"Don't you ever run that eastern psycho stuff on my spectators again!" Enough
said. Message delivered and thoroughly understood! He then offered, and we
smoked, a cigar together.
I appeared many times at Lions in the ensuing years, believe that CJ,
Peggy and I became good friends and I miss both of them terribly.
Here's some things most of you didn't know about CJ. Wife Peggy drove
his Caddy-powered roadster to better times at the drags than he did. Peggy told
me that each week, CJ would travel the Lions pits with $1000 in cash doling
it out to needy racers
who needed gas or food money to make it through the week. Certain racers,
familiar to many of us, benefited from this uncalled-for largess. In one of the
most sophisticated radio advertising markets on the planet, waiting fans once
heard a low budget device "recorded-in-the-tower" weekly event promo which CJ
announced himself because the regular Lions radio ad didn't get done!
CJ Hart both represented and lived personal ethics and morals that set an
example for more than one generation of drag racers. He was fair, quite
opinionated and plain spoken. You always knew where you stood with Pappy. At an
age when most of us would be napping most of the day he plunged back into drag
racing event participation at a pace which wore out track workers half his
age! For many who knew him he was a father figure with more substance than
their birth parent. He was the most totally genuine person I've ever known.
In the end, he served us. He set a marvelous example by living it.
Without often saying so, he loved us. Think of it. An 85 year-old man bringing
ice to broiling racers. Each of us who knew him are much better for having met
CJ Hart.
When Dave Wallace, or some other scribe, produces the definitive work on
this man's unique life, those of you who didn't know him should read the
treatise. What he accomplished - this uneducated man from the Midwest - at Santa
Ana, Lions and as a senior citizen in both his business and personal life is a
significant example to us all. He is inexorably woven into the rich fabric
that is drag racing. Its value has been much increased by his presence.

Godspeed Pappy,
Jon Lundberg

P.S. My sincerest condolences to Jerry and the family.