A Celebration of Life was held on Sunday, April 14, 2019, at Casino San Clemente to honor member John R. DiCaro.

From the OC Register:

On Saturday, March 16, 2019 our wonderful patriarch John Russell DiCaro, loving husband, brother, father and grandfather, passed away peacefully at the age of 78, in his home in Vista, California.

John was born June 16, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York to Sam and Rose DiCaro. The family moved from Brooklyn to southern California in 1945 where he eventually attended Arcadia High School. After graduating from the University of Colorado in 1962 (despite his Phi Kappa Psi fraternity's efforts to keep him in school), he went on to earn his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966. He practiced law from 1966 to 2016 — litigating over 150 jury trials to verdict — and served as a mediator and arbitrator in his semi-retirement from 2016 to 2019. His work and his many law partnerships through the years took him from San Francisco to Santa Ana to Irvine to La Jolla to Carlsbad. It's been said by his peers that John was an "expert in the practice of civility," always opting for pleasant but effective resolution as a compassionate, humorous, honest and tremendously evaluative litigator. John was both a titan and a warm soul among the southern California litigator community and his many friends from diverse walks of life. He perpetually practiced proper discourse, recently demonstrated by one of his peers who wrote, "he had a passion for legal research, always kept an open mind, liked it when asked the difficult questions, and he was the benchmark of integrity and professionalism."

He was dedicated to many things — his family, his cherished friendships, his travels to his Italian homeland and other elevations and corners of the globe; his pageantry-driven and often larger-than-life meals, college sports, and sometimes to a fault his beloved Los Angeles Dodgers. He even participated in Dodgers Fantasy Camps in Vero Beach in the 1980's and once wrote a daily article for this Orange County Register paper relating all the glory and palpitations of playing under the watch of Don Drysdale, Clem Labine, Maury Wills, and even Roy "Campy" Campanella.

John will never be forgotten and will always be in our hearts as Pop, Dad, John, Grandpa, Gianni, or Paisano.

John is survived by his wife of 22 years, Beth DiCaro; his sister Lynda; his three children: Julie, Shelly (spouse: Scott and their two children Kaitlyn and Ben), and Gino (spouse: Christina); and his several loving cousins, nieces and nephews.

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