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THOMAS C. CUNDY
Chairman and CEO
CUNDY Inc.
While he was born during the height of the Depression in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, Tom Cundy grew up in Bellevue, Kentucky, an
Irish/German settlement along the Ohio River. He did not have
a close relationship with his father, an unskilled laborer and
an alcoholic who was away from home for long periods of time.
When he was 16, his parents were officially divorced.
Cundy's mother, Nettie Mae Maloney, was a bright straight-A student
who never had the opportunity to finish high school. She
earned a small income for herself and her son by working in a
Cincinnati department store. "I lived with my mother in a
very small house, where I slept on a cot that I made up each
night," says Cundy. "I never had a real bed until I
went away to college."
Besides his mother, Cundy had the love and support of his maternal
grandparents. His grandfather, a factory worker, loved to read
and spent many hours talking with his young grandson.
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