McCaskey, Chicago Bears and Virginia Halas

according to her son Patrick McCaskey's 2009 memoir "Bear With Me." Halas did give his OK, but other factors led the couple to elope and marry on Halas' 48th birthday. She had just turned 20.
The family gathered to pray the rosary almost every night after dinner. Pat McCaskey, Ed and Virginia’s fourth child and a Bears vice president and board member, expressed appreciation for the ...