Bodacious and irascible, salty and irreverent — those are the colorful words used by friends and colleagues to describe Warchol’s one-of-a-kind personality. “He was not like anyone else,” says his wife, Mary Brown Malouf. “He was larger than life. He lived more intensely than anyone I ever knew.”
“He packed life into 65 years,” says Holly Mullen, his former wife, and mother of Caitlin “Kit” and Sam Warchol. “That’s italicized ‘life,’ in 74-point-sized font.”
In the small-town circles of Utah politics and journalism — including at The Salt Lake Tribune, where he worked for 15 years — just about everyone has a colorful Warchol story.