Charles H Hamilton

He was born in Mobile, Alabama to Charles Howard Hamilton and his devoted mother Nida Smith Hamilton. An industrious lad, he often described selling newspapers near Union Station in downtown Houston and the excitement of the business community. After accepting an early, post high school life as a refinery worker at Sinclair Oil, he chose to better himself and pursued a business degree at the University of Houston, eventually culminating in establishing his own successful accounting firm years later.

As a handsome captain of Milby High School's football team and student body president, he married the schools beautiful homecoming queen Vivian Loretta Harris. They produced three children which survive today; they are Holly Hamilton Kutalek, Dr. Steven Hamilton, and Dana Hamilton McMahon.

As fate would have it, that perfect union dissolved after 23 years and an even more perfect marriage followed to Jeanette Kleyff Goldberg. She was a Dutch Holocaust escapee raised from infancy in Mexico City and became the devoted wife, mentor, and adopted mother of the entire family. Charles lost her twenty two years later to breast cancer.

Eventually he was lucky enough to find love once more in the final connubial relationship he was to form with Anna Raye from Nashville,Tennessee. They enjoyed their final, happy years together traveling and devoted to family. Anna predeceased Charles several years before his death.

He was a passionate man of many earthly interests. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, and even a longer than necessary stint on a Harley Davidson (according to his physician son).

He will be missed by many across the globe that he has touched with his friendship and mentorship. Possessed of an uncanny ability to be both liked and respected, he will be missed as an irreplaceable friend and family member. The family wish to thank Dr. Norman Berkman and Dr. Stanley Appel's team at Methodist Hospital that helped orchestrate his care, the VITAS Hospice team, and his devoted Yolanda Alvizo and sons, Jose and Daniel and Maria Day, without whose love and support his final phase of life would have lacked the all important elements of love, comfort, and grace.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family at ten o’clock in the morning on Saturday, the 29th of October, in the Jasek Chapel of Geo H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive. The funeral service is to be conducted immediately following at eleven o’clock in the Jasek Chapel. The interment will follow, via an escorted cortege, at Forest Park Westheimer Cemetery in Houston, Texas

In lieu of customary remembrance, memorial contributions may be directed to the Houston Methodist ALS Fund, Neurology Department 6560 Fannin, #802, Houston, TX 77030 or by visiting http://www.houston¬methodist.org/nineurology.cfm?id=34923