Charles Dana Hamly

1919 - 2008  (89 years)

• Name	Charles Dana Hamly  [1]
  Birth	9 Mar 1919	Denver, Denver, Colorado   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	11 Apr 2008	Sun City Center, Hillsborough, Florida   [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I17852	Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmell Magna (1490-1542)
  Last Modified	15 Dec 2019

  
  

  Father	Stanley Valentine Hamly,   b. 14 Feb 1873, Port Hope, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada d. 29 Sep 1961, Coral Gables, Dade, Florida (Age 88 years)
  Mother	Rose Hill Emerson,   b. 4 Feb 1877, Greeley, Weld, Colorado d. 16 Nov 1962, Coral Gables, Dade, Florida (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	26 Jun 1908	Denver, Denver, Colorado   [1, 3]
  Family ID	F8257	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Evelyn Elizabeth Cates,   b. 13 Oct 1918, Macon, Bibb, Georgia d. 12 Feb 2010, Springfield, Fairfax, Virginia (Age 91 years)
  Children	1. Living
  Family ID	F11286	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2017

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Alice Hoskins
  Family ID	F11287	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2017

  
  

• Notes

  The Miami Herald (FL) April 17, 2008 HAMLY, CHARLES DANA, WWII veteran, insurance executive, lifelong sailor. (March 9, 1919 - April 11, 2008) Charlie Hamly was born in Denver in 1919. His family settled in Coconut Grove, FL, in the 1920s. Charlie made several notable contributions during WWII: Stationed at the Hillsborough Lighthouse, he was among the crew of a surfboat that rescued people from a torpedoed and burning ship just before it exploded. He was given a gold lifesaving medal for that rescue by the town. As the operator of a picket boat in Miami Harbor, he rescued the residents of Elliot Key and the other keys during the 1945 hurricane. As a First Class Boatswain's Mate, he was master of his own submarine chaser on independent duty patrolling thousands of miles of the Caribbea After WWII, Charlie went back to the University of Miami for a degree in Business. He worked his way up to Vice President of American Bankers Insurance Company. He was an early member of the Coconut Sailing Club, serving as Commodore and in other positions of responsibility In 1974, Charlie Hamly built a house in Key Largo and helped found the Upper Keys Sailing Club, serving as Commodore. After retirement in 1975, Charles embarked upon a life of cruising the East Coast and the Bahamas full time in various sail boats and finally in his well known trawler yacht, "New Moon." Charlie Hamly was predeceased by his three siblings, Rowland Emerson Hamly, Catherine Hill Hamly and Rosemary Haskell Hamly; and by his grandson, Hayden McClay Stucker. He is survived by his wife, Marie Alice (Hoskins) Hamly; his son and daughter-in-law, Richard Dana Hamly and Gloria Page Hamly; his daughter, Charlene Hamly; his grandchildren, Charles Emerson Hamly, Catherine Dana de Jager, Trevor Haynes Doetsch, Otto Edward Soderman, Ara Rose Soderman, Ada Jeanne Soderman, Asa Lloyd Soderman; and eleven great grandchildren. Charlie Hamly passed away on April 11, 2008 at age 89 at the LifePath Hospice Center in Sun City Florida.

  
  

• Sources

  [S53606] Ancestor chart of Richard Dana Hamly, (compiled by Richard Dana Hamly for the Haskell Family Association). [S53585] SSDI: Social Security Death Index (Reliability: 0). Name:Charles D. Hamly Last Residence: 33571 Ruskin, Hillsborough, Florida BORN:9 Mar 1919 Died:11 Apr 2008 State (Year) SSN issued:Colorado (Before 1951) [S64224] Ancestry.com, James Summerlin Family Tree. [S40246] Obituary, The Miami Herald (FL), Charles Dana Hamly, (April 17, 2008).