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- Courtesy of Stephanie Wrightson
Charles was deployed (WWII - Africa, Italy, France and Germany) shortly after his marriage to Gwen. When he returned, he worked at the Rock Island Arsenal (as a GS-1) and went to college at the same time on the GI Bill. With his degree, he entered the human resources management field in the Federal civil service (Dept of Army) and worked for them in many locations (El Paso, TX; Germany; Vietnam; Virginia). He was waiting for disability retirement as a GS-15 Personnel Officer with the Military District of Washington (in Arlington, VA) when he died from a heart attack on the golf course. He was residing in Fairfax, VA at that time. He loved fishing at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina on the Atlantic Ocean, and his ashes were scattered in the ocean there.
According to his wife, Charles was an extrovert, a gentleman, a great softball player, an avid golfer and fisherman, made a mean martini, and was the love of her life. He was deployed in WWII immediately after their honeymoon...during which Gwen became pregnant with her first son. When he returned, he went to college on the GI bill and had a mail room job at the Rock Island Arsenal where he was a GS-1. He got into personnel management when he graduated and moved up to the top of the General Schedule to GS-15.
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The Washington Post
July 4, 1975
Charles Hall, Personnel Chief for Army Branch. Charles J. Hall, 54, chief of the civilian personnel branch of the U.S. Army Military Traffic Management Command, died of a heart attack Sunday. He was stricken while playing golf at the International Town and Country Club in Fairfax. He had been on medical leave since suffering a heart attack last November.
Mr. Hall, a native of Burlington, Iowa, served with the Army in Africa, Italy, France and Germany during World War II. After the war, he attended Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., and received bachelor's and master's degrees in education from Iowa University. Mr. Hall joined the federal government in 1952 as a trainee in civilian personnel management at the Rock Island Arsenal. He was an employee utilization technician at the White Sands missile range in New Mexico from 1952 to 1960. He then moved to Heidelberg, Germany, where he served as deputy chief of the program evaluation branch of the U.S. Army in Europe.
From 1963 to 1965, he was in Berlin as civilian personnel officer for the U.S. Army. Mr. Hall returned to this country to serve as civilian personnel officer at Ft. Bliss, Tex., and Rock Island Arsenal. He came to Washington in 1969 to serve as director of civilian personnel for the Military District of Washington.
In April, 1972 Mr. Hall was sent to Vietnam to direct the U.S. Army work force. In 1973, he was responsible for the beginning of the phase-out of some of the U.S. civilian and Vietnamese work force. He returned to Washington that year as chief of civilian personnel for the Military Traffic Management Command.
He is survived by his wife, Gwendolyn H. Hall, of the home, 4033 Olley La., Fairfax; two sons, Leland H., of Hampton, Va., and William H., of Charleston, S.C.; his mother, Mrs. Clair Schultz, of Rockford, Ill.; a brother, William H., of Omaha, Neb., and a sister, Mr. (sic) Robert Elliott, of Glencoe, Ala.
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