Carl Edwin Hathaway, who was 91 years old, passed away at this home in Franklin Ohio on Wednesday March 15, 2023. He had entered hospice and his wish was to be in his own home and he spent his last few weeks surrounded by his family.
Carl was born in Franklin, Ohio on October 27, 1931 to the late Leonard and Laura (Stoutenborough) Hathaway. Carl grew up on a farm on Farm Avenue in Franklin helping his family raise both beef and milk cattle, pigs, hens, and farming wheat and tobacco. He delivered milk on his way to school in the late 1930s and graduated from Franklin High School in 1945. He was active in sports growing up including pole vaulting on the track team, playing baseball as a third baseman, and was captain of his high school basketball team.
After graduating high school, Carl attended Ohio University and was in the compulsory ROTC program graduating in 1954 with a degree in agriculture. Carl immediately entered the service and became a pilot. He first trained at Lackland Air Force base in San Antonio, Texas, attended primary flight school in Barto Florida, then moved to Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas and was then finally based out of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. Carl served as a pilot just after the Korean War flying the KC-97 Stratotanker and flew with his squadron to areas such as North Africa and Finland.
After the Air Force, Carl began his lifelong career at Armco Steel starting September 24, 1959 working his way up in the organization in the sale of steel including positions such as materials manager and as senior product specialist in the Appliance, Construction & Manufacturing Group. Carl retired after 33 years at Armco in 1992.
Carl married his first wife, Patricia Lawrence Hathaway in 1959 and had three children with her and divorcing in 1973. He met his second wife, Nancy Pence, when he was at Armco. They married on August 7, 1976. Together they parented 7 children as Nancy had 4 children, and when they married, they collectively had children ranging from ages 17 to 9. At the time of his death Carl and Nancy had been married for 47 years.
Carl was always active in sports throughout his life playing softball, handball, racquetball, golfing, fishing with friends for whitefish on Lake Erie, and walking. He was a life-long member of Wildwood Golf Course in Middletown Ohio golfing in leagues and with his Wildwood golf friends known as the “scumbags”. He celebrated his 90th birthday with family, friends and the scumbags in October 2021 at Wildwood! After retiring, Carl enjoyed working in the Armco Park pro shop for over 16 years and golfing at the Park where he had his “hole in one” on hole 6. He loved to grill as his family will tell you and was a “grill master” especially his turkeys on the grill and burgers, and won several chili cook-offs at Armco Park with his “hound-dog chili”.
Carl had a heart of gold, and while he was not a man of many words his presence and dependability was always felt by his co-workers, friends and family. In his later years, he still walked two miles a day, cut his hilly yard, and gardened to keep active.
He was preceded in death by his sisters, Ellen Trail (“Toadie”), who passed away in January 19th 2023 at age 92, and Betty Lou Robinson (2015). Carl is survived by his wife, Nancy, his children, Lisa Hathaway, David Hathaway, Jeff Hathaway, and his stepchildren, Brian Murphy, Pam Crews, Kevin Murphy and Karl Murphy and his 10 grandchildren. His presence in this world will be greatly missed by his family.
On Saturday March 25th, a visitation will take place at Anderson Funeral Home (1357 2nd St.) in Franklin Ohio from 11-12 p.m. and immediately following there will be a graveside service at 12:30 p.m. at Woodhill Cemetery located at 6228 Hamilton-Middletown Rd, Franklin, OH with military honors. A luncheon in his honor will be after the burial from 1-4 p.m. at Anderson Funeral Home.
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