Charles Hankammer

Mr. Charles Robert Hankammer of San Francisco, CA – died in his home on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. He was 93 years old. Charles, known by his family as “Chick” and friends as “Charlie,” was born on February 3, 1926 to George Sr. and Alvira (nee Decker) Hankammer in Belleville, IL. He attended Belleville Township Highschool before enlisting in the U.S. Navy in 1944. During WWII he served as a CSG2, cooking for the troop trains passing through Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, CA. After an honorable discharge from the Navy in 1946, Charles worked as a short order cook at Fosters, Inc. in San Francisco, CA. When the Korean War broke out, he returned to active duty at China Lake, with a final discharge from Naval service in 1952. Charles was a proud member of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union Local #2 AFL-CIO since June 1946. He spent many years working at Sears Fine Food in San Francisco, where he was featured on the Pacific Currents television show highlighting his talent as the “best egg-man in California.”

In addition to his lifelong passions of music and dancing, Charles was civic-minded and worked as a polling station inspector for the Department of Elections for many years. He also worked as a clerk for the 2000 Census in San Francisco, going door to door in the Richmond District gathering census data.

Charles is survived by nieces Linette Cash of Beaverton, OR, Donna Martin, Mary Beth Becker, Lydia Hankammer, and nephew Michael Kling, all of Belleville, IL. He is preceded in death by his wife of 34 years, Teresa Hankammer, and sisters and brothers-in-law June and Leroy Schaefer, Shirley and Edward Kling, and brother and sister-in-law George and Rose Hankammer.

At Charles’ request, his body was donated to the Willed Body Program at the University of California, San Francisco for the advancement of science.

Longtime Marin resident, Robert “Bob” Judd died peacefully in his sleep at his Mill Valley home on May 29, 2019. The retired consulting engineer, UC Berkeley graduate, and member of the “greatest generation” was 92 years old.

Born on Easter Sunday, April 17th, 1927, at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley CA, Robert Hatfield Judd was the youngest of three children of Hubert Judd and Ellen Vanderhoof Judd. He grew up on Vincente Ave. in Berkeley during the great depression, and he remembered milk and ice deliveries to his parent’s back door. Despite the depression, “Bobby” and his two older sisters, Lois and Janice, had a pleasant childhood with summer trips in the family car. During his childhood, he discovered his mechanical aptitude and began a lifelong love of aviation and model airplanes. Typical of many in his generation, he carried the Saturday Evening Post for one of his first jobs, and was both a Cub Scout and a Boy Scout during the 1930’s. Robert graduated from Garfield Junior High (now MLK Junior High) and attended Berkeley High School, graduating in 1945. During the summer of 1943, Bob joined the Civil Air Patrol Cadets (CAP), which was a first step for teenage boys planning to join the US Army Air Corps, and he picked up a job at the Moore Shipyard in Oakland, building Moore C-3 cargo ships in support of the war effort. Bob returned to the job in the summer of 1944, working an “advanced” job securing manhole covers. His array of part time work helped him pay for flight hours which allowed him to obtain a pilot’s license. Bob learned to fly before he learned to drive a car.

In the Spring of 1945, Robert entered UC Berkeley as a Freshman, but the US Army Air Corps sent him a letter indicating they had other plans for him, and he reported for military duty at Beale Air Force Base on July 14, 1945, and from there he was shipped by train to Keesler Field