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CHARLES STODDARD KREGER "Chick" Charles Stoddard "Chick" Kreger, 89, died peacefully on June 15, 2012 at The Waterford senior living community in Juno Beach, FL, as result of complications associated with his five-year struggle with Alzheimer's. He was born in Boston, MA, and grew up in Shaker Heights, OH. He attended the Hawkins School in Shaker Heights, the Fessenden School in Newton, MA, and graduated in 1942 from Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH. A graduate of Harvard University, he had attended Harvard for one year before he was called up in 1943 to serve in the U.S. Army Air Corps. He trained for two years and then served in England as a second lieutenant and then a first lieutenant. He flew P-51 Mustangs in 56 missions over Germany and logged 800 hours of air time. After World War II, he returned to Harvard University and graduated in 1948 with a BS in Engineering Sciences. In the 1950s, he worked for Sperry Rand (Sperry Gyroscope) in their Univac division, on the first commercial computers. He was an expert in Cobol and worked for various companies as a management consultant in computers for over 30 years. He married Ann Wright, a Wellesley graduate, in 1950. They were married for 26 years, and lived in Levittown, Long Island, NY; then in Wilton, CT. They summered in Chatham, Cape Cod, MA. He remarried in 1979 to Mary Brown and remained with her until she passed away in 2006. They lived in Manhattan and in Watch Hill, RI, and then, since 1985, in the Lake Clark Shores community of West Palm Beach, FL, and on Eagle Lake in Brevard, NC. Chick was an avid sailor and fisherman, from his youth summering in Maine, to the schooner Hispaniola that he owned in the 1970s, to the sloops he would charter with friends in the Caribbean. Later, he took up tournament-level croquet, and had a 3/4 regulation court in front of his home in Watch Hill. He shared with his wife, Mary, a passion for daylilies, and hybridized several varieties, including one named in her honor. He had been a member of the Beach Club in Palm Beach, the Watch Hill Yacht Club, the Chatham Beach and Tennis Club, the Stage Harbor Yacht Club, and the Wilton Riding Club. He is survived by his sister, Paulina C. Kreger of New York, NY, and Redding Ridge, CT; his son, W. Robert "Bob" Kreger and his wife, Nancy Dean Kreger of Santa Fe, NM; his daughter, Sarah (Sally) K. Dale and her husband, Dennis Dale of Winchester, MA; his daughter Elizabeth "Betsy/Jenny" K. Flanagan and her husband Thomas R. Flanagan of Barrington, RI; and his stepdaughter, Mary (Mybl) Lynch of Dixon, NM, as well as three grandsons, Christopher Dale, and David and Alex Flanagan. He requested that there be no services. A private family gathering on the southern tip of Monomoy Island will be held in his honor at a later date. To express condolences and/or make donations Visit PalmBeachPost.com/obituaries

Published in The Palm Beach Post from July 3 to July 10, 2012

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