Charles L. "Chuck" Loucks

SODUS POINT/ LYONS - Charles "Chuck" L. Loucks, 75 of Overlook Dr., passed away on Monday (August 30, 2010) at the DeMay Living Center in Newark.
Family and friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday (September 2) at Weeks-Keysor Funeral Home, 5 Phelps St., Lyons. A Funeral Service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday (September 3) at the funeral home. Burial will be in South Lyons Cemetery with Military Honors.
Contributions may be made to a charity of choice in Chuck's memory.
Chuck was born on July 21, 1935, in Buffalo, a son to the late Wayne and Freda Mansfield Loucks. He graduated from Lyons High School in 1953 and entered the U.S. Navy Seabees shortly after. He was stationed on Kwajalein, Guam, Philippines and Hawaii, working as a mason and was discharged in 1957. As a civilian, he was employed with Potter-DeWitt Highway Construc­tion Corporation. He re-entered the U.S.N. Seabees in 1966 and was sent to Vietnam after advanced combat training in Gulf­port, Miss. After 10 months he returned to Gulfport for survival and counter insurgency training after being selected for "Mobile Construction Battalion #74", a special 13 man Seabee Team, 74002. After three months of intense training, he deployed once again for Vietnam. After returning, his family joined him for tours in the Azores, Hawaii and California. He spent four years traveling for the State Department as a Construction Superinten­dent in many countries in Africa, Europe and the USSR. He retired from the Navy Seabees in 1981 as a highly decorated "Senior Chief Builder." From 1982 to 1990 he had his own small construction business. In 1990 he was employed by Humphrey & Hardine Construction Manager of NYC as a construction superintendent at the NYS Chiropractic College in Seneca Falls and also Hobart-William Smith College in Geneva.
He retired in 1992 and stayed active with his interests, namely his family's genealogy and his daughters and their families.
He remarried in 2002 to the former Elizabeth "Betty" Wickum Tyler.
He is survived by his wife, Betty; two daughters, Robin (Garrett) Russell of Clifton Springs and Dawn Vogel of Kentucky; grandchildren, Jessica Taylor, Danielle and Joshua Vogel; brother, Richard (Ann) Loucks of Pennsylvania; step children, Linda Hixson, Lori (Andrew) Steel and Robbie (Jennifer) Tyler; seven step grandchildren; and one step great-granddaughter.
He was predeceased by his wives, Patricia in 1986 and Jo-Ann in 1999; son, Guy R. Loucks in 1991; and son-in-law, Gary Taylor in 2007.