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Charles Hamel Obituary
CHAPIN, SC-- Charles Scott Hamel, 72, died Monday, March 1, 2010, at Providence Hospital in Columbia. Born in Virginia April 9, 1937, Mr. Hamel was the son of the late Charles D. Hamel and Ethel Scott Hamel of Washington, DC. Mr. Hamel was a graduate of Virginia Episcopal School of Lynchburg, VA, studied classics at the University of Illinois and, for a time, taught Latin at various private schools in South Carolina.
In the 1970's Mr. Hamel launched the Foundation for American Education, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and promoting classical traditions in the American educational system. Until his death, he also served as publisher of Southern Partisan magazine, a journal dedicated to introducing the intellectual traditions of the old South to a new generation.
Funeral services for Mr. Hamel will be held Sunday, March 7, 2010, at 3:00 PM at St. Jacob's Lutheran Church, where he was a member of the congregation, with interment following in the church cemetery.
Caughman-Harman Funeral Home, Irmo/St. Andrews Chapel is assisting with the arrangements.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Jacob's Lutheran Church, 844 Columbia Avenue, Chapin, SC 29036.
www.caughmanharmanfuneralhome.com
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Andy Todd
October 11, 2010
I knew Charles when I was a 10 and he was a senior at VA Episcopal School. My dad was his pediatric allergist. He had had terrible asthma attacks when he was a child growing up in Virginia. My dad saved his life, and we were invited to his father's farm in Fairfax. He was a soft-spoken young man, and a true southern gentleman. He had no siblings and no heirs. The end of a wonderful Southern family line.
Oran Smith
March 6, 2010
Charles was so kind to my family and remembered all of their birthdays right to the end. I couldn't have asked for a better friend over the last 20 years.
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