Charles H. Hamblen Jr.

HAMBLEN, Charles H. Jr. Died in Jacksonville, on April 23, 2008, at age 91. An East Tennessee native, he was a graduate of Carson-Newman College, where he was captain of the basketball team and president of the Student Government Association. He served in the Navy during WWII as an officer in the South Pacific and became athletic director and instructor in political science at St. Petersburg Junior College in Florida in 1946. He did graduate studies at the University of Florida, where he was named Phi Kappa Phi, and at Columbia University as a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation. He served as professor of political science and in administrative positions at the University of Florida, DeKalb College in Atlanta, GA, & Central Florida Community College in Ocala, FL. In 1963, he joined the U.S. Office of Education as senior program officer in higher education in Washington, DC and Atlanta. From 1991-1998, he and his wife were members of the Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg. His wife, Mildred Miller Hamblen, a native of St. Petersburg, died in June 2005, in Jacksonville. They were married for 59 years. He is survived by a son, Charles H. Hamblen III, of Jacksonville, and a brother, Lyons A. Hamblen of Hendersonville, NC. A memorial will be held at Hardage-Giddens Funeral Home, 1701 Beach Boulevard, Jacksonville Beach, 11 am, Saturday, May 10, 2008. In lieu of flowers, a gift may be made to the Dr. Charles H. and Mildred M. Hamblen Endowed Scholarship Fund, Central Florida Community College, P.O. Box 1388, Ocala, FL 34478. Arrangements by Hardage-Giddens Funeral Home, Jacksonville Beach, FL 904-249-2374