In Memory

Charles Flatt

Charles Flatt



 
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03/05/14 03:15 PM #2    

Jim Keresey

I met Charlie our sophomore year, and he became a close friend. He was always a lot of fun, with a great sense of humor. His parents had one of the the first color TV's, and I recall spending many a Sunday night there watching "Bonanza". We also had some very memorable parties in their basement!


03/07/14 01:10 AM #3    

Susan Hawkey (Murphy)

He also had a great corvette convertible... Always upbeat and tons of fun! Wanted me to be his girl friend. Remember all the great parties! Life was certainly simpler 


03/18/14 06:21 PM #4    

Bob Eager

I grew up in the same neighborhood with Charlie and his brother Raymond, so I remember playing alot of street games with him. We moved out of the neighborhood in 1959 and I sort of lost track of Charlie after that. We saw each other in high school, but by that time we had made our own separate groups of friends. I do recall that he was a cool dude with slicked dark hair, and liked cars even at a young age.


03/26/14 11:04 PM #5    

Susan Hawkey (Murphy)

charlie and I were great friends! he had the coolest corvette around and was always fun to be with. He wished I could be his girlfriend but I was stuck on someone else. . Lots of great memories of Charlie! I am sorry to hear about his life problems and unhappiness. In HS he was a favorite.


06/24/14 05:38 PM #6    

Cynthia Frimmer (Mt. Hebron) (Williford)

It was so many years ago but in eighth grade you took me to see "summer place".  Every time it plays I think of you.  Am so sad to hear that you have passed.  You were my first "steady" boyfriend.  So many memories from Mt. Hebron.   Cynthia Frimmer Williford


09/03/14 07:53 PM #7    

Kip Siebert

Charlie and I were great friends in high school and after.  He always made everybody in the room feel good, and it was fun to be around him.  We both attended Newark College of Engineering night school for a couple of years, and we would meet in Salvatos Bar across the street for supper, shooting pool, drinking beer, and eating greasy fried ham sandwiches where the grease would run down your arm.  Many nights we never made it to class.

In 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Charlie and I and several of our close friends, (anybody let me know if you remember being a part of this), decided that if this was the last day of the world, we didn't want to spend it in school.  So we did something really worthwhile and went bowling.  Since the absentee list clearly revealed to the teachers that a bunch of close friends were absent on the same day, we got caught and handed a 3 day suspension, (now kids skip class routinely).

We all got together when we learned of our fate and decided we would run away from home that night and go to Indianapolis, Indiana, because who would ever look for us there.  We were supposed to go home for dinner that night and have dinner with our families, then meet that night and get a 12 hour head start before anybody would realize we were missing.  But Charlie could not go home for dinner that night because, as anybody who knew his family can appreciate, he could not face Lillian, his indomitable, controlling mother.  So the rest of us ended up on a missing person search in Brookdale Park that night, and our dreams of freedom were quickly doused.

I saw him a few times over the years on eastern Long Island, and was saddened by the many difficulties he faced.  But every time I saw him, it was always a good time.  He never let any of it break his spirit.


09/04/14 09:12 AM #8    

Doug Fritts

Charlie and I became friends I believe junior year. In my senior year Charlie convinced me to go with his brother and he to a central jersey catholic high school dance where he arranged me to me a wonderful girl. I had a great time takking and dancing with her- alas I've forgotton her name but will always remember her- she was also played the harp wonderfully. I will always remember Charlie for the wonderful experience , he had such a fun and adventureous attitude.


09/04/14 11:18 AM #9    

Robert Callard

Charlie was virtually my next door neighbor (two doors away).  We did everything together from building 'buggies' to ride down Snake Hill in Brookdale Park to working on real cars in high school.   Lost touch with Charlie until the late 80s when my son was hanging around a kid named "Flatt" in Easton.  Turns out to be Charlie's oldest.   Small world.  


09/04/14 02:53 PM #10    

Claire Widmark (Jennings)

Kip is so right about Charlie's mother, Lillian.  I went with Charlie for 2 or 3 years (a lifetime back then) and Lillian never liked or trusted me.  I guess she thought I would currupt her little boy - Ha! If she only knew.  It has taken me months to write on this memory board because I was so saddened to hear of Charlie's passing.  I cannot think of High school or that time in my life without all the wonderful happy memories of Charlie, who was, as everyone has mentioned, an upbeat fun loving person to be around.  I was determined to track down both Charlie & Steve Sheft and talk them into attending our 50th reunion since both chickened out of attending our 25th.  What a shock to learn they were both deceased - a perfect example to never put off contacting a long lost friend.  So sorry I never called, Charlie.  So sorry for your suffering but grateful for all the good memories.  I send hugs and best wishes from here to wherever your next journey takes you.


09/18/14 09:06 PM #11    

Steve Clarke (Mt Hebron)

Claire - That is beautiful. What a tribute to Charlie that you, Kip, Cynthia, Doug, Susan, Bob and everyone have written these eloquent...and Kip's pretty funny...memories/comments about him. I don't qualify/rate to say anythng about Charlie, as my brain fails in remembering/picturing him (at Mt. Hebron?) before I left town summer of '60, but he sounds like someone I (and everyone) would have liked alot and really gotten a kick out of spending time with. It's fun and heartwarming just to have the chance to read about him in your vignettes. Sounds like he definitely could have starred in a classic high school movie about that era! I feel for you guys...it's brutal losing special old pals.


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