For a working-class, Brooklyn boy, who was a high school dropout, Hamill lived a pretty cosmopolitan life.
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Thomas Wickham of Lee, former TWA ‘pilot of the year’
He was made a captain with TWA in 1959, flew the media “chase” plane for Gerald Ford’s presidential run in 1976 and, in 1984, was named the company’s “Pilot of the Year” for skillfully averting the crash of his fully-loaded 747 while experiencing a mechanical failure flying from New York’s JFK to Rome.
Latham ‘Ed’ Ovens, 77, of Lee
He served in the U.S. Coast Guard for several years before settling in New York City where he worked in the charts department of Billboard Magazine.