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<p><em>Gerald Samuel “Jerry” Hawley</em> was born January 10, 1934 in Toledo, OH to Sam Malone and Florence Enright Hawley. Jerry was a shy, studious child who loved history and won the Ohio state history prize as a senior in high school. He was an Eagle Scout and played trumpet in his high school band. He also used his musical skill as trumpeter at Boy Scout summer camps. He attended Miami University of Ohio for a year before receiving an appointment to USMA in the throes of the Korean War period.</p>
<p>After graduation and training at Fort Benning, GA, Jerry was off to Germany in the Infantry, where his main hobby was owning a Porsche and seeing the countryside. Fort Devens, MA followed and then off to Vietnam serving as an intelligence advisor in a Chinese village and later a tour as personal aide to General Paul Harkins in Saigon, escorting the “best and brightest.” Jerry transferred to Military Intelligence and returned to the States, teaching at the Intelligence School in Baltimore, MD. While there he met and married his wife, Carolyn.</p>
<p>In August 1967 Jerry entered the FAST program to become a China specialist. He spent a year at the University of Michigan getting a master’s degree in Asian studies. He followed that by attending DLI at Monterey, CA for a year, learning the Chinese language, and then on to Taichung, Taiwan for another 18 months of Chinese at the State Department Language School. While in Taiwan, their daughter, Gwen, was born at the Navy hospital in Taipei in 1970. </p>
<p>Early in his tour in Taichung, Jerry learned his next assignment would be as an assistant Army liaison officer in Hong Kong. After completing language schooling in Taiwan, he returned briefly to DC for attaché schooling and then on to Hong Kong for three years of wining and dining his counterparts from other countries and sending back reports to DIA. While in Hong Kong, the family expanded again with the birth of son Scott. In September 1974 Jerry was finally back in the Washington area with DIA, both at Arlington Hall and later at the Pentagon.</p>
<p>He retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel in 1980 and stayed in Northern Virginia in sales and government contracting with Synectics and SAIC while educating his children in Fairfax County schools. The family were all active members of Fairfax Baptist Church.</p>
<p>After the children finished high school and college, Carolyn convinced him to retire again in 1998 for the tranquil waters of the Northern Neck of Virginia, where they lived for 18 years on a quiet cove of Dividing Creek near the Chesapeake Bay. He bought a small boat and took the Coast Guard Auxiliary safe boating class, which prompted him to join the Auxiliary. He stayed busy with the Auxiliary for 18 years, serving in many roles, including two years as commandant of Flotilla 33. Continuing his love of history, he served as a docent at Historic Christ Church in nearby Weems, VA. If you had a history question, he was the man to call. Jerry and Carolyn were also very active in community choirs and sang in their church choir at Kilmarnock Baptist Church.</p>
<p>Loved by all who knew him, Jerry was a quiet, humble man with a very original sense of humor. He also enjoyed helping others and was quick to assist whatever the problem.</p>
<p>In 2016 Jerry and Carolyn moved to a continuing care retirement community, Patriots Colony (PC), Williamsburg, VA. In 2020, with his Parkinson’s worsening, it was necessary for him to move into long term care at PC. He received good care, and the staff all loved him because, one, he wasn’t a complainer and, two, his quick wit. Jerry died there on April 2, 2022 as the result of a bad fall caused by his Parkinson’s disease.</p>
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