Charles 'Chuck' Clarence Hotle,

      Charles "Chuck" Clarence Hotle, 92, of Washington, died Friday, Sept. 28, 2007 at the Halcyon House Health Center in Washington.

Funeral Services have been set for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007, at the Beatty Funeral Home in Washington with Ilene Schnicker officiating. Burial will be in the Elm Grove Cemetery with military honors. Visitation will begin noon Tuesday at the funeral home with family receiving friends from 6-8 p.m. Memorials in the name of Chuck Hotle have been designated to Hospice of Washington Co. or Historical Society Dublin Store.

      Chuck was born June 9, 1915, in Dutch Creek Township to C.C. and Ethel (Augustine) Hotle. He graduated from West Chester High School in 1933, attended Washington Jr. College and the University of Iowa where he studied journalism. He joined the Army in the summer of 1941 and was posted to guard the California coast after Pearl Harbor. While in California, he married Mabel (Sally) Wiley of Washington, Iowa on June 14, 1942. After graduation from Officer Cadet School he was assigned to the 173rd Field Artillery and sent to North Africa and then Italy. Over the course of the next three years, Lt. Hotle saw action at Monte Cassino, Rome and the Gustav Line, as the Fifth Army battled its way up the boot of Italy.