San Joaquin County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Haight, III, Charles A. "Chuck" November 16 2004
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The Record  November 18, 2004
Stockton
Charles A. "Chuck" Haight, III
Aug. 22, 1921 - Nov. 16, 2004



Charles A. Haight passed away on Tuesday, November 16, 2004, at a local 
hospital. He was born August 22, 1921, in Brooklyn, New York, to Charles A. and 
Ida M. Haight, both deceased. During his early years he lived in Pennsylvania, 
Oklahoma, and Missouri, traveling because of his father's business. Chuck 
earned his private pilot's license at the age of sixteen, having earned money 
for flying lessons by washing planes. He attended Brooklyn Technical High 
School, before enlisting in the United States Army Air Corps in 1941, serving 
first as a flight instructor training other military personnel at a base in 
Macon, Georgia. He then joined the 14th Air Force Unit in China, Burma, and 
India, flying missions across the Himalayas as a member of the Flying Tigers. 
After an honorable discharge in 1945, he signed on for a year's service on 
Leyte in the Philippines, as a member of the united States Signal Corps as a 
transmitter supervisor, drawing on his hobby of ham radio. Returning to the 
United States, he attended the Samuel Gompers School of Broadcast, working 
first as a radio disc jockey in Oroville, Santa Rosa, and Modesto. Chuck was 
known as the "night watchman" when he played late night jazz on KTRB in 
Modesto. He then entered television broadcasting, first in San Francisco, 
Channel 8 in Salinas, and then with KOVR Channel 13, building and operating the 
first transmitter on Mount Diablo, then moving the transmitter operations to 
Jackson and then to Walnut Grove. He retired from KOVR in 1983 as Chief 
Engineer, spending the next months in Saudi Arabia, working in television 
transmission for Al Kobar. His next years were spent in broadcast engineering 
for KCRA Channel 3 and Channel 19. Chuck's working career ended at Cosumnes 
River College, as an engineering specialist, setting up their long distance 
television learning centers. He lived in Stockton the last thirty-three years. 
he was a member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers, the Society of Motion 
Picture and Television Engineers, the American Radio Relay League, the Quarter 
Century Wireless Association, and San Joaquin County R.A.C.E.S., and the 
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. 
Chuck is survived by his loving wife of thirty-one years, Donna Haight, and by 
four loving sons, Randy Haight and wife Connie Callahan, Robin Haight, Jeff 
Alejandre and wife Bonnie McAtee, and Jerry Alejandre and wife, Julie. He was 
adored by his grandsons, Anthony Dodds, Justin Alejandre, Thomas Alejan- dre, 
and Joshua Alejandre, and by his granddaughters, Erin Haight, Jodi Alejandre, 
and Aimee Alejandre. He is also survived by his special friend, Iman Ahmadi of 
Salem, Oregon, and by his sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Carolyn and Larry 
Padgitt, and by his mother-in-law, Linda Stribley. His brother, Fred Sampson, 
of Metuchen, New Jersey, preceded him in death. 
A Celebration of Life will be held on Sunday, November 21, 2004, at 2:00 p.m. 
at the DeYoung Shoreline Chapel, 7676 Shoreline Drive. No visitation. Private 
committal. 
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to the American Heart 
Association, 1212 West Robinhood, Stockton, CA 95207 and the American Cancer 
Society, 207 East Alpine Avenue, Stockton, CA 95204. 
 




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