Yolo-Alameda-Humboldt County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....HAMILTON , John Douglas  September 8 2000
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“Winters Express,” Thursday, September 14, 2000
John Douglas Hamilton

John Douglas Hamilton, 42, a long-term resident of Winters, died suddenly of
heart failure in Phoenix, Arizona, on Sept. 8, 2000.  John was born in Berkeley
on October 8, 1957.

John grew up in northern California on a ranch west of Winters and on a ranch
along the Mattole River at Honeydew, Humboldt County owned by his grandparents,
Ben and Eva Etter.

During his youth John traveled widely.  When John was 15 he routinely drove a
supply vehicle alone across the Namib Desert to resupply a remote research camp
where is (sic) parents and several graduate students were conducting research on
wildlife.  He discovered a long over-looked beetle species named cardiosis
hamiltonulus, a species that proved to be the key to unraveling the meaning of
the extraordinary species diversity of other Namid Desert species.  His find was
so spectacularly different from all other known forms that it was named after
him the day he discovered it in 1967 by the famed Austrian entomologist, Charles
Koch.

In recent years he was a successful businessman in the Phoenix area, owning
several small businesses involving mobile mechanic auto repair, light
construction and self-help construction.  An inveterate inventor and automobile
mechanic, John as working on a mechanism to desalinize seawater at the time of
his death.  In the Davis, area he once owned and operated a spiritual healing
center.  He maintained a long-term interest in helping the less fortunate to
improve themselves and had what he felt was a revolutionary reading course under
development.

His parents, Bill and Marion Hamilton of Winters, his sister Susan Hamilton,
also of Winters, nieces Lily Starling of Olympia, Washington, Emma Pfanner of
Winters and nephew William Pfanner, also of Winters, survive John.


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Submitted with the permission of the “Winters Express,” 312 Railroad Ave.,
Winters, CA 95694.  

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