Charles Vincent Haycock

 

 

 

 

 

 







Charles Vincent Haycock

Born June 15, 1950 in Oakland, California. As Charlie would say, I was born in the middle of the month, middle of the year, and middle of the century!

Died, May 17, 2021 in Glendale, Arizona at age 70.

Charlie was the first-born child of C.V. Haycock and Anna Rita Haycock. Two and one-half years later, Charlie was blessed with a sister named Mary Alice. Charlie was married in his middle twenties for two years. Sadly, the marriage ended in divorce. Charlie never remarried and had no children. However, he had two lovely twin nieces whom he loved very much, Adrienne and Lauren, his sister Mary’s children. Charlie enjoyed watching Adrienne and Lauren play CYO basketball and softball. This brought him great joy and he was a very proud uncle, making every effort to attend all their games.

Charlie was a paperboy at a very early age. As his dad worked for the Oakland Tribune as a district advisor, Charlie became a paperboy at the earliest age possible which I believe was 10 or 12. He had a paper route for many years. He had a bicycle route when he was a young boy, and had a car route when he was old enough to drive.

When Charlie finished college and relocated back to the Bay Area he found himself back at the Oakland Tribune. I don’t recall what the dates were and what his position was, but I believe he worked with them at the time they closed the paper but I am not sure. In his late 40’s he worked as a teamster for the San Francisco Chronicle where he distributed papers in the Berkeley and downtown Oakland area. He later was transferred to the Fremont plant, where he became a transportation supervisor for the Hearst Corporation who owned the SF Chronicle. He retired from them in the November/December 2020 time frame.

Charlie graduated from Cal State Long Beach with a BS degree in Criminology.

In 1970 Charlie was drafted into the US Army due to the Vietnam war and was deployed to Germany to work was a medic. He was honorably discharged July 1976 and returned to the Bay Area. He lived in San Leandro, until the time he relocated to Long Beach to finish his degree at Cal State Long Beach in Criminology.

Charlie enjoyed the San Francisco Giants. He was an avid fan and was a season ticket holder for many years! He also enjoyed playing golf, cooking, eating good pizza (his favorite food along with hamburgers) and going to the movies. As a younger man, he really enjoyed working out and lifting weights with his friend, Paul Hagel.

The Haycock family was in the newspaper business. His Uncle Woody and his father C.V. worked for the Oakland Tribune as district managers, providing assistance to the young boys with their paper routes. Charlie’s father, C. V. passed away in February 1963 when Charlie was 12 and his sister, Mary was just 10 years old. Charlie’s mother Anna Rita (“Rita”) worked as an executive secretary at Saturn airways to support the family and Charlie continued with his paper route to help support the family. Mary learned to cook and had dinner ready for the family at the early age of 10. We had many encounters and family dinners with our cousins during our early childhood years.

Charlie liked to help people. He was a great salesman, selling trailers as a young man, selling boat insurance, and had his own Farmers Insurance agency selling life insurance. He favorite selling line to prospective clients: “Did you get the letter? What letter the client would say. He would respond, the letter saying that you were getting out alive! The client would chuckle, and Charlie would respond by saying: “then you need life insurance.” He was a good friend to many and a great supervisor of the men at the San Francisco Chronicle. He enjoyed that crew very much and made several good friends there. For many years he worked two jobs, his insurance agency and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is missed

Story line for this obituary submitted by Charlies sister Mary