He was the architect of this building, built as 55-plus senior housing in 1979. A resident of Winchester for over 51 years, Pete lived his remaining years at Country Club Heights in Woburn, MA, an assisted-living facility, though he mostly lived independently. They moved to the Boston area after a honeymoon on Nantucket. In 1956, he married Abigail Cargill McCormick in Princeton, West Virginia.

Bill, for which he was very proud and grateful, and was the first in his family to graduate from college. While there, he was a member of the Theta Chi Fraternity and participated in the cooperative education program, so he worked while also attending classes.

Hamilton attended the University of Cincinnati from 1946 to 1952 and graduated with a B.S. He was stationed in the Philippines for the duration of the war as a radio communications operator, and was discharged in late 1945 with the rank of Corporal. After high school, Pete enlisted in the Army Air Corps and attended basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi. At Fairmont High, Pete played basketball and was the captain of the football team, as was his father at the same high school.

He was raised and educated in Fairmont and graduated from Fairmont High School with the class of 1944. Hamilton was born in Fairmont, WV, the son of the late Herbert Lewis and Sarah Elizabeth (Kuhn) Hamilton. He was the beloved husband of Abigail (McCormick) Hamilton for 54 years until her death in 2010. Herbert Lewis Hamilton, Jr., “Pete”, age 89, of Woburn, formerly a long-time resident of Winchester, passed away unexpectedly on Maof natural causes.

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