CARLTON HARPER HAND 9/19/30-7/6/07

>> Ruth Hynds is sadly announcing the death of Carlton Hand, her

>> beloved husband of twenty-six years. Carlton grew up in LaCanada,

>> CA, cherishing colorful teachers at LaCanada Junior High like Miss

>> Tingey, Charles Frederic Lindsay, Judith Wolfe. He graduated with a

>> degree in English Literature from Occidental College in 1953. He

>> served in the Signal Corps in Germany with the Occupation Army,

>> bucking injustice wherever he found it. He considered a life in the

>> ministry as well as pursuing a graduate degree in Literature. After

>> marriage to Elizabeth Hopkins Hand and starting a family, Carlton

>> began his career in insurance under his dad, Arthur Stone Hand, at

>> Brooks Randall Insurance in Hollywood, CA., later working as an

>> insurance underwriter with Allstate where he became known as a

>> patient trainer of young agents whose calm mind could always help

>> them find their way out of confusion. Friendships made at Allstate

>> he maintained. Carlton and Elizabeth Hopkins Hand started a first

>> family in 1954, two daughters, Carole who preceeded him in death, and

>> Cynthia Hand Runstrom, now in Orange County, CA with three

>> grandchildren. Elizabeth died in 1980.

>>

>> In 1981when he and Ruth Hynds married, he gained two daughters,

>> Deborah Katie Hynds and Amanda Hynds Watts. Orange County sunshine

>> forced him inside, so when choosing the next place to live he listed

>> redwoods, the wind in the trees, close to the ocean, and we moved to

>> Gualala, CA on the redwood coast. He loved Gualala above all other

>> places because it was a place “where he could be himself.” When his

>> Parkinsons illness became apparent we moved to Boise to be near his

>> brother Dave and that large family which became close in the five

>> years before his death.

>>

>> Carlton was a generous listener, a warm-hearted man who did not judge

>> others. He ached over the path our nation has been on, supporting

>> KPFA Berkeley and Democracy Now. He preferred the Nation Magazine

>> which came on tape, and was an enthusiastic supporter of statesmen

>> who dare to lead. Carlton ardently wanted the world to work well, to

>> have us all get along in our families, friendships, communities and

>> he lived his code: “There is no conceptual truth. There is only

>> love.”

>>

>> Carlton prized time alone in the dunes of Death Valley in his 1937

>> Chevy Coupe “that he never should have sold.” He once raced a small

>> plane along Highway 101 on his big Harley Davidson. He’s missed

>> every hour, every day.