Charles Perhamus, age 78, of Middletown, Rhode Island, passed away surrounded by his loving family on February 19, 2021.
Charles “Harlow” was born in Rochester, NY to Charles and Catherine (MacLarty) Perhamus and grew up in Caledonia, NY. He graduated from Caledonia-Mumford Central High School in 1960 and went on to earn his B.S. in Electrical Engineering on a band scholarship from Michigan State University in 1964. His career in the defense industry began as a field engineer traveling to Hawaii, Europe and Asia aboard the USS Observation and Compass Island. While working for Sperry Univac he met his wife Donna Conron of Uniondale, NY on his 26th birthday and they were married six months later on December 21, 1968. Their early married years took them to Virginia Beach and Cape Canaveral to work on the first moon landing. A new job at Litton Industries brought them to Van Nuys, California and then to Pascagoula, Mississippi for the building of the first LHA ship at Ingalls Shi