Charles Franklin Curtis II

CURTIS

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Date: 12/28/2024 at 22:34:25

Charles “Chuck” Franklin Curtis II of Largo, died Dec. 25, 2007, at Morton Plant Hospital.

Born on January 7, 1922, in Clinton, Iowa, Curtis attended Avon Old Farms Prep School in Connecticut, Dartmouth College and Carlton College in Minnesota. Curtis served as a first lieutenant in the Army Air Corps during World War II as a bombardier on a B-17 bomber with the 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham, England.

Curtis was shot down over Germany in November 1944. He worked in the family business, Curtis Woodworks, in Clinton and moved to Florida in 1956 when he founded Curtis Pools which he owned until his retirement in 1990.

Curtis married Marian Pickelmann in 1962. He was a member of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, a charter member of Clearwater East Rotary Club and was a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary Foundation International. He was vice president and director of the Master Pools Guild and was also a member of Morton Plant Foundation, Donald Roebling Society, a charter member of Hunter Blood Center Foundation, American Ex POWs and the American Legion.

He was an avid golfer and boater all his life and was a member of Belleair Country Club and Clearwater Yacht Club.

Curtis is survived by Marian, his wife of 45 years; children, Andrew, Richard, William, Carolyn and Vernon, Randall Pickelmann and Jane Pickelmann Long; eight grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a son, Charles III.

Memorial contributions may be made to Prince of Peace Lutheran Church Building Fund or to the Rotary Club of Clearwater East Foundation at P.O. Box 4662, Clearwater, FL 33758.