Donald Edward Gatlin (1941 - 2023)

Born 18 Mar 1941 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

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Died 2 Jan 2023 at age 81 in Red Bank, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

Donald Gatlin is a Military Veteran.
Served in the United States Army National Guard, 50th Armored Division, 104th Engineer Battalion

Donald Gatlin has Swedish ancestors

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Donald Gatlin has Irish ancestors.

Donald Edward Gatlin was born at Passavant Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois on March 18, 1941 to Henry Cornelius Gatlin and Helen Martha Marie Anderson. He grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois and graduated from Maine Township High School in 1959. Shortly before he left to attend Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, he and his family moved to Ridgewood, New Jersey. While at college, he met another Ridgewood resident, Karen Boe, who would become his wife. He was a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity. He graduated in 1963 with a B.S. in business and a major in accounting. He later did graduate work in taxation at Pace University in New York.

He served in the National Guard's 50th Armored Division, 104th Engineer Battalion. He was called upon to serve during the Newark Riots in July 1967.

He began working for Sterling Drug, Inc. in 1964 as a tax accountant. He was named tax manager in 1975 and assistant treasurer in 1980.

Don and Karen married on April 18, 1964 at the Old Paramus Reformed Church in Ridgewood, New Jersey. After a honeymoon in Bermuda, they lived in Saddle Brook, New Jersey. They bought their first house in Oakland, New Jersey, and in 1973 they moved to Wyckoff, New Jersey, where their two children grew up. They moved to Holmdel, New Jersey in 2018.

Don passed away on January 2, 2023 at River View Medical Center in Red Bank, New Jersey. He was interred at Holmdel Cemetery & Mausoleum.

Sources

• Gatlin, Donald E. Personal recollections, as relayed to E. Gatlin.
• Illinois. Cook County. Birth certificate no. 11523, Donald Edward Gatlin, 1941.
• "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1949", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZSG-KPT5 : Wed Nov 15 06:45:32 UTC 2023), Entry for Donald Edward Gatlin and Henry Cornelius Gatlin, 18 Mar 1941.
• "United States 1950 Census", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6X1N-G5M6 : Thu Oct 05 21:23:43 UTC 2023), Entry for Henry C Gatlin and Helen A Gatlin, April 1, 1950.
• New Jersey. Marriage certificate no. 64047, Donald Edward Gatlin and Karen Pauline Boe, 1964.
• New Jersey. Death certificate no. 20230000056, Donald Edward Gatlin, 2023.
• Obituary, Donald Edward Gatlin. Wooley-Boglioli & Holmdel Funeral Homes, Jan 2023. [1]
• Obituary, Henry C. Gatlin. Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan 2002, p. 7.
• Find A Grave, Donald Edward "Don" Gatlin