Charles Maitland 'Chuck' Simpson

Charles Maitland 'Chuck' Simpson

Charles Maitland "Chuck" Simpson, 88, was born at home in Nutley, N.J., on Jan., 9, 1924, to Scottish immigrants, Charles Simpson and Jeanie Campbell Maitland. Jeanie died within hours from birth complications. Later, when Charles remarried, his new wife, Marion Brock, had "Campbell" added to Chuck's names, out of respect for his birth mother. He had two older sisters, Sadie and Mary.

In January 1942, he graduated from Nutley High School, where he was described in his senior yearbook as "handsome, romantic, and peppy. " He was in fact peppy enough that he was o...