Charles Hovey Clifford of Falmouth, a US Army veteran, died on November 24 at Cape Cod Hospital from complications of a fall. He was 88.

Born in Boston to Frances (Bullard) and Kenneth Clifford, he grew up in Rockland, spending 12 years in the Rockland public school system alongside his future wife, Mildred Rose Monahan. Known as "Hovey," summers were spent finding snails and fiddler crabs and building sandcastles along the shores of Buttermilk Bay.

Upon graduating from high school he took a job at Court Square Press in Boston; it was on the nightly train home from this job that he re-met his school friend, Mildred Rose Monahan, whom he would marry in 1965.

He was drafted into the Army in November 1959. He attended basic training in Fort Knox, Kentucky, and liquid propellant school in A

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