Remembering Charles Mathers of Sea Girt NJ
at the 2023 Sea Girt 5K
This past Saturday my friend Sue Kizis and I ran in the 32nd Annual Sea Girt 5K. As it always is, it was a great event. As it always is, the post-race gathering at Fratello's Restaurant was also a great event. It was there where we saw this gentleman wearing this shirt. Not knowing who Charles Mathers was, I took a photograph of him wearing it and then, did a bit of research into who the man is whose life and whose loss inspired this love.
Charles Mathers of Marsh McLennan was one of three residents of Sea Girt, New Jersey killed on September 11, 2001. He had lived in Sea Girt with Margaret, his wife of thirty-nine years. It is where they raised their three children. It is where he served his community as a member of the Sea Girt Volunteer Fire Department's Fire Company No. 1 for twenty-five years.
Mr. Mathers was a Managing Director for Marsh Power Group in the World Trade Center's North Tower. He graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1962 and thereafter served this nation in the United States Navy for six years.
He loved his family. He loved his community. He loved his country. His life was cut short.
Sea Girt September 11, 2001 Memorial
May his memory live forever.
-AK
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