Charles Dean ’Chuck’ Hamilton was 57 when he died in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, on Thursday, March 11, 2004. Initial newspaper notices presented his passing in obituary form, listing family — wife Diana; sons Tony and Chris; Casey Fergeson and Shannon Mapel; mother Nancy Estes; and a dozen grandchildren — and funeral arrangements with visitation and a graveside service at Geuda Springs Cemetery in Kansas. Early public notices did not describe how he died.