THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, August 19, 1994 TAG: 9408190632
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY TOM HOLDEN, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Medium: 56 lines
Clyde D. Hathaway, a Virginia Beach Police Department captain who helped forge many of the department's community police programs, died Thursday at home. He was 64.
The son of a flower-bulb farmer, Hathaway grew up in West Islip, Long Island, N.Y., and graduated from Long Island Agricultural and Technical Institute in Farmingdale before entering the Air Force as a corporal during the Korean War.
While in the Air Force he married Margaret Fisher on Aug. 11, 1951, in Schenectady, N.Y., and eventually moved to Virginia Beach, where the couple began raising a family.
After managing the Tidewater Bulb Farm on property in what is now known as Hilltop, Hathaway joined the Princess Anne County Police Department in 1961. When Virginia Beach merged with the county, he joined the Virginia Beach Police Department.
He rose through the ranks as the city grew from a small seaside resort to a sprawling suburban city with complicated police problems for which Hathaway sought creative solutions.
Often called a model officer, Hathaway helped form Virginia Beach Crime Solvers, truancy abatement programs and police athletic leagues, while also working closely with the city's large Filipino community.
Not content with police work alone, Hathaway also was active in several community groups. He founded the Back Bay Pungo Civic League and coached the Pungo Pals softball team, which won consecutive city championships and twice competed in the national championships.
In 1969 he received a degree from the Southern Police Institute at the University of Louisville, Ky., and later earned an associate's degree from St. Leo College.
He became the first commander of the newly formed Fourth Precinct, which is in Kempsville, itself the city's largest borough. He had been on leave from the job following surgery March 22 for a brain tumor.
He is survived by his wife, Margaret, their six children, Clyde D. Hathaway III, of Weems, Va.; Susan H. Seavy, of Mesa, Ariz.; Anne H. Zimba, of Edenton, N.C.; Meg H. Mountcastle, of Triangle, Va.; Barbara J. Hathaway, of Virginia Beach; Jennifer K. Hathaway, of Evington, Va.; and nine grandchildren.
A police funeral with full honors will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Church of the Ascension.
Flowers or donations can be sent to St. John The Apostle Catholic Church building fund, 800 Los Conaes Way, Virginia Beach, Va., 23456, or Virginia Beach Crime Solvers, care of the Virginia Beach Police Department, Municipal Center, Virginia Beach, Va., 23456. ILLUSTRATION: Photo
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