Charles Earl Dunnington

Charles Earl Dunnington died in Rochester on August 9, 2026. He was 78. Born on October 12, 1947, into a Anglo Northeast household that treated work as a language. He learned early that a day is something you finish, not something you wait for. He hung over rivers in a harness that became a second spine. A shining buckle was pride; rust was the enemy he understood. Colleagues still mention a harness buckle shining from use. He married Janice in 1969. They kept a house that stayed modest when the neighborhood did not. They raised a daughter through public schools and ordinary weather. After Janice died in 2019, he kept the routines that still made sense: the walk, the garden, the Sunday call. Neighbors remember covered dishes that arrived without a speech. He liked early mornings before the heat or the noise. He died in Rochester, among streets he never needed to explain. The extra coffee is still in the thermos.