World War II Navy Veteran Marvin Hume Dies, Held Sunset Ceremonies to Honor Military Vets

ERMA – Marvin Irvin Hume, 94, of this community passed away April 25, 2015 at Cape Regional Medical Center.
The World War II Navy veteran won wide acclaim for patriotic sunset ceremonies held nightly on his property at Sunset Beach overlooking Delaware Bay near the sunken SS Atlantus. Each ceremony paid homage to a veteran whose casket flag had flown that day on Hume’s flagpole. Those ceremonies were filmed and broadcast on national television networks.
Lower Township held its Sept. 11 Patriot Day ceremony at Hume’s site.
There is a long waiting list of families wishing to honor their heroes at Marvin’s Flag Pole and each ceremony is attended by hundreds of people as they pay their respects to the fallen.
Hume was proudest when the huge, traveling Patriot Flag was unfurled at Wildwoods Convention Center, March 31, 2011. The ceremony was attended by many local school children.
Hume was a 1938 graduate of Collingswood High School and attended the University of Pennsylvania until entering the Navy during World War II.
He worked as a tool and die maker at McDonald Aircraft in St Louis, Mo. For 25 years, he owned and operated the Boardwalk Rock & Shell Shop in Atlantic City.
In 1973 he relocated the operation to Sunset Beach where he worked at the family business (gift shops). He was a member of DAV Chapter 44 of Del Haven, Chapter 184 of the American Legion of Wildwood, and the Peterson Little Post 386 of the VFW in Cape May.
Hume is survived by his life companion of 30 years Patricia Wolfe; his sons: Larry (Michele) Hume and Brian Hume; and his daughters: Kathy Hume and Sharon (Chick) Bloom. Also surviving are six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held at noon April 30 at Cape May Lutheran Church, 509 Pittsburgh Ave., Cape May. Friends and family will be received from 6 to 9 p.m. April 29, at Evoy Funeral Home, 3218 Bayshore Road, North Cape May and then from 10 a.m. to noon April 30 at Cape May Lutheran Church.
Interment will follow at Cold Spring Cemetery, 780 Seashore Rd, Cold Spring. The family suggests donation in his memory to: The Run for the Fallen, PO Box 474, Wrightstown, N.J. 08562-0474 or The Wounded Warrior Project, PO Box 758517, Topeka, Kan. 66675.