Philip Andrew Hamilton, age 54 years, of Holland Township, NJ, died peacefully at the Hunterdon Medical Center, Raritan Township, on Monday, April 8, 2024, surrounded by his loving family.

Born in Buffalo, NY, on March 8, 1970, Phil is the son of Howard and the late Dolores Hamilton.

Phil was an engineer with the soul of an artist. While he had a degree in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, he had worked as a controls system engineer, in places as diverse as a chocolate plant and Benjamin Moore Paint. The final job of his career was working as an engineer for Otterbine Barebo creating new aerators and fountains for ponds.

Being an engineer funded the things he loved to do. He had so many interests and hobbies it is hard to cover them all. His deepest passion was blowing glass and a major part of the attraction was that glass blowing is challenging and near impossible to master. He also loved wood working and metal forging. In the kitchen he was a chocolate maker and every holiday season made truffles. In the last years of his life, he started making chocolate from raw ingredients and was planning on roasting his own beans to make chocolate bars.

Phil and his wife, Sascha, traveled extensively and had a large group of travel buddies. They had done horseback riding vacations on 4 continents, most recently in Turkey and the United States. Phil was always willing to try new foods, new experiences, and new places. Phil’s ashes will be made into stones and one of those stones will be taken to all the places he will not get to go with Sascha in the coming years.

He loved books and auctions and could not get enough of either. It made him widely well read and ready to fix anything, often in creative and unexpected ways. He would never turn down a Broadway show and loved poking around in New York City or wherever he went.

Quiet in a crowd, it was almost guaranteed that he made the funniest comment at any gathering, even if he only spoke once.

Phil and Sascha, in addition to their day jobs, had a small hobby farm on which they had alpacas, duck, guinea fowl, and chickens. They could often be found trying to hold the old farm and farmhouse together.

Surviving are his loving wife, Sascha; his father, Howard; a brother, Stephen Hamilton and his wife, Kristine; one niece, Katarina; one nephew, Austin; and many dear friends.

Friends and family are invited to gather together to celebrate Phil’s life on Sunday, June 2, 2024, from 2:00-4:00 p.m., at Wright & Ford Family Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 38 State Highway 31, Flemington, NJ.

Following the gathering, a Life Celebration Service will take place at the funeral home at 4:00 p.m. and to which all are welcome.

If you are unable to attend in person, the service will be live-streamed with the link being active at 3:45 p.m. on Sunday. 

You are encouraged to visit Phil’s permanent life celebration site at www.wrightfamily.com to light a candle of hope, leave messages of condolence, share words of comfort and recollection, and post photographs of his life.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild, 3600 Welsh Road, Philadelphia, PA 19136 or online by clicking HERE.

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Wright & Ford, your local, family owned & operated “Life Celebration Home”

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