SFC
U.S. Army
World War II
Korea
Vietnam
Anchorage Daily News January 20, 1988
Graveside services for Robert M. Wike, 71, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Fort Richardson National Cemetery with Chaplain Moore officiating. There will be a visitation from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight at Witzleben Family Funeral Homes and Crematory, Bragaw Chapel. Mr. Wike died Jan. 16 at Providence Hospital. Born Nov. 28, 1916, in Auburn, Pa., he served in the U.S. Army for more than 22 years before his retirement in 1963. He then moved to Alaska and worked as a heavy equipment operator for the civil service. He was a member of VFW Post 3975 in Auburn, Pa., and the NCO Club. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, sightseeing, baseball, boxing, and looking for moose in the woods. He leaves his wife, Margarete, of Anchorage; his son, Robert, of Tallahassee, Fla.; his brothers, John, of Schuylkill Haven, Pa., Jim, of Bloomington, Ill., and Jean, of Auburn, Pa.; his sisters, Mary Reppert, of Hamburg, Pa., Tots Sunday, of Port Clinton, Pa., Ruth Hain, of Reading, Pa., and Dorothy Stewart, of Auburn, Pa.; and three grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be sent to the Bob Hope International Heart Research Institute, 528 18th Ave., Seattle, 98122. Burial will be in Fort Richardson National Cemetery with full military honors.
U.S. Army
World War II
Korea
Vietnam
Anchorage Daily News January 20, 1988
Graveside services for Robert M. Wike, 71, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Fort Richardson National Cemetery with Chaplain Moore officiating. There will be a visitation from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight at Witzleben Family Funeral Homes and Crematory, Bragaw Chapel. Mr. Wike died Jan. 16 at Providence Hospital. Born Nov. 28, 1916, in Auburn, Pa., he served in the U.S. Army for more than 22 years before his retirement in 1963. He then moved to Alaska and worked as a heavy equipment operator for the civil service. He was a member of VFW Post 3975 in Auburn, Pa., and the NCO Club. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, sightseeing, baseball, boxing, and looking for moose in the woods. He leaves his wife, Margarete, of Anchorage; his son, Robert, of Tallahassee, Fla.; his brothers, John, of Schuylkill Haven, Pa., Jim, of Bloomington, Ill., and Jean, of Auburn, Pa.; his sisters, Mary Reppert, of Hamburg, Pa., Tots Sunday, of Port Clinton, Pa., Ruth Hain, of Reading, Pa., and Dorothy Stewart, of Auburn, Pa.; and three grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be sent to the Bob Hope International Heart Research Institute, 528 18th Ave., Seattle, 98122. Burial will be in Fort Richardson National Cemetery with full military honors.
SFC
U.S. Army
World War II
Korea
Vietnam
Anchorage Daily News January 20, 1988
Graveside services for Robert M. Wike, 71, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Fort Richardson National Cemetery with Chaplain Moore officiating. There will be a visitation from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight at Witzleben Family Funeral Homes and Crematory, Bragaw Chapel. Mr. Wike died Jan. 16 at Providence Hospital. Born Nov. 28, 1916, in Auburn, Pa., he served in the U.S. Army for more than 22 years before his retirement in 1963. He then moved to Alaska and worked as a heavy equipment operator for the civil service. He was a member of VFW Post 3975 in Auburn, Pa., and the NCO Club. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, sightseeing, baseball, boxing, and looking for moose in the woods. He leaves his wife, Margarete, of Anchorage; his son, Robert, of Tallahassee, Fla.; his brothers, John, of Schuylkill Haven, Pa., Jim, of Bloomington, Ill., and Jean, of Auburn, Pa.; his sisters, Mary Reppert, of Hamburg, Pa., Tots Sunday, of Port Clinton, Pa., Ruth Hain, of Reading, Pa., and Dorothy Stewart, of Auburn, Pa.; and three grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be sent to the Bob Hope International Heart Research Institute, 528 18th Ave., Seattle, 98122. Burial will be in Fort Richardson National Cemetery with full military honors.
U.S. Army
World War II
Korea
Vietnam
Anchorage Daily News January 20, 1988
Graveside services for Robert M. Wike, 71, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Fort Richardson National Cemetery with Chaplain Moore officiating. There will be a visitation from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight at Witzleben Family Funeral Homes and Crematory, Bragaw Chapel. Mr. Wike died Jan. 16 at Providence Hospital. Born Nov. 28, 1916, in Auburn, Pa., he served in the U.S. Army for more than 22 years before his retirement in 1963. He then moved to Alaska and worked as a heavy equipment operator for the civil service. He was a member of VFW Post 3975 in Auburn, Pa., and the NCO Club. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, sightseeing, baseball, boxing, and looking for moose in the woods. He leaves his wife, Margarete, of Anchorage; his son, Robert, of Tallahassee, Fla.; his brothers, John, of Schuylkill Haven, Pa., Jim, of Bloomington, Ill., and Jean, of Auburn, Pa.; his sisters, Mary Reppert, of Hamburg, Pa., Tots Sunday, of Port Clinton, Pa., Ruth Hain, of Reading, Pa., and Dorothy Stewart, of Auburn, Pa.; and three grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be sent to the Bob Hope International Heart Research Institute, 528 18th Ave., Seattle, 98122. Burial will be in Fort Richardson National Cemetery with full military honors.
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