Charles Clark Robinson, Lt. Colonel, USAF (Ret.)
Lt. Col. Charles Clark Robinson, age 92, US Air force (Ret.), of Leesburg, VA, died at home after a long battle with MDS.
He graduated, 1938, from Fordham University, and began work in the Philippines as a chemist and evacuated back to the US on one of the last ships out of Manila just hours prior to the bombing by the Japanese.
Lt. Col. Robinson enlisted in the Army in 1942 and served in the US Army Signal Corps in New Guinea and the Philippines. He transferred to the US Air Force upon its establishment in 1947, where he served as an intelligence Staff Officer during the Korean War, at NORAD in Colorado, and various air bases in Europe and Africa.
The highlight of his career was his tour in Vietnam when he was Chief of the Intelligence Branch at the MACV-SOG for which he received the Bronze Star. His final military assignment, before his retirement in 1969, was as the Defense Intelligence Agency's Chief of the Africa Branch at the Pentagon.
He will be buried with full honors at Arlington National Cemetery on on April 29, 2011, after a Memorial Mass at Fort Myers Chapel in Virginia.
Predeceased in death by
Parents: Charles Clifford Robinson and
Frances Fitzgerald Robinson
Beloved Wife:
Ann Margaret Grimmelmann Robinson
Brother: Gerald Robinson
Sister: Virginia Rickenbach
Grandson: Brian Dodd
Surviving:
Daughters: Ann Frances Dodd (Calvin)
Jean Virginia Corliss (Donald)
Patricia "Scottie" Robinson
Elizabeth Ann Robinson
Grandchildren:
Robert and Ann Margaret Dodd
Todd and Devin Corliss
6 G-Grandchildren
Lt. Col. Charles Clark Robinson, age 92, US Air force (Ret.), of Leesburg, VA, died at home after a long battle with MDS.
He graduated, 1938, from Fordham University, and began work in the Philippines as a chemist and evacuated back to the US on one of the last ships out of Manila just hours prior to the bombing by the Japanese.
Lt. Col. Robinson enlisted in the Army in 1942 and served in the US Army Signal Corps in New Guinea and the Philippines. He transferred to the US Air Force upon its establishment in 1947, where he served as an intelligence Staff Officer during the Korean War, at NORAD in Colorado, and various air bases in Europe and Africa.
The highlight of his career was his tour in Vietnam when he was Chief of the Intelligence Branch at the MACV-SOG for which he received the Bronze Star. His final military assignment, before his retirement in 1969, was as the Defense Intelligence Agency's Chief of the Africa Branch at the Pentagon.
He will be buried with full honors at Arlington National Cemetery on on April 29, 2011, after a Memorial Mass at Fort Myers Chapel in Virginia.
Predeceased in death by
Parents: Charles Clifford Robinson and
Frances Fitzgerald Robinson
Beloved Wife:
Ann Margaret Grimmelmann Robinson
Brother: Gerald Robinson
Sister: Virginia Rickenbach
Grandson: Brian Dodd
Surviving:
Daughters: Ann Frances Dodd (Calvin)
Jean Virginia Corliss (Donald)
Patricia "Scottie" Robinson
Elizabeth Ann Robinson
Grandchildren:
Robert and Ann Margaret Dodd
Todd and Devin Corliss
6 G-Grandchildren
Charles Clark Robinson, Lt. Colonel, USAF (Ret.)
Lt. Col. Charles Clark Robinson, age 92, US Air force (Ret.), of Leesburg, VA, died at home after a long battle with MDS.
He graduated, 1938, from Fordham University, and began work in the Philippines as a chemist and evacuated back to the US on one of the last ships out of Manila just hours prior to the bombing by the Japanese.
Lt. Col. Robinson enlisted in the Army in 1942 and served in the US Army Signal Corps in New Guinea and the Philippines. He transferred to the US Air Force upon its establishment in 1947, where he served as an intelligence Staff Officer during the Korean War, at NORAD in Colorado, and various air bases in Europe and Africa.
The highlight of his career was his tour in Vietnam when he was Chief of the Intelligence Branch at the MACV-SOG for which he received the Bronze Star. His final military assignment, before his retirement in 1969, was as the Defense Intelligence Agency's Chief of the Africa Branch at the Pentagon.
He will be buried with full honors at Arlington National Cemetery on on April 29, 2011, after a Memorial Mass at Fort Myers Chapel in Virginia.
Predeceased in death by
Parents: Charles Clifford Robinson and
Frances Fitzgerald Robinson
Beloved Wife:
Ann Margaret Grimmelmann Robinson
Brother: Gerald Robinson
Sister: Virginia Rickenbach
Grandson: Brian Dodd
Surviving:
Daughters: Ann Frances Dodd (Calvin)
Jean Virginia Corliss (Donald)
Patricia "Scottie" Robinson
Elizabeth Ann Robinson
Grandchildren:
Robert and Ann Margaret Dodd
Todd and Devin Corliss
6 G-Grandchildren
Lt. Col. Charles Clark Robinson, age 92, US Air force (Ret.), of Leesburg, VA, died at home after a long battle with MDS.
He graduated, 1938, from Fordham University, and began work in the Philippines as a chemist and evacuated back to the US on one of the last ships out of Manila just hours prior to the bombing by the Japanese.
Lt. Col. Robinson enlisted in the Army in 1942 and served in the US Army Signal Corps in New Guinea and the Philippines. He transferred to the US Air Force upon its establishment in 1947, where he served as an intelligence Staff Officer during the Korean War, at NORAD in Colorado, and various air bases in Europe and Africa.
The highlight of his career was his tour in Vietnam when he was Chief of the Intelligence Branch at the MACV-SOG for which he received the Bronze Star. His final military assignment, before his retirement in 1969, was as the Defense Intelligence Agency's Chief of the Africa Branch at the Pentagon.
He will be buried with full honors at Arlington National Cemetery on on April 29, 2011, after a Memorial Mass at Fort Myers Chapel in Virginia.
Predeceased in death by
Parents: Charles Clifford Robinson and
Frances Fitzgerald Robinson
Beloved Wife:
Ann Margaret Grimmelmann Robinson
Brother: Gerald Robinson
Sister: Virginia Rickenbach
Grandson: Brian Dodd
Surviving:
Daughters: Ann Frances Dodd (Calvin)
Jean Virginia Corliss (Donald)
Patricia "Scottie" Robinson
Elizabeth Ann Robinson
Grandchildren:
Robert and Ann Margaret Dodd
Todd and Devin Corliss
6 G-Grandchildren
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