Robert Fillmore Osborne was the second child born to Millard and Ella "Stubbs" Osborne. His father was a farmer, he was raised on farms and worked in the fields along with his parents.
Robert Osborne attended schools in Winamac, Indiana and Morris, Illinois. He worked at the Morris Farms near Niles, Michigan in 1938 & 1939 when his father was manager of the Morris Farms. He later was employed at the Clark Equipment Company in Buchanan before entering the Navy in 1942.
After the war, he was transferred to the Little Creek Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1950 at a party at Little Creek Naval Base he met a very pretty woman, Evelyn Spivey. They were married April 7,1951 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
Robert and Evelyn had three children, Olivia, Michael, & Sharon; Michael and Sharon were twins. Robert loved his wife and children very much.
He loved fishing and carving chalk figurines. He also loved wood working and once building a baby doll crib, cradle, rocking chairs, stove, sink for his two daughters. He enjoyed gardening and playing cribbage and card games.
Robert Fillmore Osborne was killed in an mid-air collison between a U.S. military plane and an Brazilan domestic plane on February 25, 1960 in Rio de Janeiro while serving on the US Navy Advisory Group that was sent to Rio de Janeiro during the Cuban Crisis (he was assigned to the USS Sierra AD-18 at the time). A memorial stained glass window was erected in the Christ Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and dedicated on September 24, 1961. The Chief of the US Naval Mission in Brazil unveiled the memorial which read "TO THE GLORY AND MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THE US NAVY WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE AIR DISASTER FEBRUARY 25th 1960."
Robert Fillmore Osborne was the second child born to Millard and Ella "Stubbs" Osborne. His father was a farmer, he was raised on farms and worked in the fields along with his parents.
Robert Osborne attended schools in Winamac, Indiana and Morris, Illinois. He worked at the Morris Farms near Niles, Michigan in 1938 & 1939 when his father was manager of the Morris Farms. He later was employed at the Clark Equipment Company in Buchanan before entering the Navy in 1942.
After the war, he was transferred to the Little Creek Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1950 at a party at Little Creek Naval Base he met a very pretty woman, Evelyn Spivey. They were married April 7,1951 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
Robert and Evelyn had three children, Olivia, Michael, & Sharon; Michael and Sharon were twins. Robert loved his wife and children very much.
He loved fishing and carving chalk figurines. He also loved wood working and once building a baby doll crib, cradle, rocking chairs, stove, sink for his two daughters. He enjoyed gardening and playing cribbage and card games.
Robert Fillmore Osborne was killed in an mid-air collison between a U.S. military plane and an Brazilan domestic plane on February 25, 1960 in Rio de Janeiro while serving on the US Navy Advisory Group that was sent to Rio de Janeiro during the Cuban Crisis (he was assigned to the USS Sierra AD-18 at the time). A memorial stained glass window was erected in the Christ Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and dedicated on September 24, 1961. The Chief of the US Naval Mission in Brazil unveiled the memorial which read "TO THE GLORY AND MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THE US NAVY WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE AIR DISASTER FEBRUARY 25th 1960."
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