Robert was 10 months old when his father was killed: "I never remember having a daddy." He had to quit school after the 9th grade because he became the only child left to help his mother run the home place farm."I quit school in the 10th grade. I came home, and my mother was plowing with the mule. I told her that I would quit and help her make the crop. She talked me into going back to school; I went one more day. We made a crop that year. We grew and sold strawberrys to the market on Assembly Street in Columbia one year. She had a V8 Ford...maybe a 1932, and we made two trips a week to market. Other times we grew green beans and a type of red hulled bean that sold fast." Siblings nicknamed Robert "Horse Fly", but the nickname did not "stick" within the family in adult years.
Military: In WWII in Germany (Army Medical Corps), he was a surgical technician medic.
Work: In the 1950s, Robert was building construction superintendent (and the building engineer for 20 years thereafter) of the Cornell Arms apartment building in downtown Columbia, S. C. near the USC campus. When it opened, it was the tallest dwelling building on the east coast between New York and Miami. He was the first engineer for the building of Lexington Medical Center (opened in Jan. 1971) and was head of engineering there for 18 years. The world-wide oil crisis in the early 1970s lead to a crisis with the oil-fired operation at the hospital. Robert devised a new electrical plan and obtained a $280,000 grant (which the hospital had to match) to implement it. The first year in operation saved $100,000 in power expenses!
Robert & Azilee had a girl and two boys: Roberta Florence Lindler Ferrell, Mendel Lee Lindler, and Rev. Roger Eugene Lindler.
He died a few years after the onset of Alzheimer's dementia.
His Lindler immigrant ancestor was Jacob Lindler, his GGGGgrandfather, who landed in Charleston, S. C. in 1754.
Military: In WWII in Germany (Army Medical Corps), he was a surgical technician medic.
Work: In the 1950s, Robert was building construction superintendent (and the building engineer for 20 years thereafter) of the Cornell Arms apartment building in downtown Columbia, S. C. near the USC campus. When it opened, it was the tallest dwelling building on the east coast between New York and Miami. He was the first engineer for the building of Lexington Medical Center (opened in Jan. 1971) and was head of engineering there for 18 years. The world-wide oil crisis in the early 1970s lead to a crisis with the oil-fired operation at the hospital. Robert devised a new electrical plan and obtained a $280,000 grant (which the hospital had to match) to implement it. The first year in operation saved $100,000 in power expenses!
Robert & Azilee had a girl and two boys: Roberta Florence Lindler Ferrell, Mendel Lee Lindler, and Rev. Roger Eugene Lindler.
He died a few years after the onset of Alzheimer's dementia.
His Lindler immigrant ancestor was Jacob Lindler, his GGGGgrandfather, who landed in Charleston, S. C. in 1754.
Robert was 10 months old when his father was killed: "I never remember having a daddy." He had to quit school after the 9th grade because he became the only child left to help his mother run the home place farm."I quit school in the 10th grade. I came home, and my mother was plowing with the mule. I told her that I would quit and help her make the crop. She talked me into going back to school; I went one more day. We made a crop that year. We grew and sold strawberrys to the market on Assembly Street in Columbia one year. She had a V8 Ford...maybe a 1932, and we made two trips a week to market. Other times we grew green beans and a type of red hulled bean that sold fast." Siblings nicknamed Robert "Horse Fly", but the nickname did not "stick" within the family in adult years.
Military: In WWII in Germany (Army Medical Corps), he was a surgical technician medic.
Work: In the 1950s, Robert was building construction superintendent (and the building engineer for 20 years thereafter) of the Cornell Arms apartment building in downtown Columbia, S. C. near the USC campus. When it opened, it was the tallest dwelling building on the east coast between New York and Miami. He was the first engineer for the building of Lexington Medical Center (opened in Jan. 1971) and was head of engineering there for 18 years. The world-wide oil crisis in the early 1970s lead to a crisis with the oil-fired operation at the hospital. Robert devised a new electrical plan and obtained a $280,000 grant (which the hospital had to match) to implement it. The first year in operation saved $100,000 in power expenses!
Robert & Azilee had a girl and two boys: Roberta Florence Lindler Ferrell, Mendel Lee Lindler, and Rev. Roger Eugene Lindler.
He died a few years after the onset of Alzheimer's dementia.
His Lindler immigrant ancestor was Jacob Lindler, his GGGGgrandfather, who landed in Charleston, S. C. in 1754.
Military: In WWII in Germany (Army Medical Corps), he was a surgical technician medic.
Work: In the 1950s, Robert was building construction superintendent (and the building engineer for 20 years thereafter) of the Cornell Arms apartment building in downtown Columbia, S. C. near the USC campus. When it opened, it was the tallest dwelling building on the east coast between New York and Miami. He was the first engineer for the building of Lexington Medical Center (opened in Jan. 1971) and was head of engineering there for 18 years. The world-wide oil crisis in the early 1970s lead to a crisis with the oil-fired operation at the hospital. Robert devised a new electrical plan and obtained a $280,000 grant (which the hospital had to match) to implement it. The first year in operation saved $100,000 in power expenses!
Robert & Azilee had a girl and two boys: Roberta Florence Lindler Ferrell, Mendel Lee Lindler, and Rev. Roger Eugene Lindler.
He died a few years after the onset of Alzheimer's dementia.
His Lindler immigrant ancestor was Jacob Lindler, his GGGGgrandfather, who landed in Charleston, S. C. in 1754.
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