Robert Daniel Corriveau died on Monday, November 18, 1968. He was 20 years old. Robert was born in Lawrence, MA on December 1, 1947. He was the son of the late Philip G. Corriveau and Kathleen Hannagan Corriveau.
Robert attended Central Catholic High and Mount St Charles Academy. He excelled in sports. He was a feather-weight boxer while he was in the Corp.
He enlisted in the United States Marine Corp on April 1, 1965. After boot camp and field combat training, Robert was deployed to Vietnam where he was wounded in three separate instances. He was awarded the Purple Heart Medal with two gold stars. Additional awards were the Combat Action Ribbon, PUC, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with two bronze stars, Vietnam Campaign Medal, two Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citations and a bloodstripe.
He is survived by Kathleen H Corriveau West and the late Philip G Corriveau; his sister Virginia M Cleary and her husband Michael; brothers the late Paul N Corriveau; and the late Thomas P Corriveau. Also survived by his aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.
On Monday September 17, 2012, a Chester County Judge ordered that the remains of Robert Daniel Corriveau be released to his family by the Chester County Coroner. He will be exhumed from Longwood Cemetery in Kennett Square and re-interred with full military honors in their family plot in St. Mary's Cemetery, located in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
On November 18, 1968, a Pennsylvania State Trooper, while on routine turnpike patrol spotted a man in a seated position alongside the highway about a mile east of the Downingtown interchange. The trooper stopped to check on the man and found that he was deceased. He carried no identification. An autopsy determined that the young man had been stabbed once through the heart.
He remained unidentified for 44 years. Through the tireless efforts of the Pennsylvania State Police Cold Case Unit, Chester County District Attorney, Pennsylvania Medical Examiner, NCIS, United States Marine Corp and his family, the young man was positively identified by DNA on May 31, 2012 as Cpl Robert Daniel Corriveau, USMC. Cpl Corriveau, just shy of his 21st birthday, was an active duty Marine who had been wounded on three separate occasions in Vietnam in 1967. At the time of his disappearance, Cpl Corriveau was a patient at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital.
October 13, 2012, Cpl Corriveau was buried with full military honors, dignity and respect. Thank you for your service Bobby Dan.
Semper fidelis - RIP.
Robert attended Central Catholic High and Mount St Charles Academy. He excelled in sports. He was a feather-weight boxer while he was in the Corp.
He enlisted in the United States Marine Corp on April 1, 1965. After boot camp and field combat training, Robert was deployed to Vietnam where he was wounded in three separate instances. He was awarded the Purple Heart Medal with two gold stars. Additional awards were the Combat Action Ribbon, PUC, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with two bronze stars, Vietnam Campaign Medal, two Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citations and a bloodstripe.
He is survived by Kathleen H Corriveau West and the late Philip G Corriveau; his sister Virginia M Cleary and her husband Michael; brothers the late Paul N Corriveau; and the late Thomas P Corriveau. Also survived by his aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.
On Monday September 17, 2012, a Chester County Judge ordered that the remains of Robert Daniel Corriveau be released to his family by the Chester County Coroner. He will be exhumed from Longwood Cemetery in Kennett Square and re-interred with full military honors in their family plot in St. Mary's Cemetery, located in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
On November 18, 1968, a Pennsylvania State Trooper, while on routine turnpike patrol spotted a man in a seated position alongside the highway about a mile east of the Downingtown interchange. The trooper stopped to check on the man and found that he was deceased. He carried no identification. An autopsy determined that the young man had been stabbed once through the heart.
He remained unidentified for 44 years. Through the tireless efforts of the Pennsylvania State Police Cold Case Unit, Chester County District Attorney, Pennsylvania Medical Examiner, NCIS, United States Marine Corp and his family, the young man was positively identified by DNA on May 31, 2012 as Cpl Robert Daniel Corriveau, USMC. Cpl Corriveau, just shy of his 21st birthday, was an active duty Marine who had been wounded on three separate occasions in Vietnam in 1967. At the time of his disappearance, Cpl Corriveau was a patient at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital.
October 13, 2012, Cpl Corriveau was buried with full military honors, dignity and respect. Thank you for your service Bobby Dan.
Semper fidelis - RIP.
Robert Daniel Corriveau died on Monday, November 18, 1968. He was 20 years old. Robert was born in Lawrence, MA on December 1, 1947. He was the son of the late Philip G. Corriveau and Kathleen Hannagan Corriveau.
Robert attended Central Catholic High and Mount St Charles Academy. He excelled in sports. He was a feather-weight boxer while he was in the Corp.
He enlisted in the United States Marine Corp on April 1, 1965. After boot camp and field combat training, Robert was deployed to Vietnam where he was wounded in three separate instances. He was awarded the Purple Heart Medal with two gold stars. Additional awards were the Combat Action Ribbon, PUC, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with two bronze stars, Vietnam Campaign Medal, two Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citations and a bloodstripe.
He is survived by Kathleen H Corriveau West and the late Philip G Corriveau; his sister Virginia M Cleary and her husband Michael; brothers the late Paul N Corriveau; and the late Thomas P Corriveau. Also survived by his aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.
On Monday September 17, 2012, a Chester County Judge ordered that the remains of Robert Daniel Corriveau be released to his family by the Chester County Coroner. He will be exhumed from Longwood Cemetery in Kennett Square and re-interred with full military honors in their family plot in St. Mary's Cemetery, located in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
On November 18, 1968, a Pennsylvania State Trooper, while on routine turnpike patrol spotted a man in a seated position alongside the highway about a mile east of the Downingtown interchange. The trooper stopped to check on the man and found that he was deceased. He carried no identification. An autopsy determined that the young man had been stabbed once through the heart.
He remained unidentified for 44 years. Through the tireless efforts of the Pennsylvania State Police Cold Case Unit, Chester County District Attorney, Pennsylvania Medical Examiner, NCIS, United States Marine Corp and his family, the young man was positively identified by DNA on May 31, 2012 as Cpl Robert Daniel Corriveau, USMC. Cpl Corriveau, just shy of his 21st birthday, was an active duty Marine who had been wounded on three separate occasions in Vietnam in 1967. At the time of his disappearance, Cpl Corriveau was a patient at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital.
October 13, 2012, Cpl Corriveau was buried with full military honors, dignity and respect. Thank you for your service Bobby Dan.
Semper fidelis - RIP.
Robert attended Central Catholic High and Mount St Charles Academy. He excelled in sports. He was a feather-weight boxer while he was in the Corp.
He enlisted in the United States Marine Corp on April 1, 1965. After boot camp and field combat training, Robert was deployed to Vietnam where he was wounded in three separate instances. He was awarded the Purple Heart Medal with two gold stars. Additional awards were the Combat Action Ribbon, PUC, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with two bronze stars, Vietnam Campaign Medal, two Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citations and a bloodstripe.
He is survived by Kathleen H Corriveau West and the late Philip G Corriveau; his sister Virginia M Cleary and her husband Michael; brothers the late Paul N Corriveau; and the late Thomas P Corriveau. Also survived by his aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.
On Monday September 17, 2012, a Chester County Judge ordered that the remains of Robert Daniel Corriveau be released to his family by the Chester County Coroner. He will be exhumed from Longwood Cemetery in Kennett Square and re-interred with full military honors in their family plot in St. Mary's Cemetery, located in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
On November 18, 1968, a Pennsylvania State Trooper, while on routine turnpike patrol spotted a man in a seated position alongside the highway about a mile east of the Downingtown interchange. The trooper stopped to check on the man and found that he was deceased. He carried no identification. An autopsy determined that the young man had been stabbed once through the heart.
He remained unidentified for 44 years. Through the tireless efforts of the Pennsylvania State Police Cold Case Unit, Chester County District Attorney, Pennsylvania Medical Examiner, NCIS, United States Marine Corp and his family, the young man was positively identified by DNA on May 31, 2012 as Cpl Robert Daniel Corriveau, USMC. Cpl Corriveau, just shy of his 21st birthday, was an active duty Marine who had been wounded on three separate occasions in Vietnam in 1967. At the time of his disappearance, Cpl Corriveau was a patient at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital.
October 13, 2012, Cpl Corriveau was buried with full military honors, dignity and respect. Thank you for your service Bobby Dan.
Semper fidelis - RIP.
Inscription
ROBERT DANIEL CORRIVEAU, CPL US MARINE CORPS, VIETNAM, DEC 1, 1947 - NOV 18, 1968, PURPLE HEART & 2 GS
