| Robert Claude Robey Jr. |
-- Patricia Sullivan The Washington Post
Robert Claude Robey Jr. - Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Robert Claude Robey Jr., 81, a retired lithographer for the Commerce Department,
died Sept. 7 at his Camp Springs home. He had a lung ailment.
Mr. Robey was born in Washington and graduated from Eastern High School (1943).
He enlisted in the Army and served in the field artillery in the European theater during
World War II.
After the war, he taught at the Chamberlain Vocational High School in Washington
before he went to work for the Commerce Department, in the lithographic laboratory as
an offset plate maker. He retired about 1983.
He then moved to Seminole, Fla. He enjoyed swimming, reading, boating and golf.
His marriage to Valentine Bowers ended in divorce.
His second wife, Muriel Louis Curtis, died in 2001.
Survivors include two sons from his first marriage, Gary Robey of Chesapeake Beach
and Robert Jean Claude Robey of Waldorf; a stepdaughter, Jan Louise MacMillan Botti
of Long Island, N.Y.; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Robert Claude Robey Jr. - Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Robert Claude Robey Jr., 81, a retired lithographer for the Commerce Department,
died Sept. 7 at his Camp Springs home. He had a lung ailment.
Mr. Robey was born in Washington and graduated from Eastern High School (1943).
He enlisted in the Army and served in the field artillery in the European theater during
World War II.
After the war, he taught at the Chamberlain Vocational High School in Washington
before he went to work for the Commerce Department, in the lithographic laboratory as
an offset plate maker. He retired about 1983.
He then moved to Seminole, Fla. He enjoyed swimming, reading, boating and golf.
His marriage to Valentine Bowers ended in divorce.
His second wife, Muriel Louis Curtis, died in 2001.
Survivors include two sons from his first marriage, Gary Robey of Chesapeake Beach
and Robert Jean Claude Robey of Waldorf; a stepdaughter, Jan Louise MacMillan Botti
of Long Island, N.Y.; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.