ABBEY DELRAY WALL OF HONOR
Robert Wellman
Branch of Service: Navy
Rank: Petty Officer
Date of Birth:08/06/1933
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, NY
Name of High School: Lafayette
City/State: Brooklyn, NY
College: Brooklyn College
Degree: B.S. in Accounting
Name of Spouse: Joan
How long married: 65 Years
Residence before Abbey Delray: River bridge, Greenacres, FL
Career: Certified Public Accountant
No. of Children: 2 | Grandchildren: 4 | Great Grandchildren: 1
Your experience in the service: His dates of service were from 1952 to 1956. He was stationed at Naval Air Base Norfolk, VA. And was on board the aircraft carrier USS Bennington in the Pacific fleet. He was a weather observer and his duties included hourly weather condition reports, plotting weather maps, and sending weather balloons with radio transmitters into the atmosphere to track weather conditions in the atmosphere. He probably was one of the few to send balloons up at the southern tip of South America.