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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.

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