OBITUARY FOR ROBERT SCOTT RUSSELL
ROBERT SCOTT RUSSELL PASSED AT THE AGE OF 89 YEARS HE WAS THE OLDEST SON OF THE LATE ROBERT RUSSELL AND ERNESTINE (HANLEY) RUSSELL. ROBERT’S SIBLINGS PEGGY RUSSELL GEE, JAMES CHARLES RUSSELL “J.C.” AND JACK RUSSELL ALL PROCEEDED HIM IN DEATH.
MEMORIES OF HIM WILL BE CHERISHED FOREVER BY HIS DEVOTED SISTER, JANIE (RUSSELL) JAMES, BROTHER-IN-LAW, DR. DAVID P. JAMES, Ed,D., NIECES, LAUREN (JAMES) BZDEWKA, JOI MELISSA JAMES AND NEPHEWS NICHOLAS WILLIAMS AND BRAEDAN BZDEWKA WHO ALL RESIDE IN COLUMBIA MARYLAND.
ROBERT WAS BORN IN RURAL RETREAT, VIRGINIA. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 1950 FROM THE WYTHEVILLE TRAINING SCHOOL IN WYTHEVILLE, VIRGINIA. HE TRAVELED TO LANSING, MICHIGAN TO FURTHER HIS HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION. HE ATTENDED AND GRADUATED FROM J.W. SEXTON HIGH SCHOOL IN THE CLASS OF 1951. HE RETURNED TO RURAL RETREAT HOWEVER ROBERT LEFT THE AREA AT THE AGE OF TWENTY WHEN HE ENLISTED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE. HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS. DURING THIS TIME, HE WAS STATIONED AT VARIOUS AIR FORCE BASES IN THE UNITED STATES. THESE AIR FORCE BASES INCLUDED McQUIRE AFB (NEW JERSEY), NELLIS AFB (NEAR LAS VEGAS, NEVADA), McCLELLAN AFB (SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA), AND DULUTH AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE (DULUTH, MINNESOTA), HE WAS LAST STATIONED AT THE GRAND FORKS AIR FORCE BASE (GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA). HE RETIRED FROM THE MILITARY AT THE GRAND FORKS AIR FORCE BASE IN 1973. DURING HIS MILITARY SERVICE, HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY ABROAD AS WELL. HE SERVED “TOURS OF DUTY” IN ITALY, GERMANY AND TURKEY. HE WAS A MEMBER OF AN AMERICAN DETACHMENT WITH THE ROYAL AIR FORCE WHILE IN LAARBRUCH, GERMANY.
TECHNICAL SARGEANT ROBERT S RUSSELL DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF BY MERITORIOUS SERVICE AS A NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER. HE WAS AWARDED THE AIR FORCE COMMENDATION MEDAL. HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY “FAITHFULLY AND HONORABLY AND WITH DISTINCTION FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS.
ROBERT LIVED IN ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA FOR MANY YEARS AFTER HIS RETIRMENT FROM THE MILITARY. THE LAST NINE YEARS OF HIS LIFE, HE LIVED HAPPILY AND CONFORTABLY AT THE ARMED FORCES RETIREMENT HOME IN WASHINGTON, DC. SUNRISE APRIL 19, 1933 SUNSET JUNE 16, 2022
A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE/BURIAL WAS HELD AT THE MURPHYSVILLE CEMETERY, RURAL RETREAT, VIRGINIA ON JUNE 16TH 2023.
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