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CHIEF PETTY OFFICER H.
ROBERT LIND was born in Philadelphia PA in 1908 to Emil and Ida Lind,
who had both emigrated from Sweden around the turn of the century. The
Linds had met and married in the USA, and had settled in Philadelphia
PA, where, in 1930 they lived at 2414 South 15th Street. Robert Lind was
the third of 5 children, coming after Alma and William, and before Marie
and Agnes. In April 1930 the census reported Emil Lind as working as a
molder in an iron works. Robert Lind, then 21 was a coat salesman,
brother William worked with his father at the iron works, and oldest
sister Alma was a bookkeeper at a bank. The Lind family later moved to
Camden NJ. Robert Lind met his wife to be, Margaret, at some point after
April of 1930. They wed, and made their home at 2117 River Road in
Camden. At some point he had joined the United States Navy, and had
attained the rank of Chief Petty Officer. Chief
Petty Officer H. Robert Lynn died at the United States Naval Hospital at
Bethesda MD on January 7, 1944. He was buried with full military honors
on January 10, 1944. He was survived by his father, wife Margaret,
brother William, then serving in the Navy himself, and his three
sisters, all of whom had wed. |
