Submitted by: Dan Rich
Feb. 6, 1920 - Jan. 29, 2008
South Bend Tribune 2/3/2008
MISHAWAKA - Robert E. LeMon died on January 29, 2008, in
Ewa Beach, Hawaii, at age 87. Bob was born in Poseyville,
Indiana, on February 6, 1920. He moved with his family to
Michigan when he was one year old and lived his boyhood years on
a farm near Cassopolis.
In 1940 he moved to Mishawaka, Indiana,
where he worked in middle management for Uniroyal for 42 years,
retiring in 1984. Bob was proud of his World War II service in
the U.S. Air Force where he completed 35 missions over Japan as a
bombardier in a B-29 Superfortress. Among his many medals are the
Distinguished Flying Cross with one Oak Leaf Cluster and an Air
Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters. He retired from the Air Force
Ready Reserves in 1964 as a lieutenant colonel. He was a life
member of the Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons #130, a life
member of the VFW and a member of the Retired Officers
Association of America. He was an active leader in the Boy Scouts
of America for 12 years.
He will be greatly missed by a loving family, his wife of 65 years, Mary; and a daughter, Ruth Ann Limtiaco, both of Hawaii; a son, Richard E. LeMon, and his wife, Jane of Tallahassee, Florida; six grandchildren and one great-grandson; and a sister, Nellie of DeWitt, Iowa. A son, Robert Charles "Chuck" LeMon, died in 1971. Chapel Hill Funeral Home is handling arrangements.