Sergeant Robert J. Stephens
- First name: | Robert |
- Middle name: | James |
- Last name: | Stephens |
- Nickname: | Bob |
- Rank Doolittle raid: | Sergeant |
- Last rank: | Flight Officer |
- Service number: | 6936650 |
- Date of birth: | 28 February 1915 |
- Place of birth: | Hobart/Peggs, Oklahoma |
- Date of death: | 13 April 1959 |
- Place of death: | Hobart, Oklahoma |
- Place of the cemetery: | Rose, Oklahoma |
- Name of the cemetery: | Hobart Rose Cemetery |
Additional info
His father was John W. Stephens and his mother named Viola Shelton Stephens.
Robert Stephens was born in Hobart/Peggs, Oklahoma and was oprhaned on 2 May 1920. His parents died in a tornado in Peggs on 2 May 1920. Also a sister of him was killed in this tornado. By then his sister Ella was 2/3 years old when the tornado killed her.
Peggs, Oklahoma lies in the lush eastern portion of the state just ten miles east of the Neosho River and Fort Gibson Lake. It’s a small community of fewer than 1,000 people along State Highway 82 midway between Tahlequah and Locust Grove.
The tornado struck without warning at a time when most people were home, and nearly the entire residential section simply ceased to exist. It was a worst case scenario. 71 people died, nearly a third of the town’s population of 250.
The Kiowa County seat, Hobart is situated on State Highway 9 two miles west of U.S. Highway 183. Located 120 miles southwest of Oklahoma City and sixty-five miles northwest of Lawton, Hobart is served by the St. Louis and San Francisco (Frisco) Railway, which runs north-south along the town's eastern limits. The town was named in honor of Garrett A. Hobart, a vice president of the United States (1897–99).
Kiowa Theatre, Hobart, circa 1936
Robert J. Stephens died at the age of 44 on 13 Aoril 1959. Still young but death was apparently from natural causes .
He was found death on his apartement where he was living alone. Robert had not been in good health since being given a physical disability retirement form the air force on 1 Dcember 1944. He died in Hobart, Kiowa County, Oklahoma. His family said that the last days he suffered from influenza.
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