Robert Allen Stabler 
M, (26 April 1910 - 1 November 1945)
- Relationships
- 9th great-grandson of Herman Op Den Graeff
6th great-grandson of Hans Stäbler
6th great-grandson of Hans Peter Walz
Robert Allen Stabler was born on 26 April 1910. He was the son of George William Stabler and Etta Mae Billman. Robert Allen Stabler married, at age 34, Dorothy May Durrant, daughter of Reginald Woodford Durrant and Gertrude Jane Graystone, on Thursday, 7 December 1944 at Felixstowe, Suffolkshire, England. Robert Allen Stabler died on 1 November 1945 at Germany at age 35 years, 6 months and 6 days.
He was Engineering Battalion. He From Newspaper Clipping - Zella E. Stabler
Robert A. Stabler, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Stabler, 1200 Walnut
Street, was commissioned as a second lieutenant at Fort Belvoir, VA.
He received a five-day furlough and returned home with his parents who
attended the graduation exercises in which about 600 received commissions.
Lieutenant Stabler has been assigned to the 392nd Engineers General
Service Regiment, Camp Robinson, AR, and will report there for duty when his
furlough ends.
From Newspaper Clipping - 'Two County Men On Casualty List' - Zella E. Stabler
Two Lycoming County young men were listed by the War Department last week
as casualties of the Second World War. One was killed in a plane crash in
Germany and the other is presumed dead after having been reported missing.
First Lt. Robert A. Stabler, 35, son of George W. Stabler, of 1200 Walnut
Street, died in an army airplane crash in Germany. Attached to an engineering
battalion, he had been transferred from England to Germany in June, 1945. He
went overseas in June of 1943, and was stationed for two years in England. He
enlisted March 11, 1942.
Lt. Stabler is a graduate of the Williamsport High School and of Lehigh
University, class of 1931. He received the degree of Master of Science in
Engineering from Lehigh several years later. Surviving are his wife, the
former Dorothy Durrant, of Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, to whom he was wed
December 7, 1944; a son, John Robert, a few weeks old; his father, and a
brother, Donald B., of Harrisburg. He During WWII he was in England as a 1st Lt. on an air field in maintenance. Prior to the War he was working for his brother Don.
He was Engineering Battalion. He From Newspaper Clipping - Zella E. Stabler
Robert A. Stabler, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Stabler, 1200 Walnut
Street, was commissioned as a second lieutenant at Fort Belvoir, VA.
He received a five-day furlough and returned home with his parents who
attended the graduation exercises in which about 600 received commissions.
Lieutenant Stabler has been assigned to the 392nd Engineers General
Service Regiment, Camp Robinson, AR, and will report there for duty when his
furlough ends.
From Newspaper Clipping - 'Two County Men On Casualty List' - Zella E. Stabler
Two Lycoming County young men were listed by the War Department last week
as casualties of the Second World War. One was killed in a plane crash in
Germany and the other is presumed dead after having been reported missing.
First Lt. Robert A. Stabler, 35, son of George W. Stabler, of 1200 Walnut
Street, died in an army airplane crash in Germany. Attached to an engineering
battalion, he had been transferred from England to Germany in June, 1945. He
went overseas in June of 1943, and was stationed for two years in England. He
enlisted March 11, 1942.
Lt. Stabler is a graduate of the Williamsport High School and of Lehigh
University, class of 1931. He received the degree of Master of Science in
Engineering from Lehigh several years later. Surviving are his wife, the
former Dorothy Durrant, of Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, to whom he was wed
December 7, 1944; a son, John Robert, a few weeks old; his father, and a
brother, Donald B., of Harrisburg. He During WWII he was in England as a 1st Lt. on an air field in maintenance. Prior to the War he was working for his brother Don.
Child of Robert Allen Stabler and Dorothy May Durrant
Last Edited=26 May 2004