From Porter Loring Mortuary:
Robert Giles passed away peacefully on April 21, 2009 to be with his Lord and Savior. Son of John H. and Cora Brown Giles he was born July 15, 1922, reared and educated in San Antonio at old George W. Brackenridge High School. He later attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln on military orders and was granted the bachelor's degree with honors by Trinity University while in military service. During a long life he served widely in the components of the United States Army; its Reserve; the Texas and District of Columbia National Guard forces, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel while detailed in the Army Staff, Washington.
His World War II duty involved decorated service in the Ninth Army Civil Affairs Staff of San Antonio's General William Simpson and later in the Frankfurt and Berlin Civil Affairs Staffs of General Lucius DuB. Clay, U.S. Military Governor of Occupied Germany. He retired in 1982 after over 31 years combined military service but was recalled in 1991 during the First Gulf War.
With the United States Air Force as a Civil Servant, he served in various A.F. General Officer Staffs in the field of military history. In civilian life he was a trained and educated Texas municipal government worker in city and regional planning and in City management fields and associated with various Texas City governments including Midland.
Mr. Giles worked in private business in Houston where he was an active figure in a major Houston civic organization serving as a director. He taught in several colleges in Houston and Washington D.C. and served in many of the secondary schools of most San Antonio school districts. He was a long-term member of Texas City Management Association, of the Reserve Officers Association of the United States, the National Guard Association of the United States; a Master Mason in various San Antonio Masonic Lodges; Deacon of the Baptist Temple Church; President of the Highland Park Neighborhood Association; San Antonio Conservation Society; Society of the Preservation of Historic Fort Sam Houston; Boy Scout Adult Leader, Troop 22; former Bexar County Democratic Party Executive Committeman.
Mr. Giles graduated from The American University's Master's degree program in government and the University of Chicago with a doctorate, also in government and in other social sciences and took the Master's program in city/regional planning of the University of Texas Austin.
He is survived by niece, Claire Diane Blackwood of San Antonio and Ottawa, Canada; great niece and nephew, Marjorie Schelling and Harry Blackwood of Canada; two great grand nephews, also of Canada and the many friends and neighbors of a long life. He was preceded in death by his beloved brother, Judge John P. Giles and by Marjorie Groce and Mary Langley Giles, and Sisters-in-law.
Pastor Gary Bradley officiating. Memorial contributions may be made to the Boy Scouts of America, 2226 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX 78213 or a charity of choice.
Robert Giles passed away peacefully on April 21, 2009 to be with his Lord and Savior. Son of John H. and Cora Brown Giles he was born July 15, 1922, reared and educated in San Antonio at old George W. Brackenridge High School. He later attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln on military orders and was granted the bachelor's degree with honors by Trinity University while in military service. During a long life he served widely in the components of the United States Army; its Reserve; the Texas and District of Columbia National Guard forces, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel while detailed in the Army Staff, Washington.
His World War II duty involved decorated service in the Ninth Army Civil Affairs Staff of San Antonio's General William Simpson and later in the Frankfurt and Berlin Civil Affairs Staffs of General Lucius DuB. Clay, U.S. Military Governor of Occupied Germany. He retired in 1982 after over 31 years combined military service but was recalled in 1991 during the First Gulf War.
With the United States Air Force as a Civil Servant, he served in various A.F. General Officer Staffs in the field of military history. In civilian life he was a trained and educated Texas municipal government worker in city and regional planning and in City management fields and associated with various Texas City governments including Midland.
Mr. Giles worked in private business in Houston where he was an active figure in a major Houston civic organization serving as a director. He taught in several colleges in Houston and Washington D.C. and served in many of the secondary schools of most San Antonio school districts. He was a long-term member of Texas City Management Association, of the Reserve Officers Association of the United States, the National Guard Association of the United States; a Master Mason in various San Antonio Masonic Lodges; Deacon of the Baptist Temple Church; President of the Highland Park Neighborhood Association; San Antonio Conservation Society; Society of the Preservation of Historic Fort Sam Houston; Boy Scout Adult Leader, Troop 22; former Bexar County Democratic Party Executive Committeman.
Mr. Giles graduated from The American University's Master's degree program in government and the University of Chicago with a doctorate, also in government and in other social sciences and took the Master's program in city/regional planning of the University of Texas Austin.
He is survived by niece, Claire Diane Blackwood of San Antonio and Ottawa, Canada; great niece and nephew, Marjorie Schelling and Harry Blackwood of Canada; two great grand nephews, also of Canada and the many friends and neighbors of a long life. He was preceded in death by his beloved brother, Judge John P. Giles and by Marjorie Groce and Mary Langley Giles, and Sisters-in-law.
Pastor Gary Bradley officiating. Memorial contributions may be made to the Boy Scouts of America, 2226 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX 78213 or a charity of choice.
From Porter Loring Mortuary:
Robert Giles passed away peacefully on April 21, 2009 to be with his Lord and Savior. Son of John H. and Cora Brown Giles he was born July 15, 1922, reared and educated in San Antonio at old George W. Brackenridge High School. He later attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln on military orders and was granted the bachelor's degree with honors by Trinity University while in military service. During a long life he served widely in the components of the United States Army; its Reserve; the Texas and District of Columbia National Guard forces, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel while detailed in the Army Staff, Washington.
His World War II duty involved decorated service in the Ninth Army Civil Affairs Staff of San Antonio's General William Simpson and later in the Frankfurt and Berlin Civil Affairs Staffs of General Lucius DuB. Clay, U.S. Military Governor of Occupied Germany. He retired in 1982 after over 31 years combined military service but was recalled in 1991 during the First Gulf War.
With the United States Air Force as a Civil Servant, he served in various A.F. General Officer Staffs in the field of military history. In civilian life he was a trained and educated Texas municipal government worker in city and regional planning and in City management fields and associated with various Texas City governments including Midland.
Mr. Giles worked in private business in Houston where he was an active figure in a major Houston civic organization serving as a director. He taught in several colleges in Houston and Washington D.C. and served in many of the secondary schools of most San Antonio school districts. He was a long-term member of Texas City Management Association, of the Reserve Officers Association of the United States, the National Guard Association of the United States; a Master Mason in various San Antonio Masonic Lodges; Deacon of the Baptist Temple Church; President of the Highland Park Neighborhood Association; San Antonio Conservation Society; Society of the Preservation of Historic Fort Sam Houston; Boy Scout Adult Leader, Troop 22; former Bexar County Democratic Party Executive Committeman.
Mr. Giles graduated from The American University's Master's degree program in government and the University of Chicago with a doctorate, also in government and in other social sciences and took the Master's program in city/regional planning of the University of Texas Austin.
He is survived by niece, Claire Diane Blackwood of San Antonio and Ottawa, Canada; great niece and nephew, Marjorie Schelling and Harry Blackwood of Canada; two great grand nephews, also of Canada and the many friends and neighbors of a long life. He was preceded in death by his beloved brother, Judge John P. Giles and by Marjorie Groce and Mary Langley Giles, and Sisters-in-law.
Pastor Gary Bradley officiating. Memorial contributions may be made to the Boy Scouts of America, 2226 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX 78213 or a charity of choice.
Robert Giles passed away peacefully on April 21, 2009 to be with his Lord and Savior. Son of John H. and Cora Brown Giles he was born July 15, 1922, reared and educated in San Antonio at old George W. Brackenridge High School. He later attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln on military orders and was granted the bachelor's degree with honors by Trinity University while in military service. During a long life he served widely in the components of the United States Army; its Reserve; the Texas and District of Columbia National Guard forces, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel while detailed in the Army Staff, Washington.
His World War II duty involved decorated service in the Ninth Army Civil Affairs Staff of San Antonio's General William Simpson and later in the Frankfurt and Berlin Civil Affairs Staffs of General Lucius DuB. Clay, U.S. Military Governor of Occupied Germany. He retired in 1982 after over 31 years combined military service but was recalled in 1991 during the First Gulf War.
With the United States Air Force as a Civil Servant, he served in various A.F. General Officer Staffs in the field of military history. In civilian life he was a trained and educated Texas municipal government worker in city and regional planning and in City management fields and associated with various Texas City governments including Midland.
Mr. Giles worked in private business in Houston where he was an active figure in a major Houston civic organization serving as a director. He taught in several colleges in Houston and Washington D.C. and served in many of the secondary schools of most San Antonio school districts. He was a long-term member of Texas City Management Association, of the Reserve Officers Association of the United States, the National Guard Association of the United States; a Master Mason in various San Antonio Masonic Lodges; Deacon of the Baptist Temple Church; President of the Highland Park Neighborhood Association; San Antonio Conservation Society; Society of the Preservation of Historic Fort Sam Houston; Boy Scout Adult Leader, Troop 22; former Bexar County Democratic Party Executive Committeman.
Mr. Giles graduated from The American University's Master's degree program in government and the University of Chicago with a doctorate, also in government and in other social sciences and took the Master's program in city/regional planning of the University of Texas Austin.
He is survived by niece, Claire Diane Blackwood of San Antonio and Ottawa, Canada; great niece and nephew, Marjorie Schelling and Harry Blackwood of Canada; two great grand nephews, also of Canada and the many friends and neighbors of a long life. He was preceded in death by his beloved brother, Judge John P. Giles and by Marjorie Groce and Mary Langley Giles, and Sisters-in-law.
Pastor Gary Bradley officiating. Memorial contributions may be made to the Boy Scouts of America, 2226 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX 78213 or a charity of choice.
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