Robert Baldwin Myers, 78, former attorney for the Justice Department, died Saturday afternoon at his home in Vienna, Va., after a brief illness.
Born in Norfolk, he received a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1907and practiced law in Norfolk and Baltimore. As a major in World War I he served with the 29th Infantry Division throughout its campaigns in France.
He moved here in the 1930s to work for the Interior Department. Two years later he joined the lands division of the Justice Department where he worked on land acquisition for national parks.
He retired to his farm in Vienna in 1953.
Mr. Myers was a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He leaves his wife, Elizabeth, and two sisters, Katherine B., and Francis S., at the home address, and another sister, Mrs. J. Hubard Lloyd of Norfolk.
Services were to at 2 p.m. today at Gawler's Funeral Home, 1756 Pennsylvania avenue, N.W. Burial will be in Norfolk.
Published in the Evening Star (Washington, D. C.) on Monday, May 7, 1962
Born in Norfolk, he received a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1907and practiced law in Norfolk and Baltimore. As a major in World War I he served with the 29th Infantry Division throughout its campaigns in France.
He moved here in the 1930s to work for the Interior Department. Two years later he joined the lands division of the Justice Department where he worked on land acquisition for national parks.
He retired to his farm in Vienna in 1953.
Mr. Myers was a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He leaves his wife, Elizabeth, and two sisters, Katherine B., and Francis S., at the home address, and another sister, Mrs. J. Hubard Lloyd of Norfolk.
Services were to at 2 p.m. today at Gawler's Funeral Home, 1756 Pennsylvania avenue, N.W. Burial will be in Norfolk.
Published in the Evening Star (Washington, D. C.) on Monday, May 7, 1962
Robert Baldwin Myers, 78, former attorney for the Justice Department, died Saturday afternoon at his home in Vienna, Va., after a brief illness.
Born in Norfolk, he received a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1907and practiced law in Norfolk and Baltimore. As a major in World War I he served with the 29th Infantry Division throughout its campaigns in France.
He moved here in the 1930s to work for the Interior Department. Two years later he joined the lands division of the Justice Department where he worked on land acquisition for national parks.
He retired to his farm in Vienna in 1953.
Mr. Myers was a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He leaves his wife, Elizabeth, and two sisters, Katherine B., and Francis S., at the home address, and another sister, Mrs. J. Hubard Lloyd of Norfolk.
Services were to at 2 p.m. today at Gawler's Funeral Home, 1756 Pennsylvania avenue, N.W. Burial will be in Norfolk.
Published in the Evening Star (Washington, D. C.) on Monday, May 7, 1962
Born in Norfolk, he received a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1907and practiced law in Norfolk and Baltimore. As a major in World War I he served with the 29th Infantry Division throughout its campaigns in France.
He moved here in the 1930s to work for the Interior Department. Two years later he joined the lands division of the Justice Department where he worked on land acquisition for national parks.
He retired to his farm in Vienna in 1953.
Mr. Myers was a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He leaves his wife, Elizabeth, and two sisters, Katherine B., and Francis S., at the home address, and another sister, Mrs. J. Hubard Lloyd of Norfolk.
Services were to at 2 p.m. today at Gawler's Funeral Home, 1756 Pennsylvania avenue, N.W. Burial will be in Norfolk.
Published in the Evening Star (Washington, D. C.) on Monday, May 7, 1962
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