OBITUARY:  Robert David Long, The Dalles, Wasco Co., Oregon

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Surnames: Long, Berry

The Dalles Chronicle   November 22, 2002. 

    Robert David Long, 81, a native of The Dalles, died on November 17, 2002.
     He was born April 8, 1921, in The Dalles, descendant of an Oregon pioneer 
family. His great-grandmother was a co-founder of St. Paul's Episcopal Church 
in The Dalles.**
    He graduated from The Dalles High School in 1939 and attended Northwestern
State Teachers College in Ada, Oklahoma, Vanport College (Washington?) and
Portland State College.
    He worked for the Wasco County Road Department, U.S. Corps of Engineers and
Oregon State Highway Department before enlisting as a cadet in the U.S. Army Air 
Corps, where he served for three years attaining the rank of 1st Lieutenant 
Navigator. He flew 33 combat missions as a crew member of a B-17 bomber out of
Foggia, Italy.
    He was awarded a medal for Air Combat, Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters,
European African Middle Eastern Service Medal with five Bronze Stars and the 
Distinguished Flying Cross.
    After the service he resumed his career as a highway engineer with the Oregon
State Highway Department where he worked for 40 years before retiring in 1981.
    He married Charlotte Berry in 1968, she preceded him in death in 1993.
    He was a member of the St. David Episcopal Church and served in several 
capacities. He was a member of the Old Wasco County Pioneer Association and
the Gateway Elks Lodge.
    He enjoyed photography, gardening and traveling.
    Survivors include six children, 13 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren.
    Funeral services were held Friday morning at Gateway Little Chapel of the 
Chimes. Interment with military honors was at Willamette National Cemetery.
    Memorials may be made to the Doernbecher Children's Hospital.
  
Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon
 
** Possibly Mrs. George H. Knaggs? History of The Centennial Churches of 
The Dalles, Oregon by Wm. H. Mcneal, p. 58: History of St. Paul's Episcopal
Church of The Dalles:  "In 1874 Bishop Morris gave $500 toward construction 
of a church provided a like sum should be raised in The Dalles. This work was 
undertaken by Mrs. George H. Knaggs and successfully accomplished by her, 
the sum of $655 having been raised."