Robert
Robert Orville Chambers
d. July 29, 2016
Robert Orville Chambers of Goffstown, New Hampshire, died July 29, 2016, at the age of 95, of dementia, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
Born on a farm in Pierson Station, Illinois, in 1921, the fourth child of Jesse Orville Chambers and Jean Helmbold Chambers, he attended a one-room school. After graduating from high school in a nearby town, he served as a radio technician in the U.S. Navy in World War II. After the war, he married Raffaela Mingolelli of East Boston, Massachusetts, and they moved to Elmwood, Illinois.
He took courses at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, and worked for many years for Caterpillar Tractor Company of Peoria, Illinois, where he eventually specialized in transmission engineering. He retired from Caterpillar as a staff engineer in 1989. He was a co-author of engineering patents. After retirement, he resided in Peoria and Belmont, Massachusetts, until 2010, when he moved to Manchester, New Hampshire, and then to Goffstown, New Hampshire. He donated his personal engineering papers to the Historical Construction Equipment Archive in Bowling Green, Ohio.
He enjoyed socializing with his family, contributing to individuals in need and to charitable causes, reading about politics and economics, bicycling, playing Scrabble and checkers, and solving crossword puzzles.
Robert was predeceased by his siblings, Jessie, Nancy, and Stanley; his former wife, Raffaela; his friend, Doris Barbuto and his son Philip. He is survived by his daughter, Jean Chambers of Oswego, New York, his son, James of Old Saybrook, Connecticut and West Medford, Massachusetts, his daughter Kathleen Chambers of Derry, New Hampshire and several nieces and nephews.
Memorial services will be private to the family.
The family requests that flowers be omitted. Please disregard the flowers link on this page.
Born on a farm in Pierson Station, Illinois, in 1921, the fourth child of Jesse Orville Chambers and Jean Helmbold Chambers, he attended a one-room school. After graduating from high school in a nearby town, he served as a radio technician in the U.S. Navy in World War II. After the war, he married Raffaela Mingolelli of East Boston, Massachusetts, and they moved to Elmwood, Illinois.
He took courses at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, and worked for many years for Caterpillar Tractor Company of Peoria, Illinois, where he eventually specialized in transmission engineering. He retired from Caterpillar as a staff engineer in 1989. He was a co-author of engineering patents. After retirement, he resided in Peoria and Belmont, Massachusetts, until 2010, when he moved to Manchester, New Hampshire, and then to Goffstown, New Hampshire. He donated his personal engineering papers to the Historical Construction Equipment Archive in Bowling Green, Ohio.
He enjoyed socializing with his family, contributing to individuals in need and to charitable causes, reading about politics and economics, bicycling, playing Scrabble and checkers, and solving crossword puzzles.
Robert was predeceased by his siblings, Jessie, Nancy, and Stanley; his former wife, Raffaela; his friend, Doris Barbuto and his son Philip. He is survived by his daughter, Jean Chambers of Oswego, New York, his son, James of Old Saybrook, Connecticut and West Medford, Massachusetts, his daughter Kathleen Chambers of Derry, New Hampshire and several nieces and nephews.
Memorial services will be private to the family.
The family requests that flowers be omitted. Please disregard the flowers link on this page.
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