BMSN Robert A. Beckhart
1932 - 1955
USN
KOR
Robert Allen Beckhart was born December 20, 1932 in Barrington to Carlton A. and Florence Stover Beckhart.
Beckhart was a 1951 graduate of Barrington High School where he played football, basketball, and baseball all four years. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1953, and was eventually stationed in Newport, Rhode Island, assigned to the USS Destroyer McGowan as a Boatswain’s Mate Seaman.
On September 10, 1955, he married Catherine E. Delbou in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
BMSN Robert Beckhart was killed in an automobile accident on November 28, 1955, in Fall River, Massachusetts. He is buried with his parents in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.