2LT Robert C. Flood
1908 – 1965
USAR
WWII
Robert Clinnin Flood was born in Chicago on April 13, 1908 to Thomas and Agatha Clinnin Flood.
He was an outstanding athlete at DeLaSalle High School, graduating in 1926, and was a member of the Georgetown University football team while a student there.
Flood married Jane Delprat about 1934, they had one child before divorcing in 1941. On December 2, 1942, he married a widow, Alice Smith Tilly; they raised two children.
He enlisted in the U.S. Army on October 19, 1943. During WWII he served as a basic training instructor in Company B, 113rd Infantry of the 1850 Service Command, which was tasked with defending the Eastern Coast of the United States. Flood was honorably discharged as a Second Lieutenant on January 10, 1945.
He joined Marquette Cement Company in 1945, and moved his family to Barrington, where they lived until Flood was transferred to Milwaukee in 1956 as a Sales Manager. In Milwaukee, he was a member of the Milwaukee Athletic Club and the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce.
2LT Robert Flood died November 4, 1965 in Milwaukee, and is buried in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.