![]() ![]() Only devoted Hawkeye fans can really appreciate that. Something that bears almost as much pride within the family is the fact that Bob and Hap had 4 tickets to the University of Iowa Hawkeye football games since 1950. ![]() Many, if not most, of the Des Moines skyline includes the work of Allied Construction Services, Inc., which now has offices in Des Moines, Bettendorf, Peoria, Omaha, and Kansas City. Color, Incorporated joined the ranks, along with Beckley Electric and Foreman Ford, though the latter two were eventually sold or closed. As it grew, Bob eventually bought out Gordon and acquired other companies that would complement the services Allied could offer as a subcontracting company. in Des Moines, Iowa with his good friend and brother-in-law, Gordon Campbell of Minneapolis. In 1950, he started Allied Construction Services, Inc. On a side note, while on Tinian, he trained 100 yards from Paul Tibbets and the crew of the Enola Gay who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.Īs with many of the World War II generation, Bob returned a driven man, anxious to prove himself and to provide for his family. While in Tinian, he flew 30 combat missions over Japan, receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross with one Oak Leaf Cluster as well as five air medals. He went there in February of 1945 and remained until October of that year, returning in the first group of B-29s to come back to the states after the war. His second and final assignment of the war was as a First Lieutenant on Tinian in the Mariana Islands in the South Pacific. While serving overseas, his first assignment was in India at Dud Kundi where he flew the Burma Hump, flying to Singapore and Rangoon, Burma, taking supplies to Mukden, China (bombs, gas, food, ammo). They then headed to Langley, VA where Bob went to radar school, graduating in 1944, and then proceeded on his own to Lincoln, NE to await his overseas assignment while Hap went to Minneapolis to await his eventual return. Together, they moved to Carlsbad, NM where he went for further training as a bombardier and a navigator, graduating as a Second Lieutenant in 1944. It was there that he met his future wife, Hap, who was visiting her cousin.įrom Grand Forks, he was sent to pre-flight school in Santa Ana, CA in 1944, and from there to Las Vegas, NV for gunnery school.Īround this time, he and Hap got married Main Minneapolis, Minnesota, enjoying a brief honeymoon in Chicago. From there, he was sent to the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks for studies in becoming a bombardier and navigator in order to become an officer in the Air Corps. He joined the Army Air Corps in 1943 and took his basic training at Wichita Falls, Texas. graduated from Bolton High School in 1941. This is where the family remained and where Robert, Jr. underwent treatment for World War I-related health issues. While a young child, the family moved to Alexandria, Louisiana, where Robert Maddox, Sr. Also preceding him in death were Hap's two sisters, Lael Douglas (John) and Margaret Campbell Wearly (Gordon and Bill). Siblings and spouses, all preceding him in death, were Kathryn Gunn, Grover "Jack" Gunn (Dorothy), Mildred Gunn Villalon (Louis), and Paul Rand Maddox (Mary Lou). He was the last surviving sibling of the five, including all spouses. He was born November 1st, 1923 in Jackson, Mississippi to Nina Bowers Gunn Maddox and Robert Lee Maddox, Sr., the fourth of five children. Bob will be reunited with "Hap" in the Mausoleum at Resthaven Cemetery at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 3rd 2019 at the Deerfield. A memorial service will take place at 10:00 a.m. at Deerfield (13731 Hickman Rd, Urbandale, IA 50323). A visitation will be held on Friday, August 2nd 2019 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. He always knew how blessed he was and frequently remarked about it. peacefully passed away on Jafter a full, wonderful life of 95 years and 9 months. Urbandale - "Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated." Alphonse de Lamartineĭes Moines philanthropist Robert L. ![]()
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