| Parents:
Education: Occupation: Military Service: Marriage: |
Alexis George Bordua Lillian Mary Henrietta Augustus Legge Graduated 8th grade Machine operator (at time of enlistment) Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Corps Pacific Theatre in WWII (India and possibly Pakistan) Helen Catherine Molnar January 9, 1946 |
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| Children: | Judith Ann | Nov. 18, 1946 | |
| Leon Robert | Nov. 16, 1949 | ||
| Thomas John | Jan. 11, 1951 | † Apr. 15, 1992 |
| Notes: | At the time of the January 9, 1920 federal census, Robert E. was one year and two months old, and living with his |
| parents, three siblings and a half-sister,
Ann, at 67 Spring Street, in Rockville, Tolland county, CT. His father
was working as an assistant machinist in a woolen mill.
At the time of the April 15, 1930 federal census, Robert E. was 11 years old and living with his parents and eight siblings at 67 Spring Street, Rockville, Tolland county, CT. He was attending school at the time. His father was working as a machinist in a woolen mill. Robert was quite shy as a child, according to his sister Dorothy. He left home when he was about 20 years old to join the military. He was stationed briefly at Scott AFB near Belleville, IL where he met his future wife, Helen Molnar. He shipped out when the United States became involved in WWII, and they apparently corresponded during his time away. When he returned to the States they were married on January 9, 1946. During his four-year tour of duty in England, Robert was in charge of the base post office in Alconbury, a RAF (Royal Air Force) station. He retired from the Air Force in 1962 and moved with his family to Florida. He enjoyed reading science fiction and belonged to a bowling league along with his wife, Helen. Judi reminisces on her father: "Aunt Dot told me that when my father wasn't feeling well he would say to his mother, 'I'm sick as a dog.'" -- from a January 9, 2002 email to Rae Bordua "When our family was stationed at Barksdale AFB, La. in the early 1950s, my father would occasionally take my brothers and me fishing to a local lake. I can still remember those mini fishing poles we had with red handles and our little bait buckets." -- from a January 21, 2002 e-mail to Rae Bordua Sister Dorothy Bordua DeVeau remembers her brother Bobby as "easygoing -- nothing fazed him." |
| Ancestry: | The Bordua Line |
| The Molnar Line [through marriage] | |
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