GEN Robert Francis Worden

1911 - 2005  (94 years)

• Name	GEN Robert Francis Worden  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Born	10 Oct 1911	El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Gender	Male
  Died	22 Dec 2005	San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA   [4, 5]
  Buried	Parkhill Cemetery, Columbus, Muscogee, Georgia, USA   [4]
  Person ID	P57782	Miller & Lounsbury
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2019

  
  

  Father	George Francis Worden,   b. 29 Jun 1880, Fort Craig, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA ,   d. 7 Jan 1941, Artesia, Eddy, New Mexico, USA  (Age 60 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Margaret Martin,   b. Jan 1879, Utah, USA ,   d. 22 Jan 1942, El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA  (Age ~ 63 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Married	1909
  Family ID	F15324	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 1	Laurine Julia Virginia Lambrecht,   b. 26 Sep 1916, Sequin, Guadalupe County, Texas, USA ,   d. 23 Mar 1980, Columbus, Muscogee, Georgia, USA  (Age 63 years)
  Married	Abt 1935
  Children	+ 1. Carol Worden,   b. 6 Dec 1936, Louisiana ,   d. 20 Feb 1972, Columbus, Muscogee, Georgia, USA  (Age 35 years)
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2019
  Family ID	F17965	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	Georgia Dines Hale,   b. 19 Oct 1913,   d. 13 Feb 1993, New Mexico, USA  (Age 79 years)
  Married	Aft 1980
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2019
  Family ID	F17964	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		1934 Bob
  		1975 Bob and Laurine
  		1934 Courting days.
  		1960 Bob and Laurine
  		1962 Bob
  		1964 Bob
  		1914 Bob

  
  

  Histories

  Air Force Bio

  
  

• Notes

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert F. Worden was a retired Major General in the U.S. Air Force. He was born in El Paso, Texas, in 1911, and grew up on a farm a hundred miles north, near Hillsboro, New Mexico. In the early 1920's his family lived in Santa Monica, California, where he had a paper route which included the cowboy actor Tom Mix. After high school in El Paso, he worked as a steelworker's helper for a year and then enrolled at Texas A&M University. He received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering in 1933. He enlisted in the Army, entered pilot training and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve in 1935. As a flight instructor at Kelly Field in San Antonio, he trained a number of officers from Argentina, Chile and Colombia because he was fluent in Spanish. During World War II, he was an operations officer and later commander of the 49th Bomber Wing, 15th Air Force, at Foggia, Italy. After the war, he served as chief of plans and then chief of organization and manpower at the headquarters of the Military Air Transport Service, at Gravelly Point, near what is now Reagan National Airport. He attended the Air War College in 1948-49 and then became action officer and later team chief at the Directorate of Plans at U.S. Air Force headquarters. In 1950, he became the first Air Force officer assigned to Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Paris. He also served as deputy director at the Air Force's Directorate of Plans before retiring in 1964. After his retirement, Gen. Worden was vice president of a Columbus, Georgia, bank. He retired a second time in 1977. Gen. Worden's first wife, Laurine Lambrecht Worden, died in 1980. His second wife, Georgia Hale Worden, died in 1993. A daughter, Carol Worden Harvey, died in 1972. Survivors include two children, six grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54171369

  
  

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