SALEM - Earle Robinson, 80, died peacefully at home with his family in Salem on June 2, 2008.
He was a Maine farm boy who spent the WW II years building submarines at Portsmouth while attending York High School. During this period, he and some other boys misdirected a German spy to a local security officer’s home.
Drafted after completing high school, he was a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne. He then earned his BA in Sociology at the University of Maine. Called up a second time, he served as an artillery officer in Korea, seeing extensive combat.
After leaving the Army, Earle became a Red Cross coordinator. He then had a career as an auditor for the State of New York, specializing in welfare fraud. After retiring from that, he became Chief Financial Officer for 7-128 Software, a Salem computer game company.
Earle scuba dived, rode a Harley, hunted, bowled, golfed, was an avid reader of history, enjoyed traveling around the US and Europe, and being with his friends in Family Tree and the Top of the Hill Gang. He was a great story teller and good to friends and strangers.
He is survived by Eleanor Robinson, his wife of 49 years, Kit Lawrence, his daughter, Cdr. Robert Robinson and Ken Robinson, his sons, 8 grandchildren, his brother, John Robinson, and his sisters, Nathalie Anderson and Margaret Mellis. He was predeceased by his sister Marion Wright and his brother Paul Robinson.
A memorial celebration of Earle’s life will be held at 1:00 PM on June 22nd in the library room at the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem. Relatives and friends respectfully invited. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to the American Heart Association, 20 Speen St., Framingham, MA 01701. Funeral services provided by Full-Spychalski Funeral Home, Salem. For on-line guestbook, visit www.SalemFuneral.com.