Feb 11, 2021
MARQUETTE, MI – Robert Edward Kimball, age 86, of 1155 S. Vandenboom Road, Marquette, left this world on Saturday, February 6, 2021.
Robert was born April 14, 1934, in Lincoln, Maine. The son of the late Harold E. Kimball and Alice A. (Powers) Kimball.
Robert joined the U.S Navy at age 17 years and served as a radio operator for the Atlantic Reserve Fleet during the Korean War.
While on assignment in Charleston South Carolina, he met and married Darlene Dorothy Pollock on April 7, 1955. Then on April 13, 1955, Robert received honorable discharge from the Navy to begin his life with Darlene. In September 1959, the Kimball family relocated to Marquette Michigan in connection with Robert’s employment with the federal government. It was at this time the Kimball’s chose to make a permanent home for their family in Marquette.