Frank Mason Robinson, eldest child of Cmdr. Hugh Burton Robinson (USN Ret.) and Marion Willett Mason, b. of record Sept. 8, 1914 at Springfield, Mass. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Frank B. Mason.
Like his two-year younger brother Hugh Marston Robinson, Frank graduated from the Severn School, class of 1932, a Naval Academy preparatory school in Severna Park, Maryland. Frank was subsequently a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Class of 1936, with the rank of Ensign. In 1940 he was designated Naval Aviator #6463 and rank of Lieut. J.G. stationed at a Naval Air facility near Warrington, Florida.
On June 1, 1939 at Long Beach, CA and witnessed by his father , Frank married Eleanor Ann Cheroske, dau. of Anton Frank Cheroshe and Eleanor Dorothy Petsel, b. Feb. 22, 1918 in Long Beach. She was a 1936 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley where she was then residing. By this marriage was born one child, Anne Marion Robinson at San Diego on Aug. 27, 1940. Unfortunately, on Mar. 17, 1941 during a flight near the Hawaiian Islands, Frank as the pilot of one aircraft was killed in a mid-air collision with another aircraft. From military researcher Mike Weeks:
• On 17 March 1941, two TBD-1's (carrier-based torpedo planes) operating from the aircraft carrier USS YORKTOWN (CV-5) collided near Hawaii. Six servicemen perished, with only two bodies being recovered, that of the pilots, LTJG F. M. Robinson, USN, and ENS K. L. Berry, USNR.
Frank Mason Robinson was an 11th generation descendant of Rev. John Robinson (1576-1625) and Bridget White, the former the pastor at Leiden, Holland of the core 1620 Mayflower pilgrims who founded the Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts. Frank was also a 12th generation descendant of 1620 Mayflower passenger Edward Fuller.
Revised 3/12/2019
Like his two-year younger brother Hugh Marston Robinson, Frank graduated from the Severn School, class of 1932, a Naval Academy preparatory school in Severna Park, Maryland. Frank was subsequently a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Class of 1936, with the rank of Ensign. In 1940 he was designated Naval Aviator #6463 and rank of Lieut. J.G. stationed at a Naval Air facility near Warrington, Florida.
On June 1, 1939 at Long Beach, CA and witnessed by his father , Frank married Eleanor Ann Cheroske, dau. of Anton Frank Cheroshe and Eleanor Dorothy Petsel, b. Feb. 22, 1918 in Long Beach. She was a 1936 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley where she was then residing. By this marriage was born one child, Anne Marion Robinson at San Diego on Aug. 27, 1940. Unfortunately, on Mar. 17, 1941 during a flight near the Hawaiian Islands, Frank as the pilot of one aircraft was killed in a mid-air collision with another aircraft. From military researcher Mike Weeks:
• On 17 March 1941, two TBD-1's (carrier-based torpedo planes) operating from the aircraft carrier USS YORKTOWN (CV-5) collided near Hawaii. Six servicemen perished, with only two bodies being recovered, that of the pilots, LTJG F. M. Robinson, USN, and ENS K. L. Berry, USNR.
Frank Mason Robinson was an 11th generation descendant of Rev. John Robinson (1576-1625) and Bridget White, the former the pastor at Leiden, Holland of the core 1620 Mayflower pilgrims who founded the Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts. Frank was also a 12th generation descendant of 1620 Mayflower passenger Edward Fuller.
Revised 3/12/2019
Frank Mason Robinson, eldest child of Cmdr. Hugh Burton Robinson (USN Ret.) and Marion Willett Mason, b. of record Sept. 8, 1914 at Springfield, Mass. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Frank B. Mason.
Like his two-year younger brother Hugh Marston Robinson, Frank graduated from the Severn School, class of 1932, a Naval Academy preparatory school in Severna Park, Maryland. Frank was subsequently a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Class of 1936, with the rank of Ensign. In 1940 he was designated Naval Aviator #6463 and rank of Lieut. J.G. stationed at a Naval Air facility near Warrington, Florida.
On June 1, 1939 at Long Beach, CA and witnessed by his father , Frank married Eleanor Ann Cheroske, dau. of Anton Frank Cheroshe and Eleanor Dorothy Petsel, b. Feb. 22, 1918 in Long Beach. She was a 1936 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley where she was then residing. By this marriage was born one child, Anne Marion Robinson at San Diego on Aug. 27, 1940. Unfortunately, on Mar. 17, 1941 during a flight near the Hawaiian Islands, Frank as the pilot of one aircraft was killed in a mid-air collision with another aircraft. From military researcher Mike Weeks:
• On 17 March 1941, two TBD-1's (carrier-based torpedo planes) operating from the aircraft carrier USS YORKTOWN (CV-5) collided near Hawaii. Six servicemen perished, with only two bodies being recovered, that of the pilots, LTJG F. M. Robinson, USN, and ENS K. L. Berry, USNR.
Frank Mason Robinson was an 11th generation descendant of Rev. John Robinson (1576-1625) and Bridget White, the former the pastor at Leiden, Holland of the core 1620 Mayflower pilgrims who founded the Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts. Frank was also a 12th generation descendant of 1620 Mayflower passenger Edward Fuller.
Revised 3/12/2019
Like his two-year younger brother Hugh Marston Robinson, Frank graduated from the Severn School, class of 1932, a Naval Academy preparatory school in Severna Park, Maryland. Frank was subsequently a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Class of 1936, with the rank of Ensign. In 1940 he was designated Naval Aviator #6463 and rank of Lieut. J.G. stationed at a Naval Air facility near Warrington, Florida.
On June 1, 1939 at Long Beach, CA and witnessed by his father , Frank married Eleanor Ann Cheroske, dau. of Anton Frank Cheroshe and Eleanor Dorothy Petsel, b. Feb. 22, 1918 in Long Beach. She was a 1936 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley where she was then residing. By this marriage was born one child, Anne Marion Robinson at San Diego on Aug. 27, 1940. Unfortunately, on Mar. 17, 1941 during a flight near the Hawaiian Islands, Frank as the pilot of one aircraft was killed in a mid-air collision with another aircraft. From military researcher Mike Weeks:
• On 17 March 1941, two TBD-1's (carrier-based torpedo planes) operating from the aircraft carrier USS YORKTOWN (CV-5) collided near Hawaii. Six servicemen perished, with only two bodies being recovered, that of the pilots, LTJG F. M. Robinson, USN, and ENS K. L. Berry, USNR.
Frank Mason Robinson was an 11th generation descendant of Rev. John Robinson (1576-1625) and Bridget White, the former the pastor at Leiden, Holland of the core 1620 Mayflower pilgrims who founded the Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts. Frank was also a 12th generation descendant of 1620 Mayflower passenger Edward Fuller.
Revised 3/12/2019
Inscription
FRANK MASON ROBINSON
Lieutenant (J.G.) U.S. NAVY
Sept. 8, 1914 - Mar. 17, 1941
Gravesite Details
Frank is interred two spaces from the monument for his parents also interred at Arlington National.
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