Notes:

Bureau of Vital Statistics
Birth Records of Ellis County, Texas
Robert LeaMond Tune, born Tuesday, September 28, 1926 at 2:30 A. M.
Attending physician, R. S. Payne of Dallas, Texas
Recorded in Birth Records of Ellis County, Texas Volume 10, page 81.

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Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
about Robert Lea Mond Tune
Name: Robert Lea Mond Tune
Date of Birth: 28 Sep 1926
Gender: Male
Birth County: Ellis
Father's name: Robert William Tune
Mother's name: Aletha May Stafford
Roll Number: 1926_0006
Photocopy on file
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: Texas. Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997. Texas: Texas Department of State Health Services. Microfiche.

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1930 United States Federal Census
about Robert LeaMond Tune
Name: Robert Tune
Home in 1930: Precinct 7, Ellis, Texas
Age: 3 6/12
Estimated birth year: abt 1926
Birthplace: Texas
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's name: Robert
Mother's name: Letha
Race: White
Father's Occupation: Barber--owns shop
Class of worker(father): Owner
Residence: Ovilla
Rent/home value: Owned with value of &800.00
Radio Set: Yes
Age at first marriage: single
Parents' birthplace: Father--Texas; Mother--Texas
Household Members: Name Age
Robert Tune 37
Letha Tune 28--Age at first marriage was 23
Robert Tune 3 years 6 months
Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Precinct 7, Ellis, Texas; Roll: 2327; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 41; Image: 511.0(15)
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2002. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.

1940 United States Federal Census
about Robert LeaMond Tune
Name: Robert Tune
Home in 1940: Precinct 7, Ellis, Texas
Age: 13
Estimated birth year: abt 1826
Birthplace: Texas
Relation to Head of House: Son
Race: White
Father's Occupation: Barber--owns shop
Residence: Ovilla
Household number:153
Parents Rent/home value: Owned with value of $300.00
Parents' birthplace: Texas
Household Members: Name, Age, Relation to head of house, Birthplace
Robert Tune 47, head, Texas
Letha Tune 38, wife, Texas
Robert Tune 13, son, Texas
Source Citation: Year: 1940; Census Place: Precinct 7, Ellis, Texas; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: 43; Image: Sheet: 8A
Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.

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Photocopies of records on file......
National Personnel Records Center
Military Personnel Records
9700 Page Avenue
St. Louis, Missouri 63132-5100
National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.nara.gov/regional/stlouis.html

NAVPERS-601
Name: TUNE, Robert LeaMond
Service Number: 358 26 83
Rate: S2c V6
Date reported aboard: 28 December 1944
Present Ship or Station: ARM GRD SCH NAV REP BASE SAN DIEGO CALIF
Ship or Station Received from: NTC SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
Night Vision Test with Radium Plaque Adaptometer
Pass: Yes
Transferred this date to the Armed Guard Center (Pacific) Treasure Island, San Francisco, California for duty in an Armed Guard gun crew. Auth: BuPers Despatch 152007 dated November 1941.

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U. S. Navy Transfer Record 1
25 January 1945
Date received aboard: 26 January 1945
New Ship or Station: Armed Guard Center (Pacific)
Last Ship or Station: AG School NAV RPR BASE, San Diego, Cal.

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21 Aug 1945
Copy of document on file--note that document states ethnicity.....
California Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1957
about Robert LeaMondTune
Name: Robert Tune
Arrival Date: 21 Aug 1945
Age: 18
Birth Date: Abt 1927
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Irish-German (Irish)
Nationality: U. S. A.
Height: 6 feet
Weight: 175
Length of Service at Sea: 6 months
Position in Ship's Company: S 1/c
Shipped or Engaged: When: 01 June 1945; Where: Ulithi Atoll
Whether to be discharged at port of arrival: No
Whether able to read: Yes
Ship Name: Laura Drake Gill
Port of Arrival: San Francisco, California
Port of Departure: Okinawa; Ryukyus via Saipan, Mariana Islands
Archive information (series:roll number): IMUSACA1907:130174
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. California Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008-2011.

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Note about the Ulithi Atoll......
From Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulithi
Ulithi is an atoll in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, about 191 km (103 nautical mi) east of Yap. It consists of 40 islets totalling 4.5 km2 (1.7 sq mi), surrounding a lagoon about 36 km (22 mi) long and up to 24 km (15 mi) wide-at 548 km2 (212 sq mi) one of the largest in the world. It is administered by the state of Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia. Ulithi's population was 773 in 2000. There are four inhabited islands on Ulithi Atoll. They are Falalop, Asor, Mogmog, and Fedarai. Falalop is the most accessible with an air strip, a small resort hotel, gas dealership, store and one of three public high schools in Yap state. Mogmog is the seat of the high chief of Ulithi Atoll though each island has its own chief.

Ulithi was a major staging area for the U.S. Navy in the final year of the Second World War. As the Second World War moved west across the Pacific, the US Navy required a more forward base for operations. The Japanese had established a radio and weather station on Ulithi and had used the lagoon as an anchorage occasionally early in the war, but had abandoned it by 1944.

Ulithi was perfectly positioned to act as a staging area for the US Navy's western Pacific operations.[3][4] The atoll is in the westernmost of the Caroline Islands, 360 miles (580 km) southwest of Guam, 850 miles (1,370 km) east of the Philippines and 1,300 miles (2,100 km) south of Tokyo. It is a typical volcanic atoll, with a coral reef, white sand beaches and palm trees. Ulithi's forty small islands barely rise above the sea, with the largest being only half a square mile in area. However the reef runs roughly twenty miles north and south by ten miles across, enclosing a vast anchorage with an average depth of 80 to 100 feet (30 m). The anchorage was well situated, but there were no port facilities to repair ships or re-supply the fleet.[5]
U.S. naval forces including carriers in the distance at anchor in Ulithi March 1945

On September 23, 1944, an army regiment of the 81st Division landed unopposed, followed a few days later by a battalion of Seabees.[6] The survey ship USS Sumner surveyed the lagoon and reported it capable of holding 700 vessels. It became the undisclosed Pacific base for the major operations late in the war, including Leyte Gulf and the Okinawa operation. The huge anchorage capacity was greater than either Majuro or Pearl Harbor, and over seven hundred ships anchored there at a time.

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Note about the ship Laura Drake Gill
U.S. Merchant Ships Participating in Pacific Theater Combat Operations and Engagements Earning Battle Stars
Assault-occupation of Okinawa Gunto
26 June 1945-30 June 1945
Source: http://www.usmm.org/battlepacific.html

Maritime Commission Hull Number
Liberty Ship
2943 - Laura Drake Gill
Source: http://www.usmm.org/libertyships.html

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Daddy had a photo of the ship S.S. Donald Macleay which also served from 10 May 1945-22 May 1945 in the Assault-occupation of Okinawa Gunto. It is also listed at http://www.usmm.org/battlepacific.html.

Liberty ships
Ship Name: SS Donald MacLeay
Namesake: Donald MacLeay
MC Hull No.: 2040
Ship type: standard
Laid down:12 June 1943
Launched: 1 July 1943
Fate : Scrapped 1967

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Liberty_ships,_C

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U. S. Navy Record Transfer Record 2
Date transferred: 24 February 1946
Present Ship or Station: USN Receiving Station Shoemaker, Calif.
Naval Air Station, Alameda, California
Ultimate Destination & Duty: VR-2, NAS, Alameda, Calif., Furas ComNATS WesCo.
Intermediate Reportings
Reported: 26 February 1946
Transferred: 07 March 1946; Transferred this date to Air Trans Ron FOUR for duty. Auth: NATSPAC OAK. P. O. 13-46 of 27 Feb. 1946
Reporting-Ultimate Destination
Reported at Air Transport Squadron Four
Date & Time: 0800 3-8-46
C. A. Keller Comdr. USN (HR)

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U. S. Navy Record Transfer Record 3
05 June 1946
Shoemaker, Alameda County, California
5450 rn
Name: Tune, Robert LeaMond
Service Number: 358 26 83
Rate: Slc
Class: V6
Present Ship or Station: Air Transport Squadron Four
Transfer Record
Date Transferred: 6/5/46
Authority: ALNAV 395 45
Ultimate Destination & Duty: Trans to US Naval Personnel Sep Cen, Shoemaker, Calif. for discharge
Marks assigned upon transfer: Conduct: 40
Records in man's possession: Service Record; Health Record; Pay record; Personal Effects
G. R. Wachold-ENS
Ass't Pers Officer

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Notice of Separation from U. S. Naval Service
Serial #: 358 26 83
Name: Tune, Robert Leamond
Rank & Classification: Seaman 1/c V6 USNR
Permanent Address: Rt. #2, Midlothian, Texas (Ellis County)
Place of Separation: 5450 Shoemaker, California
Character of Separation: Honorable
Address from which employment will be sought: Rt. #2, Midlothian, Texas (Ellis County)
Race: White
Sex: Male
Marital Status: Married
U. S. Citizen: Yes
Date and Place of Birth: 9-28-26 Ovilla, Texas
Enlistment Date: 22 August 1944
Date of Entry into Active Service: 20 September 1944
Length of Service: 1 year, 9 months, 15 days
Place of Entry into Active Service: Midlothian, Texas
Qualifications, Certificates Held,, Etc.: Seaman 1/c, See rating description booklet. NavPers 15165.
Ratings Held: AS, S2/c, S1/c
Foreign &/or Sea Service: Yes
Service Schools Completed: None
Service (Vessels & Stations Served On): NTC, San Diego, Calif. 8 weeks
AGC (Pacific)
VR-2 NAS, Alameda, Calif.
Kind of Insurance: NSI
Effective Month of Allotment Discontinuance: 6-46
Mo. Next Premium Due: 7-46
Amount of Premium Due Each Month: $6.40
Intention of Veteran to Continue Insurance: No
Total Payment upon Discharge: $111.94
Travel or Mileage Allowance included in Total Payment: $94.40
Initial Mustering Out Pay: Paid
Name of Distributing Officer: B. D. Pollock LT(JG) 520 001
Remarks: Asiatic-Pacific
American Area
Victory Medal
Point System
Signature (By Direction of Commanding Officer):
J. T. Ifft, Lieutenant USNR
Name and Address of Last Employer: North American Aviation Corp., Grand Prairie, Texas
Dates of Last Employment: 9-43 through 7-44
Main Civilian Occupation: Dry cleaning
Job Preference: Dry Cleaning
Non-Service Education (Years Successfully Completed): Gram.: 8/ High School: 3
Vocational or Trade Courses: Typing (H. S. 2 years) & Agriculture (H. S. 2 years)
Off Duty Educational Courses Completed: None
Date of Separation: 6-6-46
Signature: Robert LeaMond Tune

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Daddy's Honorable Discharge Certificate reads as follows:
C3433748
Series C
Honorable Discharge from the United States Navy
This is to certify that Robert LeaMond Tune, a Seaman First Class USNR is Honorably Discharged from the U. S. Naval Personnel Separation Center, Shoemaker, California and from the Naval Service of the United States this 6th day of June 1946.

This certificate is awarded as a Testimonial of Fidelity and Obedience.

W. E. Martin
Captain, USNR, Commanding

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No image available at Ancestry.......
U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
about Robert Leamond Tune
Name: R. Tune
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 28 Sep 1926
Death Date: 6 Nov 1973
SSN: 450300904
Branch 1: NAVY
Enlistment Date 1: 20 Sep 1944
Release Date 1: 6 Jun 1946
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data: Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.

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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982 about Robert L Tune
Name: Robert L Tune
Birth Date: 28 Sep 1926
Birth Place: Ovilla, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Rural, Ellis, Texas
Father: Robert W Tune
Mother: Letha Mae Stafford
Age at Death: 47
Death Date: 6 Nov 1973
Death Place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
Original data:
Texas Department of State Health Services. Texas Death Certificates, 1903-1982. iArchives, Orem, Utah.

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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
about Robert Tune
Name: Robert Tune
Death Date: 6 Nov 1973
Death County: Dallas
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single(Incorrect, was Married)
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Texas Death Index, 1903-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: Texas Department of Health. Texas Death Indexes, 1903-2000. Austin, TX, USA: Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit.

Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976
Certificate # 83342
Name: Robert L. Tune
Death date: 06 Nov 1973....5:08 P. M.
Death place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas...Veterans Administration Hospital
Gender: Male
Race or color (on document): White
Age at death: 47 years
Estimated birth year: 1926
Birth date: September 28, 1926
Birth place: Ovilla, Ellis County, Texas
Marital status: Married
Spouse name: Betty Lou Clark Tune
Father name: Robert W. Tune
Father birth place: Texas
Mother name: Letha Mae Stafford
Mother birth place: Texas
Occupation: Trophy Manufacturer
Social Security Number: 450-30-0904
Residence: Rural (Ovilla) Route 2, P. O. Box 258, Midlothian, Ellis County, Texas
Cemetery name: Ovilla Cemetery
Burial place: Ovilla, Ellis County, Texas
Burial date: Removal on November 6, 1973
Additional relatives: Informant: VA Hospital Records, Dallas, Texas
Film number: 2242947
Digital GS number: 4169226
Image number: 1187
Reference number: 1189
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
Source Citation:
"Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J69B-6HM : accessed 31 Aug 2012), Robert L. Tune, 06 Nov 1973; citing reference 1189, State Registrar Office, Austin, Texas.

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Social Security Death Index
about R. L. Tune
Name: R. L. Tune
SSN: 450-30-0904
Born: 28 Sep 1926
Died: Nov 1973
State (Year) SSN issued: Texas (Before 1951)
Source Citation: Number: 450-30-0904;Issue State: Texas;Issue Date: Before 1951.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.

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Photocopy on file
Obituary
Waxahachie Daily Light
Wednesday 7 November 1973
Page 8, column 5

"R. L. Tune Rites Slated"

"OVILLA--Robert LeaMond Tune, 47, a life-long resident of Ovilla, died Tuesday in the Veterans' Hospital in Dallas.

Mr. Tune was born Sept. 28, 1926, at Ovilla and operated a trophy manufacturing company. He was a member of the Ovilla United Methodist Church and served in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He was a member of the IOOF Lodge, No. 195, at Ovilla, and was past district deputy grand master of the IOOF Grand Lodge of Texas.

Funeral services are planned for Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Ovilla United Methodist Church with the Rev. Larry Sullivan of Fort Worth and the Rev. Richard Beaty of Ovilla officiating. Burial will be in the Ovilla Cemetery under the direction of Boze-Mitchell Funeral Home of Waxahachie.

He is survived by his widow Betty Lou Clark Tune; two daughters both of Dallas; two sons of Ovilla; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Tune of Ovilla; and one granddaughter."

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Laid To Rest

Robert LeaMond Tune
Texas
S1 U. S. Navy
World War II
September 28, 1926-November 6, 1973

Ovilla Cemetery
Plot A2-22
Ovilla, Ellis County, Texas

THE SOLDIERS GRAVE
BY PEARL RIVERS

Tread lightly, 'tis a soldiers grave,
A lonely, mossy mound;
And yet to hearts like mine and thine
It should be holy ground.

Speak softly, let no careless laugh,
No idle, thoughtless jest,
Escape your lips where sweetly sleeps
The hero in his rest.

For him no reveille will beat
When morning beams shall come;
For him, at night, no tattoo rolls
Its thunders from the drum.

Tread lightly! for a man bequeathed,
Ere laid beneath this sod,
His ashes to his native land,
His gallant soul to God.

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Some of my memories of Daddy.....by Gloria Jeanne Tune

"Daddy taught me how to throw, catch and hit a baseball. I was pretty good for a girl! We had many baseball games in the pasture behind our home."

"Sometimes when I think of him, I actually have the oddest memory of how he smelled when he came home from a day at work in his trophy manufacturing shop....a blend of sweat, wood, and what else I don't know. But it was the smell of my Daddy and is a good memory!"

"I remember once in Ovilla a family was in need. The community came together, my father among the group, and bought bags of groceries and gave to the family."

"One time when Daddy came home from somewhere, he opened the door and in walked a sailor in his white uniform. I imagine he was hitchhiking & Daddy gave him a ride."

"Daddy taught me a very hard lesson in life. I was probably less than 10 years old & had a habit of biting the edges of Mama's tin measuring cups. How many I ruined I have no idea, but the last time I did that, Daddy told me he would tear up my Dick Tracy's baby girl doll. Guess I didn't believe him & bit up another cup; Daddy took my doll and destroyed it....I thought he was the meanest man in the whole world, but I never destroyed another thing, be it a tin cup or whatever. Mama told me years later that after destroying the doll, Daddy went outside behind the house and cried."

"Daddy would come home from work occasionally and say "Mama, let's go fishing'. She threw things together so quickly, then we piled into the car & headed to Possum Kingdom Lake. Such fun!"

"When I was young, but probably old enough to know better, my sister & I were playing around with the cigarette lighter in our parents' car. We'd hold it close to our hand, but not touching. So I decided to try it out on my little brother. Problem was, I actually touched it to his hand, whereupon he screamed in pain. I found my Daddy and Mama at the doctor's office, scared more for my brother than myself. I cried all the way home & went straight to bed. I thought for sure I'd get the spanking of my life, but Daddy said I'd suffered enough and thought I learned my lesson."

"Daddy loved to make homemade ice cream and taffy. He helped throw some great socials in Ovilla, some of them down in our pasture....good food, music & lots of watermelons."

"After a day of hard work at the trophy shop, Daddy & Mama would come home tired. Daddy would sit down in his chair in front of the television & of course Mama went to the kitchen to cook supper. Before long Daddy would ask Mama to bring him a glass of tea, which just made me so mad. I wanted to get that glass of tea for him and pour it over his head! Mama never seemed to mind though."

"Daddy was the boss......period!"

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Meaning of Names

Robert
English, Scottish, and French (also Scandinavian): one of the many French names of Germanic origin that were introduced into Britain by the Normans. This one is composed of the nearly synonymous elements hrod fame + berht bright, famous. It had a native Old English predecessor of similar form (Hreodbeorht), which was supplanted by the Norman name. It was the name of two dukes of Normandy in the 11th century: the father of William the Conqueror (sometimes identified with the legendary Robert the Devil), and his eldest son. It was borne by three kings of Scotland, notably Robert the Bruce (1274-1329), who freed Scotland from English domination. The altered short form Bob is very common, but Hob and Dob, which were common in the Middle Ages and gave rise to surnames, are extinct. See also Rupert. Cognates: Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart. Irish Gaelic Roib?aeard. Italian, Spanish, Portuguese: Roberto. German: Rupprecht. Low German (also English): Rupert.

Short forms: English: Bob, Rob. Scottish: Rob, Rab.

Pet forms: English: Bobby, Robbie, Robin.

Scottish: Robbie, Rabbie; Roban (Gaelic).

Feminine form: English: Roberta.
A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192800507

LeaMond

Lemond or Lamond
Scottish: variant of Lamont.

Lamont
Scottish and northern Irish: from the medieval personal name Lagman, which is from Old Norse Logma?Br, composed of log, plural of lag ?Utlaw?Uu (from leggja ?Utto lay down?Uu) + ma?Br, ?Utman?Uu (genitive manns).
French: habitational name from places called Amont, in Haute-Sa?aone and Haute-Vienne.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

Tune Surname
English: variant of Towne.
French (Champagne): possibly from a shortened form of the personal name Opportune, which was borne by an 8th-century abbess of Montreuil.
Towne Surname
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a village, as opposed to an outlying farm or hamlet, from Middle English toun (Old English tun, which originally meant ?Utfence?Uu and then ?Utenclosure?Uu, although the sense ?Utsettlement, village?Uu was already firmly established in the Old English period) .
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
www.ancestry.com

Birth:
Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1935
Name: Robert Lea Mond Tune
Event: Birth
Event Date: 28 Sep 1926
Event Place: Midlothian, Ellis, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Father: Robert William Tune
Mother: Aletha May Stafford
Certificate Number: 57248
Digital Folder Number: 4687359
Image Number: 00308
Source Citation:
"Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1935," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VXM2-KV4 : accessed 30 Aug 2012), Robert Lea Mond Tune, 1926.

Died:
Cause of death: Myocardial Infarction-Complete heart block

Robert married Betty Lou Clark on 23 Oct 1945 in Red Oak, Ellis County, Texas. Betty (daughter of Harvey Clay Clark and Marie Louise Howard) was born on 12 Jan 1926 in Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas, USA; died on 2 Sep 1995 in At home in Ovilla, Ellis County, Texas; was buried on 5 Sep 1995 in Ovilla Cemetery, Plot A2-21, Ovilla, Ellis County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Marriage license #6874

State of Texas, County of Ellis
Robert LeaMond Tune married Betty Lou Clark October 23, 1945 in Red Oak , Ellis County, Texas by Lynn H. McAlden.

Recorded in Book 34, page 295 for Marriages in Ellis County, Texas on November 13, 1945

1. Living Tune
2. Living Tune
3. Living Tune
4. Living Tune