PEARSON, ROBERT B.

Cpl. Robert Brooks Pearson, who has been in the U.S. Marine Corps four years, was killed in the Gilbert Islands…August [17, 1942], according to word received by relatives here. Cpl. Pearson’s father, the late Walter Pearson, president of the Cascade Utility Company, was accidentally killed at Oakridge while building the dam there. Robert attended grade school at Oakridge, later going to Hill Military Academy.

According to the last letters received from the young Marine, he had served for several months under Col. James Roosevelt, but a short time before his death, he was transferred to the Carlson Raider Battalion a commando type unit formed by the Marines last January. Since he was a flyer, it is believed that his plane was shot down in battle.

His sister, Mrs. Earld Tyler, lives at Blachly; also living in Oregon is an aunt, Mrs. Margaret Pearson, Portland. His mother, Mrs. Jack Crowley, is living at LaFayette, Cal.