ROBERT EARL CROSS 95 A FORMER LONG TIME NEW CANAAN, CT RESIDENT PASSED AWAY ON MAY 22ND 2016 AFTER A BRIEF ILLNESS IN VERO BEACH, FLORIDA. ROBERT CROSS WAS A NAVY VETERAN WHO SERVED OUR COUNTRY IN WORLD WAR II AND WAS STATIONED AFTER PEARL HARBOR ATTACKS, IN THE PHILIPPINES ABOARD AIRCRAFT CARRIERS INCLUDING THE INTREPID THAT WAS HIT AND SUNK IN 1945.
ROBERT WAS AN ACCOMPLISHED EXECUTIVE IN SALES WITH COMPANIES RANGING FROM BROWN PAPER COMPANY, SCOTT PAPER COMPANY AND WANG LABORATORIES IN THE 70'S BEFORE TAKING ON FIRST TIME COMPUTER SYSTEMS IN THE MID 1970'S WITH DATA CORPORATION IN THE HARTFORD CONNECTICUT AREA BEFORE RETIRING AND MOVING TO TUFTONBORO NH IN 1982.
ROBERT WAS A DEVOTED FATHER TO HIS THREE DAUGHTERS AND LOVING HUSBAND OF THE LATE GLADYS HELEN PARRY CROSS WHO PASSED AWAY 14 WEEKS PRIOR TO HIS DEATH.
THEY WERE MARRIED 66 YEARS AND LIVED IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND ARIZONA BEFORE SETTLING IN SEBASTIAN FLORIDA IN 2000.
ROBERT IS SURVIVED BY HIS DAUGHTERS SUSAN C CORBIN OF BAREFOOT BAY, FLORIDA, BETHANNE CROSS OF FORT WHITE, FLORIDA AND AMY CROSS OF ARIZONA.
HE ALSO WAS A DEVOTED GRANDFATHER AND GREAT GRANDFATHER .
HE WILL BE MISSED RIP
"RUGGED"