Paul Fenimore Roberts

1928 - 1999  (70 years)

• Name	Paul Fenimore Roberts
  Birth	6 Jun 1928	Grand Island, Hall, Nebraska   [1]
  		Paul Roberts birth certificate
  Gender	Male
  Death	4 Apr 1999	Tehachapi, Kern, California   [2]
  		Paul Roberts death certificate 1 of 2
  		Paul Roberts death certificate 2 of 2
  Person ID	I4	Mouchet-Roberts genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Dec 2018

  
  

  Father	Lewis Fletcher Roberts,   b. 12 Dec 1904, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States d. 23 Aug 1958, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States (Age 53 years)
  Mother	Clara Belle Keller,   b. 8 Apr 1907, Mason City, Custer, Nebraska, United States d. 1 Jun 1962, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	24 Nov 1925	Grand Island, Hall, Nebraska, United States   [3]
  Family ID	F1614	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Waneta June Baldwin,   b. 16 Feb 1932, Frontier, Lincoln, Wyoming d. 11 Aug 1997, Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	13 Oct 1953	Murray, Utah, United States   [4]
  	Note, marriage certificate does not have the year and is also missing clerk's signature and embossing.
  		Paul and Waneta Roberts marriage certificate Note: this is apparently not the official certificate, as it's missing the year and the recorder information.
  		Paul and Waneta marriage certificate
  Children	1. Living
  Family ID	F1541	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Feb 2021

  
  

• Photos		At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
  		cropped_headshots/Paul-Roberts.jpg

  
  

• Notes

  Graduated in 1947 from South High School in Salt Lake City. According to Wikipedia: "A high school no longer extant—South High School, on State Street—once served the southern part of Salt Lake City. The district built this school during the depression to accommodate about 1000 students from the private LDS High School, which closed in 1931. Located in what became a business district by the 1980s, falling enrollment prompted the district to close South High after the 1987-1988 school year. The district donated the school building to the Salt Lake Community College." In his High School Annual he wrote his address: 1216 Charlton Ave. After graduating, he entered the Army. After that he attended college. Owned and operated a service station in Salt Lake City. Paul, Waneta and Paulette moved to California in 1958 where he became an aerospace engineer. Worked for Litton for a number of years. Invented a device that deployed the reentry parachute for the Apollo spacecraft. On the design team for the ring laser gyro.

  
  

• Sources

  [S12147] Nebraska birth certificate, birth certificate; 12387; 12 July 1988; Paul Fenimore Roberts. [S12149] Kern County death certificate, death certificate; 3199915001447; 10 December 1999; Paul Fenimore Roberts. [S12200] Nebraska Marriage Record, Marriage of Lewis Fletcher Roberts and Clara Belle Keller; 24 November 1925; 4343. [S12151] Salt Lake County marriage certificate, marriage certificate; Paul Fenimore Roberts and Waneta Marie Baldwin.