Posted by Suzanne Ives Dunkley on October 20, 2014:

From his obituary: On July 27, 2006, Robert Northrup "Bob" Ives was deployed to his greatest adventure at the age of 84 years and 8 months after a courageous battle with heart disease and lung cancer. The gregarious U.S. Army retired colonel died in hospice surrounded by family, having been sung gently to sleep. He has joined his brother, Albert "Babe" Ives and his parents, Albert Russell Ives and Myrtle Ruth Lindgren Ives. Gene Pauline Hine Ives' loving husband of 60 years was born on November 27, 1921 in Fort Bragg, NC and raised five children, Sheryl Ives-Boynton, Robert Ives, Jr., Suzanne Ives Dunkley, Aemelia Ives, and Russell Ives. A gifted artist, Col. Ives had planned to study commercial art at UCLA which he attended for a year, but after his father was captured in Bataan in World War II he entered The United States Military Academy at West Point where he graduated in 1945. His father survived prison camp and Bob continued his military career. He was assigned to Korea in 1946, but married Gene first in San Antonio, Texas in 1946. He was then ordered to Ft. Devens, MA and Ft. Benning, GA. In 1953 he served honorably in the Korean War. He was assigned to the Presidio of San Francisco and the Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth, KS. He joined the 82nd Airborne Division of Ft. Bragg. He was then assigned to the University of Hawaii as a professor of Military Science. He later served with the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. He served again in Korea in 1966. At his request, he was sent to Vietnam in 1970. He and his family lived for nearly 40 years in Alexandria, VA. Col. Ives retired from the service in 1972 and worked as a civilian for twelve years. He and Gene moved to Melbourne, FL in 2001 where he has enjoyed fishing the Atlantic and playing golf, having achieved the goal of shooting his age when he was 80. Bob was a soldier, engineer, artist, fisherman, golfer, inventor, poet, musician, songwriter, patriot, friend, family man, Christian, and loyal American. He will be remembered as humane, smart, handsome, passionate, generous, forgiving, funny, loving, mischievous, strong, and kind. He was a man truly dedicated to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness--a Defender of Freedom, Patron of the Arts, lover of the sea, and a caller of crows. "The Colonel" will be dearly missed by all who knew and loved him. In addition to his wife and five children, he is survived by five grandchildren, Vivianne Barrett, Dylan Boynton, Bryan Ives, Genelle Ives, and Stirling Ives; as well as three great-grandchildren: William, Patrick, and Thomas Barrett. A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, August 2 at 2 P.M. at Beckman-Williamson Funeral Home on Murrell Ave. He will be interred at a future date at Arlington National Cemetery. The family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

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