Posted on: Van Arsdale Obituaries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/FamilyAssoc/VanArsdaleObits/29 Surname: Van Arsdale ------------------------- On Saturday the 9th day of Spetember, 1995, Robert Wayne Van Arsdale died of a massive coronary. He was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania on March 15, 1918. His mother died when he was young and his father was a train engineer (named Valentine or Val for short). He had a brother named Doug and a step mother named Fannie. He attended Syracuse University and was a member of the swim team. He Graduated in 1940 and then moved to Buffalo, New York. On December 26, 1942 he married Elizabeth Sommerville Jones (daughter of Anne Beatty Jones and Robert L. Jones. He served in France during World War II. He and Elizabeth had two daughters, Margaret Anne "Peggy" (01/01/1944) and Elizabeth "Beth" (02/04/1949). The family moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1952 and he remained there until the mid 1990s. The couple divorced in the early 1960s. In 1972, he remarried. His new wife's name was Rosemary. Through his two daughters he had three grandchildren: Margaret gave birth to ANNE ELIZABETH MURPHY (daughter of JOHN DENNIS MURPHY of Yonkers, New York) on July 15,1977. Elizabeth had two sons by Gary Brian Carpenter of Crofton, Maryland: GARY BRIAN, JR. February 23, 1975 and SCOTT MICHAEL on August 30, 1977. R.W. Van Arsdale died in South Carolina, while on vacation. He was a resident of Murphy, North Carolina. He is survived by his two daughters and three grandchildren. He had family in Maryland and New York. Possibly, family still lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida or parts of the MidWest.