Robert Keown Frankenfield was born on 2 July 1930 in Milford, Burlington, New Jersey.
1 He died on 8 September 1994, at age 64, in Salisbury, Lehigh, Pennsylvania.
1 U.S. Navy-Korean War/ Merchant Marine-Vietnam.
2 Robert Keown Frankenfield was a Maerchant Marine Officer-Mobil Oil Company.
2 Robert was the husband of Joy D. (Donley) Frankenfield
He wastheson of Calvin Sloyer Frankenfield and Dorothy K. (Keown) Frankenfiled
Robert K. Frankenfield, 64, of 1936 Park Lane, Orefield, died Thursday in Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Township. He was the husband of Joy D. (Donley) Frankenfield.
A 1953 graduate of the Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y., he was a merchant marine officer for the Mobil Oil Corp., retiring in 1985. Before that, he taught marine biology at Southampton (N.Y.) College for several years.
Born in Milford, N.J., he was a son of Dorothy K. (Keown) Frankenfield of Allentown and the late Calvin S. Frankenfield.
He was a Navy veteran of the Korean War and served in the Merchant Marines during the Vietnam War.
Survivors: Wife and mother; son, Kurt C., in North Carolina, and a grandson.
Services: 11 a.m. Monday, Trexler Funeral Home, 1625 Highland St., Allentown
(The Morning Call, Allentown, PA, Sept. 9, 1994, page B 07.)