Robert Harris Bixler 1906 - 1963

The 4th of 5 children of Charles Harris (a bricklayer) and Lillie Bixler (a seamstress), Robert Bixler, the fourth cousin twice-removed on the mother's side of Nigel Horne, was born in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA on 20 Oct 19061.

He married Anna Weber (with whom he had 1 surviving child, Ruth Ann) in Allen, Indiana, USA on 18 Aug 19282. On 1 Apr 1940, he was living at his birthplace[4].

He died on 7 Jan 1963 at Lutheran Hospital of Indiana, 7950 W Jefferson Blvd, Fort Wayne, Indiana1 (fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 8 January 1963, p. 2A: Robert H. Bixler, 56, of 7318 Baer Road, died yesterday in the Lutheran Hospital. He was a lifelong resident of Fort Wayne. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Walter (Ruth Ann) Gerke, Fort Wayne; two brothers, Charles F. Harris and Berton Harris, a sister, Mrs. Alice Shank, and a half-sister, Mrs. John Jones, all of Fort Wayne; three grandsons, and the foster mother, Mrs John Bixler of Cleveland Ohio. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m.Wednesday in the Elzey Home for Funerals in Waynedale. Rev. H. H.Backs will officiate and burial will be in Covington Memorial Gardens. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. today) and is buried at Covington Memorial Gardens, Fort Wayne.

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Citations

1. Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011
2. United States Marriages - Findmypast
3. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
4. US Census 1940 - Findmypast (was age 33 and the head of the household)