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WINSTON-SALEM - Retired U.S. Marine Corps Col. Robert Franke Steidtmann, 93, died Sept. 11, 2009.
He was born in Madison, Wis., on Aug. 10, 1916, to Bertha and Edward Steidtmann. Robert Steidtmann graduated from VMI in 1938, and accepted an immediate commission into the United States Marine Corps. During World War II, he fought with the Third Marine Division on Guadalcanal, Tulagi, Guam, and afterwards served in occupied Japan, and was in the Seventh Marine Service Regiment in Tsingtau, China. He fought with the First Marine Division in the Korean War where he won the Legion of Merit with valor for "Exceptionally Meritorious Conduct." During the Cold War, Col. Steidtmann served in Paris, France, where he attended the NATO Defense College and worked at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. Retiring to Virginia Beach in 1964, he owned an aluminum sidings business and later worked for Culligan Water Conditioner of Tidewater until he was 80. He was preceded in death by his parents; his two brothers, Edward and Carl; and his two sisters, Lois Jane Wilcox and Alice Steidtmann Quigley; his first wife, Elizabeth Wilson Steidtmann; by his second wife, Harriet F. Steidtmann; and by one stepson, Kenneth Richard Davidson.See the full content of this document
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