-- Robert Wooldridge, who has been employed at the defense plant at Bettendorf, will go to Des Moines today, having enlisted in the navy. Robert will go into the service as a welder in the Seabees. His wife will remain in Davenport, where she is employed.
Source: Fayette County Leader, April 15, 1943
FAYETTE
Robert Wooldridge is now located at Camp Perry, Williamsburg, Virginia, he having enlisted in the Seabees and is receiving special training as a welder.
Source: Fayette County Leader, unknown date
Word has been received here by his parents, Mr and Mrs. L.A. Wooldridge, that Robert Wooldridge, who is in the Seabees, in now overseas.
Source: The Oelwein Daily Register, January 12, 1944
Robert Wooldridge, Ship-fitter 3/c served with e Seabees in the Aleutians; now at Camp Parks, Calif. -- expects to leave overseas soon.
Source: Fayette County Leader, April 26, 1945
-- Robert Wooldridge, Shipfitter 1/c in the Seabees, wife and son came yesterday to visit in the parental L.A. Wooldridge home. Robert came from Camp Parks, Calif., and is on embarkation leave.
Source: Fayette County Leader, May 24, 1945 (photo included)
Overseas duty is Alaska (12-1943 through 12-1944) and Okinawa (6-1945 through 11-1945)
Source: ancestry.com (His Bonus Pay Application)
Robert Edward Wooldridge was born Dec. 25, 1922 to Lysle A. and Elgia Fern Reese Wooldridge. He died in 2017 and is buried in Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery, Mesa, AZ.
Source: ancestry.com
