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 First
Lieutenant
Robert Augustus Booth (1922-2000) was
born 11 January 1922, the son of Ernest L. Booth, M.D., and Mary A.
(O'Keefe) Booth, of Winthrop, Mass. He was a student at Harvard, class of
1944, when he enlisted in 1943. After the war he returned to Harvard
University, graduated in the class of 1946, took a Master's degree in
English at University of Maryland, and began a teaching career before
switching to banking in downtown Boston. He worked at first for Brown
Brother's Harriman Co., Inc., then became a security analyst at Eaton, Vance
Co., Inc., a small privately held investment firm where he worked for the
rest of his career (30 years), during which it grew to become Eaton Vance
Corp., a publicly-traded investment giant. He married First Lieutenant Joyce
L. McKay (US Army Nurse Corps, who also had been deployed to the Pacific
during the war) of Marblehead, Massachusetts, on May 20, 1950, and they
resided in Marblehead for the rest of their lives, raising three sons and a
daughter. Bob was a lifelong horseplayer, an amateur actor, a Democrat, a
good tennis and chess player, an avid reader and sports fan, and a proud
member of the Second Emergency who had lifelong close friendships with fellow navigators
Charlie Carver
and Dick Deane, and who decorated his library and his bar with photos from
his AAF days, as well as a hand-made diorama of a model PBY flying over
Misool, Indonesia. He died in July, 2000, of the effects of lung cancer. He
is buried in Waterside Cemetery in Marblehead, Massachusetts. [see
headstone]
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