The Westminster Fire Department remembers past Westminster
Fire Department Chief Robert DuVall
April 23, 2004 – April 23, 2020 by Kevin Dayhoff
WW II Marine Veteran, Small Business Owner, Welder, and an
Avid Motorcyclist
On Friday, April 23, 2004, Carroll County and the greater
Westminster community suffered a great loss with the passing of Robert Emerson
DuVall, 81, of Westminster.
He was a 1939 graduate of Westminster High School.
During World War II, he served with the 3rd Marines, 4th Air
Wing in the Marshall Islands, Guam, and Pelilu.
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Mr. DuVall was born July 12, 1922, in Carroll County, he was
the son of the late G. Wilmer and Mercedes Brown DuVall.
Surviving, in addition to his wife of 53 years, Leona
Hammett DuVall, are daughter and son-in-law Donna and Robert Shaeffer of
Westminster; son and daughter-in-law Robert Emerson DuVall II and Patsi DuVall
of Atlanta; sister and brother-in-law Donna DuVall Sellman and Russell A.
Sellman of Westminster. Granddaughters Nicole DuVall Pomeroy and husband Tim,
and Laci DuVall Shaeffer; grandson Robert Emerson DuVall III; and
great-grandson Daniel DuVall Pomeroy.
He was a 1939 graduate of Westminster High School. During
World War II, he served with the 3rd Marines, 4th Air Wing in the Marshall
Islands, Guam, and Pelilu.
He was the owner of Mobile Welding Service, which he founded
in 1948. He was the 11th state certified welder in Maryland.
An avid motorcyclist and trap shooter, he was the Maryland
State Trapshooting Handicap Champion in 1966. He was a member of Westminster
United Methodist Church, VFW Post 467 and a life member of North Carroll and
Carroll County gun clubs. He was a past chief of Westminster Fire Department.
Our thoughts and prayers are with his family as they adjust
to life without him. This Memorial Tribute by the Westminster Mayor, Common
Council and the Staff of The City of Westminster on behalf of the citizens of
the City of Westminster, was signed in Westminster City Hall, this April
Twenty-fifth in the year Two Thousand and Four. Westminster Mayor Kevin Dayhoff
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