Robert Glenn Kerr

Bob is survived by Maureen, his wife of 51 years, his daughter Ashely, his son Allen, grandchildren Ryan and Kandice, brother James Floyd Kerr Jr., and two stepsons, William and Michael Dawson.

Born in North Carolina in 1935, he and his family moved to Miami when he was six.

He told stories of going out in the Everglades frog gigging with his buddy Raymond.

When he was 18, he went to the Navy and served as an aircraft mechanic on the carrier USS Princeton during the Korean War, 1954 through 57. He remembered sleeping just below the flight deck. He would have to turn the propellers to start the Corsair airplanes to fly off the deck.

When he came home to Miami, his cousin introduced him to the Glaziers Union where he became an apprentice. Through the Glazers Union, he worked throughout the United States and the Bahamas playing Spider-Man on the high-rise buildings. It was in Las Vegas where he was working on the MGM Grand hotel that he met his future wife and fell in love. Maureen was a widow with two small boys and Bob said that he was marrying the three of them. He had Bill and Mike stand at the altar at Saint Michael’s Church in Las Vegas for the ceremony. A few months later, they moved to Miami where Bob continued to work for the union, but it was not a good place to raise two young boys, so they bought a 90 acre farm in Madisonville Tennessee where the boys had a variety of animals. Four years later Ashley was born in Sweetwater, Tennessee. Bob worked as a glazer until he retired in 2005. He was a devoted family man who loved his family very much.

His ashes will placed at the VA National Cemetery with honors in Lake Worth, Florida on July 25, 2025.