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Monday, January 16, 2017West High School in Rochester. After earning a bachelor’s degree in education from the University at Buffalo in 1965, he became a Peace Corps volunteer and spent two years at a maternity center in Monrovia, Liberia.He returned to earn a master’s degree in hospital administration from the University of Virginia Medical College in 1969, then was drafted into the Army. He served in the Vietnam War and was awarded the Bronze Star.Mr. Ford joined Bertrand Chaffee Hospital in 1971 as an administrative assistant to the CEO and was named to the hospital’s top post a year later. Under his leadership, the hospital expanded to include a nursing home, a physical therapy clinic, an obstetrics and gynecology department, and satellite clinics in Boston and Holland.A former resident of Springville and Orchard Park, he moved to Florida after he retired in 1998.Survivors include two daughters, Shawn M. and Mary Shannon; a brother, Lawrence; two sisters, Beverly Lindsay and Marsha Calkins; and two grandchildren.A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Jan. 28 in Hodges Funeral Home at Naples Memorial Gardens, 525 11th Ave. North, Naples, Fla.
Sunday, June 19, 2016South Korea, listening to North Korean radio transmissions.From 1964 to 1989, he was a U.S. Foreign Service officer, with postings in Tananarive, Madagascar; Seoul, South Korea; Fukuoka, Japan; Monrovia, Liberia; Stockholm, Sweden; and London.“My perception at the time was he was a combination of James Bond and Benny Hill,” said Robert Porter Dorr, one of his sons. “My dad spent a great deal of time on the weekends helping his kids see the world and almost always ending up someplace where we could see airplanes and take pictures of them.”Retired foreign-service officer Andrew Antippas of Reston worked with Dorr in 1975 to bring Vietnamese refugees to the United States. The men kept in touch, but only realized years later they were neighbors. Dorr was a “true patriot” who had a wry sense of humor, Antippas said.“In the office, we had a great time commenting on the world around us,” he said. “That comes only with experience. You can only be sarcastic if you know what you’re talking about.”Robert F. Dorr had his first magazine story published at age 15 and originally hoped to write a shelf’s worth of books. He ended up penning three times that many, with a final count in the 80s, plus about 6,000 magazine articles and between 2,000 and 3,000 newspaper columns.Most of his books concerned aviation. He especially was proud of “Hell Hawks,” co-authored with Tom Jones, which detailed exploits of P-47 Thunderbolt pilots in World War II. The author also wrote “Air Force One,” a history of U.S. presidents’ airplanes.Dorr in his prime had a thundering voice that probably could be heard over jet engines. He had a forceful, sometimes combative, personality and expressed annoyance with things that irked him.Dorr opposed the Armed Forces’ transition to a standing professional military.“In World War II, we had the citizen-soldier who went in, did his job, came home and took off his uniform,” he told the Sun Gazette. “That person represented the wishes and desires of the country, of the population. We have gone from having a citizen-soldier to what we call now the ‘warrior ethos.’ I don’t like American military members to be ...
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Monday, January 16, 2017West High School in Rochester. After earning a bachelor’s degree in education from the University at Buffalo in 1965, he became a Peace Corps volunteer and spent two years at a maternity center in Monrovia, Liberia.He returned to earn a master’s degree in hospital administration from the University of Virginia Medical College in 1969, then was drafted into the Army. He served in the Vietnam War and was awarded the Bronze Star.Mr. Ford joined Bertrand Chaffee Hospital in 1971 as an administrative assistant to the CEO and was named to the hospital’s top post a year later. Under his leadership, the hospital expanded to include a nursing home, a physical therapy clinic, an obstetrics and gynecology department, and satellite clinics in Boston and Holland.A former resident of Springville and Orchard Park, he moved to Florida after he retired in 1998.Survivors include two daughters, Shawn M. and Mary Shannon; a brother, Lawrence; two sisters, Beverly Lindsay and Marsha Calkins; and two grandchildren.A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Jan. 28 in Hodges Funeral Home at Naples Memorial Gardens, 525 11th Ave. North, Naples, Fla.
Sunday, June 19, 2016South Korea, listening to North Korean radio transmissions.From 1964 to 1989, he was a U.S. Foreign Service officer, with postings in Tananarive, Madagascar; Seoul, South Korea; Fukuoka, Japan; Monrovia, Liberia; Stockholm, Sweden; and London.“My perception at the time was he was a combination of James Bond and Benny Hill,” said Robert Porter Dorr, one of his sons. “My dad spent a great deal of time on the weekends helping his kids see the world and almost always ending up someplace where we could see airplanes and take pictures of them.”Retired foreign-service officer Andrew Antippas of Reston worked with Dorr in 1975 to bring Vietnamese refugees to the United States. The men kept in touch, but only realized years later they were neighbors. Dorr was a “true patriot” who had a wry sense of humor, Antippas said.“In the office, we had a great time commenting on the world around us,” he said. “That comes only with experience. You can only be sarcastic if you know what you’re talking about.”Robert F. Dorr had his first magazine story published at age 15 and originally hoped to write a shelf’s worth of books. He ended up penning three times that many, with a final count in the 80s, plus about 6,000 magazine articles and between 2,000 and 3,000 newspaper columns.Most of his books concerned aviation. He especially was proud of “Hell Hawks,” co-authored with Tom Jones, which detailed exploits of P-47 Thunderbolt pilots in World War II. The author also wrote “Air Force One,” a history of U.S. presidents’ airplanes.Dorr in his prime had a thundering voice that probably could be heard over jet engines. He had a forceful, sometimes combative, personality and expressed annoyance with things that irked him.Dorr opposed the Armed Forces’ transition to a standing professional military.“In World War II, we had the citizen-soldier who went in, did his job, came home and took off his uniform,” he told the Sun Gazette. “That person represented the wishes and desires of the country, of the population. We have gone from having a citizen-soldier to what we call now the ‘warrior ethos.’ I don’t like American military members to be ...
