

Doing the things he loved seemed to contribute to his long life. His happiest days were the ones when he could take his boys and springer spaniels out duck hunting, sometimes in the marshes of Scarborough, said another son, Ronald Fleury of Portland, Maine. They had four sons, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. They moved to Maine after his military service ended and the weather service offered him a spot in either Portland or Caribou in the state’s rural far north. They were married for 67 years, beginning as teenagers just before he went off to war. Robert Fleury was born in New York City and met his future wife when they were growing up in Queens and shared a circle of friends who spent their days at Coney Island. Joyce talks about his Chicago roots, Tom Skilling influence, and passion for gardening. “They’d say ‘Hey Bob, what’s the weather going to be like tomorrow?’ They’d honk at him and say, don’t you know it’s gonna rain?” WGN-TV’s newest meteorologist Tim Joyce stops by the WGN Radio studios to officially meet the Sunday morning crew. “Of course they picked on him,” Bob Fleury said about locals who heard his father’s radio work. He died April 21 at the Maine Veterans’ Home in Scarborough, the site of a devastating outbreak that claimed 11 residents and one spouse in just a month. He had been healthy and independent into his 90s and even overcome bladder cancer, but a fall had complicated his medical condition. Like thousands of other veterans and elderly people in nursing homes around the country, Fleury was isolated from his family and friends when he died at 94 from the coronavirus. After becoming only the third African American.
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In Portland, Maine, where he and his wife moved after the war, the friendly, good-natured Fleury would take it in stride when he occasionally botched a forecast and was teased by town golfers after it rained on their game. He would later parlay the skills he learned in Quonset huts along the Bering Sea into a decades-long career with the National Weather Service.

Navy in the frigid Aleutian Islands off Alaska. PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Robert Fleury knew he wanted to serve his country when he was a teenager, so he signed up for one of the most remote assignments in World War II - tracking the weather for the U.S. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
