Robert Tyrrell
1927 — 2023
Robert Harry Tyrrell, Age 96, of Woodbridge, Va., passed away, June 22,2023. He was preceded in death by his wife, Frances Graves Tyrrell. Robert was a lifelong resident of Prince William County. Started his path of being an entrepreneur at the young age of 14 by driving a truck to Washington, DC to collect left over food scraps from restaurants and haul it back to Woodbridge to feed his grandfather's hogs. He attended Occoquan High School leaving at 17 to join the US Navy. He served from 1942-1944 in the Seventh Fleet, mostly in the South Pacific. He was stationed at a PT boat base in the Philippines where he worked on boat engines. While on duty there, he would take the boats out and make...