Martinsburg, West Virginia
Robert Chagnon
1932 — 2023
Robert D. Chagnon, a former local resident and teacher, has passed away at his retirement residence in West Virginia on Sunday, January 22, 2023. He was born in Staten Island, New York on May 16, 1932. He was the youngest and last surviving of four children born to Paul Rene Chagnon, Senior and Dorothea Weise Chagnon. His siblings were Annette Matthews, Beatrice Gardiner and Paul Rene Chagnon, Junior. Their father died in 1947 and their mother in 1954. Robert Chagnon received his education in New York, first at Staten Island, then in Shushan, New York, where he attended sixth grade in a two room school, then in Salem, New York, where he graduated from high school in 1950. After service...