Robert Niven Frizzell’s father served in World War I and then again in World War II after Robert was killed at Pearl Harbor.

Robert was born March 22, 1923, at Myton, Utah to Francis Niven Frizzell  and Alma Miller Frizzell.

Another son was born premature and survived only two hours in October 1926 in Miami, Arizona. The father worked at a mine.  By 1935  the family, which included five children, had moved to California.

Son Robert finished his freshman year at Orland Union High in the spring of 1941 and enlisted in the Navy on June 21. He was a seaman second class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.

The next April the town of Orland, population 1,366, dedicated a service flag that hung for the duration of the war at the Masonic building. It included 168 stars for the local men already in the military and three gold stars — including one for Mr. Frizzell — for those killed.

His father, 49, enlisted in the Naval Reserve in September 1942 and served three years in northern Idaho and at Mare Island Naval Base, California as a pharmacist’s mate and petty officer first class.