Robert Lester Stanfill

1923 - 2015  (91 years)

• Name	Robert Lester Stanfill  [1]
  Nickname	Bobby
  Born	26 Nov 1923	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Milit-Beg	26 Aug 1943	Multnomah County, Oregon, USA   [3]
  	Enlisted in the Army for the duration of the war, a private. He is listed as single, and a sheet metal worker with 3 years of high school education.
  Died	4 Feb 2015
  Obituary	19 Feb 2015	Oregon, USA   [2]
  	Oregon Labor Press: Robert Stanfill, 1923 ? 2015 Feb 19, 2015 In Memoriam Longtime Plasterers Local 82 leader Bob Stanfill passed away Feb. 4 at the age of 91. Robert StanfillStanfill served 16 years as executive secretary-treasurer of the Oregon State Building and Construction Trades Council. He retired from that post in 1984. Stanfill began his labor union career in 1946 after World War II service in the U.S. Army Air Corps, (now the U.S. Air Force). He used his Federal GI Bill benefits to enroll in Local 82?s plastering apprenticeship program. He was elected business agent and financial secretary of Plasterers Local 82 in April 1956. In that job he was instrumental in establishing a health and welfare plan, vacation plan, and pension plan for the membership. In 1959, he helped form the non-profit Plasterers and Lathers Administration Office, which still exists today. During his career, Stanfill served as president of the Portland Building Trades Council (later renamed Columbia Pacific BCTC). He served as vice president of the Union Labor Retirement Association, which built the Westmoreland, Marshall and Kirkland Union Manors that provide affordable apartments for hundreds of retired workers. He also was among the hundreds of delegates to the 1956 merger convention in Portland that produced the Oregon AFL-CIO. In the mid-1970s he was appointed by Gov. Bob Straub to the first State Building Codes Advisory Board. The board established a uniform building code for all cities and counties in Oregon. Stanfill was inducted into Labor?s Hall of Fame in February 2001. The Hall was a program of the now defunct Northwest Oregon Labor Retirees Council. Robert Lester Stanfill was born on Nov. 26, 1923, in the Rose City and grew up in southeast Portland in a family of eight sons and one daughter. His father, Bill, worked as a union grain miller. Stanfill is survived by his wife of 42 years, Pinky; children Barbara Hess, Cheryl Hemmingsen, Karen Bilyeu, Jeff Woods, John Petty, Bob Petty, and Laura Abernathy; 16 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and two more on the way. Hemmingsen is a member of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555; Bilyeu is a member of Office and Professional Employees Local 11; and Woods is a member of Plumbers and Fitters Local 290.\"
  Parents	Bob\'s 1965 marriage record names his father as William H. Stanfill, born in Kentucky, and gives his mother\'s maiden name as Jolley, born in Missouri.  [4]
  Person ID	I837	Gilmore-Donald
  Last Modified	24 Sep 2017

  
  

  Father	William H. Stanfill,   b. 22 Jul 1883, Williamsburg, Whitley County, Kentucky, USA
  Mother	Nancy Jolley,   b. Jun 1885, Laclede County, Missouri, USA
  Married	24 Dec 1906	Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado, USA   [5]
  Family ID	F318	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Norma Roth
  Children	1. Barbara Jean Stanfill   2. Cheryl Stanfill,   b. Between 1943-1948, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA   3. Karen Kay Stanfill
  Last Modified	24 Sep 2017
  Family ID	F336	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Teresa L. Davis
  Last Modified	24 Sep 2017
  Family ID	F334	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Pinky [Stanfill]
  Last Modified	24 Sep 2017
  Family ID	F335	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S968] 1930 U.S. census, Multnomah County, Oregon, population schedule, Darlington (532 70th Ave. SE), enumeration district (ED) 268, sheet 9B (penned), p. 82b (stamped), dwelling 266, family 266, William H. Stanfill household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 September 2017); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1955. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6224/4547517_00774. [S1012] \"Robert Stanfill, 1923-2015,\" obituary (published 19 February 2015), NWLaborPress.org: news for working people (https://nwlaborpress.org/2015/02/robert-stanfill-1923-2015/ : accessed 24 September 2016). [S1011] \"U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946,\" database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 September 2017), Robert L. Stanfill, Multnomah County, Oregon (1943); citing National Archives and Records Administration. Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946 [Archival Database]; ARC:. [S1009] \"Washington, Marriage Records, 1854-2013,\" digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 September 2017), Stanfill-Hennessey, Clark County (1965); Washington Marriage Records, Washington State Archives, Olympia. [S965] \"Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006,\" database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KNQP-3PQ : 14 September 2017), W. H. Stanfill-Nancy Jolly, Las Animas County, Colorado (1906), United States; citing no. 1275, State Archives, Denver; FHL microfilm 1,690,137.