Robert (Bob) Abraham was born on 16 July 1914, the only child of Saul and Lillian DeGrasse Abraham. He enlisted in the Army in February 1942 and served in the S-2 Section of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment as a Captain and parachuted into Normandy on D-day, 1944. Abraham survived the war, and after a brief stint on Wall Street was commissioned as a Captain in the Regular Army. He retired from the Army as a Colonel and served in the Oklahoma state government. He died at home on 10 March 2004 and is buried in the Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. He ended his military service as a Colonel.