AGATE HARBOR/LAKE LINDEN — Robert F. Carlton, 100, of Agate Harbor and Lake Linden, passed away on Sept. 23, 2025.

He was born in Laurium on Aug. 5, 1925, the son of Catherine (Viani) and Arthur Frederic Carlton.

He attended Calumet High School and joined the war effort by serving in the United States Navy, enlisting in August of 1942. He saw action in the Asian-Pacific at the Aleutians, Tarawa, Kwajalein, and Saipan.

In 1944, while attending a Naval school in Syracuse, New York, he met and married Margaret (Peggy) Taylor on Sept. 26, 1944. He would further serve in the Navy during the Korean conflict and again in Vietnam.

His Naval career would continue in the early 1950s, taking him to Idaho Falls, Idaho, where he worked on the Navy’s nuclear beginnings as an instructor. He was to be

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