- Date Of Birth: February 14, 1920
- Date Of Death: July 4, 2017
- State: Maryland
Boris “Bob” Spiroff
Sergeant First Class Boris R. Spiroff, (Ret.) US Army, passed away at 2:08am on the 4th of July, after a long and distinguished career in service to his country in World War II and Korea.
Bob was born on Valentine’s Day, 1920. Two years after he was born he went to his parent’s Toni and Mary Spiroff’s homeland of Yugoslavia to live with family and eventually made it back to Baltimore, Maryland in 1928 unable to speak English he had a sign around his neck stating who he was when his aunt picked him up and from that day forward raised him as her son. He loved his aunt especially because she looked like his mother who had passed in Yugoslavia from the Tuberculosis epidemic. He was raised with her five children and enjoyed a close relationship that was characterized more as brothers and sisters than cousins. In 1937 he joined the Army a few days after turning 17 and served in Panama. He served there until the outbreak of WWII, when he was transferred to Louisiana.
