Im stuck with just a name and death location

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I am looking for info on my paternal grandfather Lee W Robinson Born ABT 1925 He died on the Van Wyke expressway New York, USA around Nov. 1960. I believe he was married to a woman named Patricia and I have been told my father had a brother and I am looking for more info. on any family. I believe his mother was named Naomi (Robinson*) and father was Lonnie Mc Queen from North Carolina I believe.

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Your fatherʻs name and birth place might help find your grandfather, in addition to the state and city.

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Sadly, it wont. My grandmother was from a Zionist family and my grandfather was black. Not a real popular happening in 1957 when my father was born. My hunch is that he was omitted from many family records because of this

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Lee Robinson

 in the New York, New York, Death Index, 1949-1965

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Name:	Lee Robinson
Age:	35
Birth Date:	abt 1925
Death Date:	10 Nov 1960
Death Place:	Queens, New York, New York, USA
Certificate Number:	13084

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Lee W Robinson

 in the U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, 1942-1954

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Name:	Lee W Robinson
Gender:	Male
Race:	Black
Rank:	Enlisted Man
Admission Age:	18
Birth Date:	abt 1925
Birth Place:	USA
Admission Date:	Oct 1943
Admission Place:	Camp Swift, Bastrop, Texas
Discharge Date:	Nov 1943
Military Branch:	Engineers
Diagnosis:	Diagnosis: Strain, sacroiliac, chronic; Diagnosis: (1) Strain, sacro-iliac (old) or (2) Strain, sacro-iliac (old) or lumbo-sacral (old)^
Injured in Line of Duty:	Not in Line of Duty, existed prior to entry into service
Type of Discharge:	Discharged for disability, not in line of duty (existed prior to service)
Length of service:	5 - 6 months
Service Number:	33717532

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Lee W Robinson

 in the U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, 1942-1954

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Name:	Lee W Robinson
Race:	White, includes Mexican (White)
Rank:	Enlisted Man
Admission Age:	20
Birth Date:	abt 1924
Admission Date:	Jul 1944
Discharge Date:	Jul 1944
Military Branch:	Engineers, General or Unspecified
Diagnosis:	FirstLocation: Ankle joint; CausativeAgent: Falling Earth, Stone, or Other Material
Type of Injury:	Injury, non-battle
Injured in Line of Duty:	In line of duty
Type of Discharge:	Duty
Length of service:	1 Year(s), 3 Month(s)
Service Number:	38420985

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What country, state please?

Answer 2

There is a Queens New York, New York death certificate for Lee Robinson, born abt 1925, who died 10 Nov 1960.   It is certificate #13084.   You can order it on line https://www.health.ny.gov/vital_records/death.htm

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That is him Thank you! I ordered this years ago but I seem to have lost it. That is where I got his parents names but it doesn't seem that they are listed in any census or anything else. Got any ideas for any ways to gather more info?

Answer 3

This military record seems to be attached (I cannot tell whether correctly or incorrectly) to a familysearch profile for your grandfather.  In that profile his spouse is given as Ruth Goodman?  Does any of this correlate with what you already know?

"United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMV9-DF3 : 5 December 2014), Lee W Robinson, enlisted 27 Mar 1943, Baltimore, Maryland, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 1263923, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.