He attended St. Mary's Catholic School and Holy Rosary Catholic School in Greenville for his elementary education, and is a 1968 graduate of Greenville Senior High School.

After a short tour in the US Marine Corps, he married Yvette Beaks of Greenville. When their marriage ended, he moved to Salt Lake City, UT, where he became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In Utah, he married Carol Chapman, and with her fathered a beautiful daughter, Brittney Nicole, in 1987. He is now divorced from Carol, but still lives in Salt Lake City.

Robert Anthony Flaspoehler, suffered Traumatic Brain Injury as a result of a pedestrian/vehicle accident on July 22, 2002. He was air lifted from the accident scene to LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, where he remained in a coma for several weeks. After his stay in the hospital for three weeks, he was transferred to Wasatch Valley Rehabilitation Center in Salt Lake City.

 He has now come out of the coma, and seems to be on a slow but steady improvement. He was placed on a tracheotomy or breathing tube and feeding tube while he was still in the hospital. He is now off the trache, but still needs the feeding tube because he is not yet able to swallow reliably, and is probably not able to feed himself anyway.

Nevertheless, Rob is fast improving since coming out of the coma, and is straining the staff resources at Wasatch Valley Rehab, who are trained to handle geriatric patients, rather than a very active TBI patient who is improving rapidly. Security is the main problem, especially since he wants to "go home," which means walk out into the street, unattended.

In October, 2002, Rob was transferred to the Infinia at Granite Hills rehab facility in Salt Lake City, which specializes in TBI patients. It is perhaps not as nice as Wasatch Valley Rehab, but they do offer the security he needs so he will not walk out of the building and into the street.