ROBERT DAVID DIRLING, 41, of 12332 93rd St. N, Seminole, died Saturday (Jan. 27, 1990) in St. Petersburg. He came here in 1955 from his native Pittsburgh. He was a cable repairman for General Telephone Co. for 17 years, a Vietnam War Army veteran and a member of Aldersgate United Methodist Church, Seminole. He also was a member of the Disabled American Veterans and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Survivors include his wife, Joanne P.; three sons, Robert Raymond, Michael David and George Galbraith, all of Seminole; two daughters, Anita Kay, Seminole and Patricia Lynn, Clearwater; a brother, David Michael, Seminole; and a sister, Patricia Wright, Houston.