Robert C. Lewis ’40

After several years of failing health caused by a debilitating stroke, Bob died Nov. 14, 2003, at the home of his daughter, Sandra How, in Vero Beach, Fla.

After preparing at the Lawrenceville School, Bob followed his relative, Ira A. Thomas '26, to Princeton, where he majored in economics and was a member of Cottage Club. During WWII, he was in the Army Ordnance at Aberdeen, Md.

Returning to the area of his birth, Warren, Ohio, Bob expressed his entrepreneurial nature by founding Welded Tubes, Inc., in 1958. He served as president and CEO until his retirement in 1987. A highly respected member of his community, he served on several boards of directors, including Trumbull Hospital and Union Savings Bank, and was president of Trumbull Country Club. Bob reported in the class 25th yearbook, "We are a golfing family." An ardent outdoorsman, he hunted and fished throughout North America and the Caribbean.

Bob's wife, Nancy, preceded him in death as did his son, William. To his surviving family, daughter Sandra How, son Robert Jr., seven grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren, his classmates wish to extend their sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1940