Robert Easton Boyes ’28

BOB ROYES DIED Feb. 19, 1991, in Ashbrook Nursing Home in Scotch Plains, NJ. He had never recovered completely from injuries suffered in Apr. 1981 in an automobile accident which took the life of his wife, Peggy. Bob graduated from South Orange High School and at Princeton majored in history and was a member of Gateway Club. He studied law at Fordham.

Bob spent his entire business career with the N.Y. Telephone Co., chiefly in the area of employee benefits. He was related to A.T.& T. also, and retired in 1971.

He was active in numerous civic and charitable activities in the Plainfield area and was on the boards of the United Way and the United Family and Children's Society and a member of the Plainfield Country Club.

Bob and Margaret Fort were married June 9, 1933. They had two children, Robert Jr. '56 and Helen Royes Collins; four grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren. A cousin of Margaret's and usher in their wedding, was the late Franklin Ryan Fort '28. A nephew is John F. Fort'63. Bob was active in Princeton affairs and served as treasurer of the Class and chairman of offyear reunions. Bob was an unusually likable person and is remembered as a muchadmired friend by his classmates. The sympathy of the Class is with his children and their families.

The Class of 1928