Robert F. Clary Jr. ’37

Robert Clary died Feb. 15, 2014.

A descendant of early Montana settlers, Bob grew up ranching. He came to Princeton from Phillips Exeter Academy. At Princeton, he won three letters on the lightweight crew and was in ROTC. After earning his bachelor’s degree in politics, Bob graduated from Harvard Law School and went into practice in Missoula, Mont.

In 1942 he married Helen “Tiss” Holter and joined the Army. He served in the Pacific theater and was mustered out as a captain.

Bob returned to Montana and law practice in Great Falls, where he and Tiss began a family and Bob became deeply involved in Great Falls public affairs. He served as city attorney in the 1950s and at varying times was president of the Rotary, chairman of the Great Falls School District Board of Trustees, and a member of the local Red Cross board.

Bob always enjoyed the outdoors, including fishing and hunting and, later in life, golf. For more than 30 years he teamed with the Helena Wilderness Riders for eight-day expeditions into the Bob Marshall Wilderness.

Tiss died in 1972. Bob is survived by four of his children, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren, to whom the class extends its sympathy.