Robert William Lees ’41

Bob died April 29, 2004, after a long illness.

A native of Haddon Heights, N.J., he came to Princeton from Moorestown [N.J.] Friends School and majored in history. He joined Terrace Club. During World War II, Bob entered the Army Field Artillery and spent 32 months in the European theater, serving first with the 85th Division in Italy, and then with the 34th and 88th divisions in occupation duty in the Trieste area. He received a field commission and was awarded the Bronze Star with an Oak Leaf Cluster.

Bob was discharged from the Army in 1946 and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1948. He practiced labor law in Philadelphia in his own firm until retirement.

In 1949, Bob married Patricia Dilworth and they had two children, a daughter, Aubrey, now a lawyer in New York City, and a son, R. Dilworth Lees, now deceased. Patricia died after a protracted illness.

At a Moorestown Friends School reunion, Bob met and subsequently married Elizabeth Wood Lees, who survives him, as do his stepchildren, Bonnie Wood and James A.E. Wood Jr.

The Class of 1941