Robert Grant - Class of 1947
Submitted by Fran Olson Gustafson 1965 <fgustafson917@gmail.com>
on 28/Dec/2022
Robert Nathan Grant, born March 7, l930
in Newburgh, NY, devoted husband of 70 years to Barbara Weil
Grant and loving father to Susan Grant and Nory LeBrun,
Elizabeth Ellerton (Lucy), and Nancy Grant and Steven Gray
(Hannah and Caroline), passed away on December 25, 2022
after a courageous battle with Alzheimer's disease. Bob grew
up in Newburgh, NY where his father was the Corporation
Counsel for the city. He graduated from Newburgh Free
Academy, where he participated in ROTC, was an Eagle Scout,
and attended the 1947 World Jamboree of Peace, held in
Moisson, France. Bob graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale
University in 1951 and served as a First Lieutenant in the
USAF during the Korean War, where he was stationed in
Tachikawa, Japan. After graduating from Harvard Law School
in 1956, Bob joined Sonnenschein Carlin Nathan &
Rosenthal and practiced law there for the next 63 years
until his retirement in 2019.
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