Obituaries:  Robert James Newson, Jr., Sabine Parish       N-250
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 29, 1984
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Robert James Newson, Jr.

  Services for Mr. Robert James Newson Jr., 44, of Palo Alto,
Calif., were held Tuesday morning, March 27, in Palo Alto.

  Mr. Newson died Friday morning, March 23, 1984, in Palo Alto,
after a short illness. He was born in Shreveport, La., attended
grade school in Pleasant Hill, La., and graduated from Fair Park
High School in Shreveport in 1956. He graduated from the U. S.
Air Force Academy in 1960, and served as a pilot in the U. S. Air
Force. He received a Masters of Business Degree from Stanford
University in 1970. He was a member of the California Board of
Realtors, the Wings Club, and the Stanford Alumni.

  He was preceded in death by his mother, Miriam Lafitte Edwards
of Pleasant Hill, La., and his father, Robert J. Newson, Sr., of
Shreveport.

  He is survived by two sons, Eric, and Christian; two sisters,
Lenore Muncie of Golden Beach, Fla. Bonnie E. Hight of Haughton,
La.; three brothers, James H. Edwards, Bruce L. Edwards of
Shreveport, Glenn K. Edwards, currently stationed with the U. S.
Navy at Guatamana Bay in Cuba; and several nieces and nephews.

  The family requests, in lieu of flowers, that donations be made
to the American Cancer Society.