ST. TAMMANY PARISH, LA. 

Obituary for: MACDOUGALL, ROBERT D 

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan. 

Source: E.J. Fielding Funeral Home, Covington, La.

Died Thursday, June 16, 2011

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MACDOUGALL, ROBERT D 
(January 2, 1922 - June 16, 2011)

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Robert Douglas MacDougall passed away on Thursday, June 16, 2011, age 89, of 
heart failure.

He is survived by his wife, Ingrid MacDougall, and two sons, Jerome W. 
MacDougall and his wife Angelle Goudeau MacDougall and James F. MacDougall and 
his wife Joy Castro. He is also survived by three grandchildren, Morgan Douglas 
MacDougall, Natalie Claire MacDougall, and Grey Cullen Boldt Castro. He is also 
survived by his three nieces, Candyce Weber, Sandy O'Rourke, and Moira Whalen.

He was born in McVille, ND in 1922 to Rollo Dixon MacDougall and Nettie Syverton 
MacDougall. After his father's death, his mother and stepfather, Fred Shipman, 
ran a small newspaper, the Leeds News in Leeds ND, where he was a news and 
sports reporter before moving to the Daily News in Moorhead, Minnesota in 1941. 
He volunteered for the U.S Navy in 1942 and served on the carrier escort the 
U.S.S. Prince William in the Pacific Theater. He received an honorable discharge 
in 1946 and, with the help of the G.I. Bill, earned a BA from the University of 
Montana in 1949 and an MA from the University of Minnesota in 1952, both in 
geology.

Douglas worked from 1952 to 1959 as a field and then subsurface geologist for 
Arabian American Oil Co (Aramco), crossing and mapping remote areas of Saudi 
Arabia unexplored by Westerners and developing wildcat wells and other oil 
prospects. 

He married Ingrid Heeman of Berlin, Germany in 1961 and after a year working as 
a consulting geologist and cartographer, joined the U.S. Geological Survey, 
working in Washington, D.C. for eight years. The USGS transferred him to 
Mandeville, LA in 1970 where he lived until his death. 
He was active in little league sports in Mandeville and will be remembered as a 
meticulous scorekeeper of little league baseball games. 
He was a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Royal 
Geographical Society, and Mensa and was an avid genealogist. He loved a good 
joke, a good book, and a good beer. He was a devoted husband and loving father 
and grandfather and will be greatly missed.

In lieu of flowers, the family would prefer donations to the National Military 
Family Association, 2500 North Van Dorn St., Suite 102, Alexandria, VA 22302-
1601.

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