Robert Newell Oxford Jr. ’54

Robert Newell Oxford Jr. ’54 passed away on December 7, 2019, at the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton, New Hampshire. Bob grew up in Winchester, Massachusetts, and attended Hebron Academy. At Dartmouth he was a member of Chi Phi, the rifle team, and the Air Force ROTC. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering. Bob served as a lieutenant in the Army as an instructor in the ordinance school at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. While serving in the military Bob met and married Allison Lea Bailey of Worcester, Massachusetts. Upon leaving the service, Bob lived in Wayland, Massachusetts, and worked at Raytheon as an administrator negotiating government contracts. In 1969 Bob moved to Milford, New Hampshire. After retiring from Raytheon in 1974 Bob joined his wife in ownership of Impressions Pottery by Oxford, making wildflower pottery known as Kezar Lake Handcrafts. Bob enjoyed many years at the family camp on Rattlesnake Island on Kezar Lake in Lovell, Maine, where he fished in his Boston Whaler and Old Town canoe. After the passing of Allison in 1990, and retirement from the pottery business in 2000, he moved to Barnstead, New Hampshire. In 2011 Bob moved to Florida to live with daughter Allison. In 2015, due to failing health, he moved back to New Hampshire and lived with his son Robert and daughter-in-law Jill, with whom he traveled to various national parks. Bob is survived by children Robert, Douglas, and Allison.