Robert Campbell Watson Jr. ’59

Robert Campbell Watson Jr. ’59 died on April 11. He entered Dartmouth from Radnor (Pennsylvania) High School, majored in history and was a member of Delta Tau Delta and Dragon. He participated in Navy ROTC and was commissioned upon graduation. Following graduation he married Ann Killgore, the sister of a Dartmouth classmate and fraternity brother. In 1962, after serving in the Navy, Robert joined IBM and worked for that company in sales for about 15 years out of offices in northern New Jersey, Mexico and San Francisco. A sense of restlessness, which had begun a number of years earlier, led him to leave IBM in 1977. He and Ann, with their two sons, moved to Hanover, where he purchased Lou’s Restaurant from founder Lou Brisette. Robert owned and operated the restaurant until 1993. Ann, who had established a therapy practice in the Hanover area, died in 1988. After Ann’s death and the sale of Lou’s Restaurant five years later, Robert continued to follow a varied path, which included two marriages and divorces and the ownership of a general store in Walpole, New Hampshire. He leaves sons Robert ’84 and Duncan and three grandchildren.