Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Robert L. Wilson

Sept. 19, 1924 - Feb. 20, 1994

 

South Bend Tribune 2/21/1994

SOUTH BEND - Robert L. Wilson, 69, of 2522 Woodmont Drive, died at 2:19 a.m. Sunday in Memorial Hospital of natural causes. Mr. Wilson was employed by Studebaker Corp. in the engineering department from 1946 to 1966 and retired in 1989 from Motor Vehicles Manufacturers Association, Detroit. He was born Sept. 19, 1924, in South Bend.

 

On Aug. 16, 1945, in San Marcus, Texas, he married Virginia Anne Rudduck. She survives with a daughter, Kathleen Wilson of South Bend; a son, Wayne D. of Ann Arbor; three grandchildren; and a sister, Jean McLaughlin of San Bernardino, Calif. He was a veteran of World War II and was a member of Grace United Methodist Church, Masonic Lodge 675, American Legion Post 303, American Automobile Manufacturers Association, was a former substitute teacher for the South Bend Community School Corp., and participated in developing the first draft of the U.S. Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.

 

Services will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday in Forest G. Hay Funeral Home, 435 S. Ironwood Drive. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery. There will be no visitation. Memorial contributions may be made to American Cancer Society.