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View a eulogy for Robert Ferrell Wells, USMA '62, who passed away on December 29, 2021.

Robert Ferrell Wells

West Point, 1962

Be Thou At Peace

Posted by kr on January 17, 2022:

Cut & pasted from the 17 Jan 22 Army Rugby Newsletter:

Bill Kosco, '62, informed us earlier this week that his classmate and teammate, Bob Wells, passed away on December 29, 2021. Bob served with distinction in the US Air Force, to include deploying to Vietnam in 1965-1966. He was also assigned to the Pentagon as a staff architect and advanced technology construction program manager from 1973-1975. His PhD in Civil and Nuclear Engineering from Virginia Tech earned high acclaim from the Atomic Energy Commission and other government agencies for its innovative systems thinking and modeling.

Stints at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory and the Defense Nuclear Agency in Albuquerque, New Mexico garnered him a Federal Executive Boards leadership award and numerous outstanding achievement honors. During this timeframe, he also mentored students as an adjunct professor in UNM's School of Architecture and Community & Regional Planning.

Bob was preceded in death by his first wife, Pilar, and his younger sister, Katherine, and is survived by his second wife, Caroline Ann Wells; his daughter, Tamara, and her husband, Joseph Banar, of Santa Fe; his son, Robin Marrin Wells, and his wife, Kate Fitzgerald, of Grand Marais, MN, and their daughters, Bronwyn and Aria; and many nieces, nephews and lifelong friends.

Bob's remains will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery at a later date in a private family service. The family suggests that in lieu of flowers, memorial donations be sent to the Los Alamos Historical Society, Fuller Lodge Art Center or Rotary Club International.

 
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