Mr. Robert B. McKellar, 90, of Carnoustie Court, Aiken, died Tuesday, July 8, 2003 at his residence.
A native of Louisville, Ky., Mr. McKellar graduated from Yale University in 1936. He served in the Naval Reserve during World War II and attained the rank of lieutenant commander. In 1952, he came to Aiken as a chemical engineer working for E.I. DuPont as an area supervisor in Health Physics. Mr. McKellar was a former vestry man and member of the choir at St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church. He was a founding board member of Mead Hall School, and a past chairman of the Fermata Club Board. Since his retirement in 1978, he has enjoyed tennis, golf, sailing, flying and traveling.
Surviving Mr. McKellar are his loving wife, Beatrice Mary Wright McKellar; his sister, Lucia M. Maloney, Chappaqua, N.Y.; two sons, Dr. Robert Wright McKellar and his wife Ann Thomas McKellar, Augusta, Kenneth Dunstan McKellar and his wife, Barbara Johnson McKellar, Chapin; his daughter, Bree McKellar Saum, Aiken; eight grandchildren, Tadd W. McKellar, S. Elizabeth Kesser, Mark M. Kesser, William J. McKellar, Jamie G. Greer, MacKenzie R.J. McKellar, Laura S. Chisholm, Stuart L. Saum; one great-grandchild, Anna Grace Greer; and several nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church Organ Fund, 221 Pendleton St., Aiken, SC 29801, or to St. Joseph Hospice, 681 Silver Bluff Road, Aiken, SC 29803.
Funeral services will be held at St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church. Rev. Leon Mozeliak will officiate.
Interment will follow in the church cemetery with a reception to be held in the Stevenson-McClelland building following the services.
Pallbearers will be his grandsons.
Shellhouse Funeral Home, Inc., 924 Hayne Avenue, Aiken.
Augusta Chronicle, The (GA) - Friday, July 11, 2003
A native of Louisville, Ky., Mr. McKellar graduated from Yale University in 1936. He served in the Naval Reserve during World War II and attained the rank of lieutenant commander. In 1952, he came to Aiken as a chemical engineer working for E.I. DuPont as an area supervisor in Health Physics. Mr. McKellar was a former vestry man and member of the choir at St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church. He was a founding board member of Mead Hall School, and a past chairman of the Fermata Club Board. Since his retirement in 1978, he has enjoyed tennis, golf, sailing, flying and traveling.
Surviving Mr. McKellar are his loving wife, Beatrice Mary Wright McKellar; his sister, Lucia M. Maloney, Chappaqua, N.Y.; two sons, Dr. Robert Wright McKellar and his wife Ann Thomas McKellar, Augusta, Kenneth Dunstan McKellar and his wife, Barbara Johnson McKellar, Chapin; his daughter, Bree McKellar Saum, Aiken; eight grandchildren, Tadd W. McKellar, S. Elizabeth Kesser, Mark M. Kesser, William J. McKellar, Jamie G. Greer, MacKenzie R.J. McKellar, Laura S. Chisholm, Stuart L. Saum; one great-grandchild, Anna Grace Greer; and several nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church Organ Fund, 221 Pendleton St., Aiken, SC 29801, or to St. Joseph Hospice, 681 Silver Bluff Road, Aiken, SC 29803.
Funeral services will be held at St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church. Rev. Leon Mozeliak will officiate.
Interment will follow in the church cemetery with a reception to be held in the Stevenson-McClelland building following the services.
Pallbearers will be his grandsons.
Shellhouse Funeral Home, Inc., 924 Hayne Avenue, Aiken.
Augusta Chronicle, The (GA) - Friday, July 11, 2003
Mr. Robert B. McKellar, 90, of Carnoustie Court, Aiken, died Tuesday, July 8, 2003 at his residence.
A native of Louisville, Ky., Mr. McKellar graduated from Yale University in 1936. He served in the Naval Reserve during World War II and attained the rank of lieutenant commander. In 1952, he came to Aiken as a chemical engineer working for E.I. DuPont as an area supervisor in Health Physics. Mr. McKellar was a former vestry man and member of the choir at St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church. He was a founding board member of Mead Hall School, and a past chairman of the Fermata Club Board. Since his retirement in 1978, he has enjoyed tennis, golf, sailing, flying and traveling.
Surviving Mr. McKellar are his loving wife, Beatrice Mary Wright McKellar; his sister, Lucia M. Maloney, Chappaqua, N.Y.; two sons, Dr. Robert Wright McKellar and his wife Ann Thomas McKellar, Augusta, Kenneth Dunstan McKellar and his wife, Barbara Johnson McKellar, Chapin; his daughter, Bree McKellar Saum, Aiken; eight grandchildren, Tadd W. McKellar, S. Elizabeth Kesser, Mark M. Kesser, William J. McKellar, Jamie G. Greer, MacKenzie R.J. McKellar, Laura S. Chisholm, Stuart L. Saum; one great-grandchild, Anna Grace Greer; and several nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church Organ Fund, 221 Pendleton St., Aiken, SC 29801, or to St. Joseph Hospice, 681 Silver Bluff Road, Aiken, SC 29803.
Funeral services will be held at St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church. Rev. Leon Mozeliak will officiate.
Interment will follow in the church cemetery with a reception to be held in the Stevenson-McClelland building following the services.
Pallbearers will be his grandsons.
Shellhouse Funeral Home, Inc., 924 Hayne Avenue, Aiken.
Augusta Chronicle, The (GA) - Friday, July 11, 2003
A native of Louisville, Ky., Mr. McKellar graduated from Yale University in 1936. He served in the Naval Reserve during World War II and attained the rank of lieutenant commander. In 1952, he came to Aiken as a chemical engineer working for E.I. DuPont as an area supervisor in Health Physics. Mr. McKellar was a former vestry man and member of the choir at St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church. He was a founding board member of Mead Hall School, and a past chairman of the Fermata Club Board. Since his retirement in 1978, he has enjoyed tennis, golf, sailing, flying and traveling.
Surviving Mr. McKellar are his loving wife, Beatrice Mary Wright McKellar; his sister, Lucia M. Maloney, Chappaqua, N.Y.; two sons, Dr. Robert Wright McKellar and his wife Ann Thomas McKellar, Augusta, Kenneth Dunstan McKellar and his wife, Barbara Johnson McKellar, Chapin; his daughter, Bree McKellar Saum, Aiken; eight grandchildren, Tadd W. McKellar, S. Elizabeth Kesser, Mark M. Kesser, William J. McKellar, Jamie G. Greer, MacKenzie R.J. McKellar, Laura S. Chisholm, Stuart L. Saum; one great-grandchild, Anna Grace Greer; and several nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church Organ Fund, 221 Pendleton St., Aiken, SC 29801, or to St. Joseph Hospice, 681 Silver Bluff Road, Aiken, SC 29803.
Funeral services will be held at St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church. Rev. Leon Mozeliak will officiate.
Interment will follow in the church cemetery with a reception to be held in the Stevenson-McClelland building following the services.
Pallbearers will be his grandsons.
Shellhouse Funeral Home, Inc., 924 Hayne Avenue, Aiken.
Augusta Chronicle, The (GA) - Friday, July 11, 2003
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