Robert D. Dexheimer Jr. was born September 3,1915, in Pierre, South
Dakota, the son of a United Methodist preacher, Robert D. Dexheimer Sr.
He received his diploma from Manual High School in Denver, Colorado,
in 1933. He was the second of 3 generations to graduate from North
Central College in Naperville, Illinois, in 1942.
Bob was a chemist who began his career with DuPont in Joliet, Illinois, and finished with Henkel in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1978. He was an authority on adhesives who wrote articles for several technical publications. He loved to play tennis and golf. For many years he was the tennis coach at North Central College. In his early retirement years he recorded books for the blind.
He died February 17, 2000, in Sun City, Arizona. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Jacqueline, 3 sons and daughters-in-law, 1 daughter and son-in- law, and 8 grandchildren, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Donald Dexheimer Ill of Kokomo, Indiana, Mr. & Mrs. Edward Michael Dexheimer of Grosse Isle, Michigan, Mr. & Mrs. John Patrick Dexheimer of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Hillyard of Waldheim, Louisiana.
May he rest in peace.
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