Robert Roy Peck
1929 – 2009
PORTLAND — Robert Roy Peck, 80, died in Portland on Tuesday, Sept. 15.
He was born May 25, 1929, in Rockville Center, N.Y., son of Robert and Marion Cummings Peck. He was educated in New York schools and graduated from the College of Forestry at Syracuse University in 1951.
For many years, he was employed by Oxford Paper Co. in Rumford, where he was manager of pulping. For the last 17 years of his career, he worked in engineering with Beloit Corporation, E.C. Jordan and Stone & Webster.
He served two years in the U.S. Army Chemical Corps during which time he was an operating engineer at the Phosphate Development Works, Muscle Shoals, Ala.
Active in TAPPI, he served as chairman of the Alkaline Pulping Committee and on various sub-committees. He authored five technical papers and wrote a textbook on pulping processes for ICS. He was active the Boy Scouts in Maine and Massachusetts, was a former member of the Cosmos Club in Rumford and Kiwanis in Lenox, Mass., a master gardener, and a genealogy enthusiast.
Survivors include his daughters, Mary Wainerdi and Ann Roberson and their spouses; sons, Michael and William and their spouses; eight grandchildren; sister-in-law, Dr. Ann Howard; and a sister, Marian P. Bushala of Toledo, Ohio.
He was predeceased by his wife of 50 years, Patricia Howard Peck; and his son, Marshall Robert Peck.