Robert C. Baxter

Of Arlington Heights

Robert C. Baxter of Arlington Heights, Il died on August 14, 2010. Services will be held with full honors at Arlington National Cemetery. Mr. Baxter was the son of the late Charles E. Baxter and Emma R. (Baxter) Poeter of Rumson NJ.

Mr. Baxter was born in Glen Ridge, NJ, on February 2, 1929, and attended Glen Ridge and Millburn, NJ schools prior to his appointment from New Jersey to the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD in 1947. Following graduation with the Class of 1951, he served a year aboard the destroyer USS Wren (DD-568) re-commissioned in Charleston SC, and then attended flight training in Pensacola, FL, and Corpus Christi, TX, after which he was assigned to Attack Squadron (VA-42) based in Oceana, VA, with service aboard the carriers USS HORNET and BENNINGTON. He further served as an instructor at the air defense naval training center at Dam Neck, VA.

Following his six years of service with the U. S. Navy, Mr. Baxter joined the Electro-chemicals Department of E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. ,Inc., Wilmington DE, and was assigned various marketing positions in Wilmington DE, Detroit, MI, and Chicago, IL, in a variety of sales and technical representative assignments, including major accounts manager, product manager, and sales manager within the department. He retired from DuPont in 1985 while residing in Arlington Heights IL a suburb of Chicago.

After retiring, Mr. Baxter established a small technical, consulting service, serving the electroplating industry in Chicago, and was particularly well known for his technical knowledge of alkaline, cyanide-zinc, electroplating processes, having written and published papers on the subject.

Mr. Baxter was a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association, the Naval Academy Foundation, and the Naval Academy Athletic Association, the Naval League, the American Electroplaters Society, American Foundrymens Society, the Chicago Drug and Chemical Association, the United States Golf Association, and the Chicago District Squash Racquets Association. He supported both the U.S. Olympics and the Illinois Special Olympics programs.

He is survived by his wife, Gloria J. Baxter, of Arlington Heights, IL; and five children of a previous marriage Richard W. Baxter, Bruce E. Baxter, Stephen G. Baxter, Robert C. Baxter, and Rebecca Baxter-Foard and three step-children; Janine G. Smulyan, Charmaine Luber , Richard G. Ginger and 11 grandchildren.

 

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