CONCORD - Robert Lewis Hall, of Concord, died Saturday, April 25 2015 at the Bedford Veterans Hospital in Bedford. Beloved husband of Mary Jane Adriance Hall for forty years. Father (from a previous marriage) of Susan Hall (Reno, NV), Debbie Jenkins (Steamboat Springs, CO), and David Hall (Bayfield, CO); and Step-father to Adrianne Weir-Villatoro (Asheville, NC), William Weir Jr. (Tenafly, NJ), and John C. Weir (Eureka, CA); Brother of Mary Turner (Roswell, NM) and the late Richard Hall (Denver, CO). He was born in Champaign, IL, on April 9, 1923 and was raised in Schenectady, NY, where Bob's father, Russell Hall, was the head of the Engineering Department at Union College. Bob attended Hamilton College (1940-1942). He transferred to University of Michigan before enlisting in the USAAF (March 1943). He served as a weather officer and air traffic controller in North Africa and Europe. Bob mustered out, in 1946, with an honorable discharge, as a First Lieutenant. He returned to UMich to finish degrees in Chemical Engineering and Math (Tau Beta Pi Honorary 1948). Bob worked for General Electric (GE) in color television research before going to grad school at Harvard Business School, where he earned his MBA (1951). He worked for Gates Rubber for 11 years, and built and managed factories in Iowa and then Mexico. He spent five years with Sunstrand Corporation, as an Industrial Manager in the Aviation Division, where he developed and marketed a line of high-speed centrifugal in-line pumps for the petrochemical industry. In 1968, Bob became President of the Gerry Division of Outdoor Sports Industries, Inc. in Denver, CO. In 1972, Bob acquired a small ownership interest in Eastern Mountain Sports, where he designed and bought private label soft-goods for retail. In 1978, Bob started Conimex, Inc., importing down goods and silk from the Far East. In 1990, Bob sold Conimex and retired. Bob loved the outdoors and, in early life, climbed all 48 peaks over 4000' in the Adirondacks. At 14-years-old, Bob spent an entire summer camping in the mountains with a childhood friend. He once rescued his brother, Dick, on a canoe trip, when Dick suffered a ruptured appendix. An avid skier, Bob was also one of earliest volunteer ski patrol members in Colorado, and served as Director of the Denver Division of the National Ski Patrol. When the children were grown, Bob and Mary Jane joined Bicycle Adventure Club, and were soon leading trips in this country and abroad, completing more than 45 bicycle trips together, all over the world. In retirement, Bob volunteered on the Carlisle Recreation Commission, and oversaw the construction of the Banta Davis ball fields. Together, Bob and MJ shared many great winter reunions with friends and family in Hilton Head, SC. We loved those golf courses! Bob Hall was my beloved husband and my best friend. He cared for us, and helped me raise my children, while starting our import company. He took us on ski trips, camping trips, canoeing and biking trips. We sang in the First Parish choir, played golf and bridge together, and read each other's books. In the end, he was my dear little boy. But I loved taking care of him, with the help of the wonderful GRECC Alzheimer's Unit at the Bedford VA. Alzheimer's units are staffed by the closest thing on earth to saints!