| ROBERT J. CHRISTIE IV |
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Mr. Robert J. Christie IV, 73, of 234 South 16th, died at 12:30 a.m. Sunday (March 16, 2003) in his home. Born August 24, 1929 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Bob was the son of Robert J. and Lillian E. Beatty Christie III. He married Nancy P. Swearingen on January 2, 1951 in Quincy. She died July 5, 2001. Bob was a Past President of the Quincy Exchange Club and the Charter President of the Quincy Barbershop Chorus and a founder of the Great River Jazz Society. He was also a past chairman of the Fathers and Friends Club at Christian Brothers High School and a former member of the Quincy Jaycees and the Ambassador's of Harmony Barbershop Chorus in St. Charles, Missouri. Bob took a special interest in preserving historical sites and taught Historic Preservation and Architecture in the Quincy University Elderhostel Program. He was the Charter President of Quincy Preserves and a Charter member and Board member of the Friends of the Castle. He was appointed by Governor Jim Edgar to the Illinois Historical Sites and Preservation Council. Bob taught school in Ursa and later was a salesman for General Foods and manager of Hertz Rental Cars in Quincy. He later owned and operated Graceland Cemetery. For the past 30 years he has owned and operated Robert Christie Designs where he was a Historical Preservation and Interior Design Consultant working on many project throughout the Midwest including the Abraham Lincoln Home and Dana Thomas House in Springfield, the Illinois State Supreme Court Building, the Davis House in Bloomington, the Governor's Mansion in Iowa, the Mark Twain Boyhood Home in Hannibal and currently with the preservation of the Palmyra, Missouri Jail and as a coordinator of the Civil War Re-enactment of the Palmyra massacre. He distinguished his career by successfully nominating for inclusion to the National Register of Historic Places many historical sites in the Midwest. Surviving is a son, Robert J. "Rob" Christie V and his wife Deanna of Wheaton; two daughters, Gretchen A. McGee and her husband Michael and Melissa P. Walton and her husband Jay both of Quincy; six grandchildren, Ryan Christie and his wife Rebecca of Washington, D.C., Sarah Christie of Chicago and Nicholas Christie of Wheaton, Laura Gramke and her husband Stephen of Quincy, Molly McGee of Columbia, MO. and Sam Walton of Quincy; a nephew, Richard U. E. Christie of Quincy; a niece, Diana Herman and her husband Larry of Quincy; and several great nieces and a great nephew. Mr. Christie was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; a son, Walter "Huck" Christie; and a brother, Richard U. Christie. Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 10:30 in Zehender Robinson Stormer Cookson Funeral Home by the Rev. James Wheeler. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be Tuesday evening from 4:00 to 7:00 and Wednesday until the time of services at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Great River Jazz Society or the Blessing Hospital Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit. |