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Note: Obituary:
Robert Wickham Carr, 80, of 20 Redfield Parkway, well-known Batavia merchant and chairman of the board of C.L. Carr Co., Inc., died at 11 a.m. Wednesday (April 17, 1985) at his home.
Mr. Carr in his long tenure as a retailer and sucessor to his father as head of the Batavia department store firm was also prominent in various community activities. He had been in failing health for several months.
Mr. Carr was born Feb. 17, 1905, in Knoxville, Pa., a son of Claude L. and Harriett Wickham Carr. His father founded the Batavia retail operation. Robert Carr graduated in 1927 with a degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. Carr was a member and elder of the First Presbyterian Church, the Batavia Rotary Club and the Stafford Country Club. He was a former president of the YMCA, a director of the New York State Retail Merchants Association and a former director of Liberty National Bank. Mr. Carr was an avid world traveler.
Surviving are his wife, Lucille Hamilton Carr; a son, Stephen H. of Batavia; a daughter, Mrs. Julian (Patricia) Atwater of Rochester; two sisters, Mrs. David (Christine) Minor and Mrs. John (Virginia) Mumford, both of Batavia; six grandchildren, Stephen and John Atwater, Benjamin and Theodore Carr, Sarah Atwater. His son, Stephen, is president of the Carr corporation.
Mr. Carr was a brother of the late J. Gordon Carr, nationally known architect, who designed the modernization and expansion of the Carr store at 101 Main St.
...Interment will be at Grand View Cemetery.
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