Dorr, Robert E. (died 1980)

DORR, BOGH, FRANKLIN, CLIFF

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall
Date: 5/4/2006 at 06:56:07

Services will be conducted at 10 a.m. tomorrow in Martha-Mary Chapel, Wayside Inn road, Sudbury, for Robert E. Dorr, 64, of Lincoln, area director of the Northeast Region of the Boy Scouts of America. He died Friday in his home after a long illness.

Born in LeMars, Iowa, Mr. Dorr started his career in scouting in 1943 in the Prairie Gold Area Council, Fort Dodge, Iowa.

He served as a scout executive for the Northeast Iowa Council in Dubuque 1949-55 and for the Southwest Iowa Council at Council Bluffs 1955-65.

Mr. Dorr also served as deputy scout executive of the Mid-America Council until he joined the national staff of the Boy Scouts of America in 1970 as an assistant regional executive of Region 1 in New England.

In 1972 he became manager of the Boypower Service, Field Operations at the national headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J. He held that position until July 1973 when he returned to New England as area director.

Mr. Dorr played a major role in the merger of the Southwest Iowa Council and the Covered Wagon Council of Omaha, Neb. in 1965.

He leaves his wife, Mildred J. (Bogh); a son, James P. Dorr of Evanston, Ill.; a brother, Eugene L. Dorr and a sister, Dorothy Franklin, both of Arizona; his mother, Jessie Ciff of Iowa, and a granddaugther.

Burial will be in LeMars, Iowa.

-Boston Globe, December 22, 1980