Robert Lindsay (Bob) Nathan, age 89, of Sheffield died Wednesday, September 23, 2015. Family and friends will receive visitors Saturday, September 26, 2015, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church of Sheffield. His funeral service will follow in the church sanctuary with Rev. Jaina Glaze officiating. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery, Sheffield.
Mr. Nathan is survived by his children; Robert Lindsay Nathan, Jr., of Canyon Lake, TX, Lawrence Bruce Nathan of Muscle Shoals, Judith Nathan Cisco (Bill) of Franklin, TN, John Harrington Nathan (Donna) of Birmingham; sister, Elizabeth Nathan Nesbitt of Nashville, TN; six grandchildren, Lawrence Tyler Nathan, Robert Parker Nathan, Nathan Thomas Cisco, Rhea Fonde Nathan, Sarah Winston Nathan and John Harrington Nathan, Jr.
Bob was preceded in death by his wife, Rhea Fonde Nathan, his father, Robert Lindsay Nathan and his mother, Mary Shute Nathan Loree. He grew up in Sheffield, Alabama where he lived in what was formerly known as the “Nathan Home” on Park Boulevard, which was owned at the time by the late Judge Nathan. He graduated from Sheffield High School and enrolled in the United States Army in 1945 where he served as a military guard. He later received an Honorable Discharge and attended the University of Tennessee from which he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering, and where he met his beloved Rhea on a blind date. They were married on June 23, 1951 and eventually settled in Sheffield where they raised their four children while Bob worked at Reynolds Aluminum. In 1968, Bob accepted a job in Houston, Texas with Cameron Iron Works and he moved his family there where they lived until 1976 when they returned to Sheffield and built their home on Lake Wilson. He was the Vice President of Johnson Contractors and a member of the Association of General Contractors (AGC). He served as president of the Alabama AGC in 1994, an elder of the First Presbyterian Church in Sheffield, one of the founders of the Sheffield Little League Association and its’ first president. Bob enjoyed the lake, golf, tennis, fishing, hunting and other outdoor activities.
Pallbearers are Braxton Ashe, Dutch Maxwell, Bill Cisco, Patrick Smith, John Dill, and H.W. “Pony” Baker.
Honorary Pallbearers are Don Ruggles, Bill Roper, Don Armstrong, Karl Bradley, and George Van Sant.
