Robert J. Estes of Prince Frederick, MD died January 17, 2009. Born April 19, 1922 in Alexandria Bay, NY the son of the late Edward Howard and Lucille Vera Truesdell Estes.

Mr. Estes was a WW II Army Air Corps veteran serving in the North Pacfic. He attended and graduated from the State University of New York at Canton in 1948 and Syracuse University in 1954. He was married to the late Clela Gladys Whitmore on April 4, 1953 at the First Methodist Church in Canton, NY.

Mr. Estes was employed as an engineer with Jones and Laughlin Steel in Star Lake, NY, the Boeing Company in Seattle, WA and retired from the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Campus. He was a menber of the Reformed Church of Alexandria Bay, NY, Presbyterian churches in various cities and the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He most recently attended Grace Brethren Church of Calvert County.

Surviving are a daughter Patricia S. Estes and her husband Carl Boswell of Oro Valley, AZ., sons Robert H. Estes and his wife Barbara of Prince Frederick, MD and Edward J. Estes and his wife Jane of Salisbury, MD. Grandchildren Robert "Bert" Estes of Prince Frederick, MD, Renee L. and Cathleen M. Estes of Salisbury, MD.

Arrangements provided by Rausch Funeral Home.