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Raymond Willis Cobb, 97
Retired actuary made his way to the Cape at early age
Raymond Willis Cobb, 97, of Wellfleet and Princeton, N.J., died Aug. 8, at Pleasant Bay Nursing Home in Brewster.
Mr. Cobb was born July 10, 1910, in Rutland, Vt. As a boy, he took the train from Bennington, Vt., where he grew up, to Boston, where he stayed at the Parker House overnight, then took a boat to Provincetown, then a horse and buggy to the family’s summer cottage at Long Nook in Truro.
After graduating from the University of Vermont during the Depression with a degree in civil engineering, he took an actuarial job with Prudential Life Insurance Company in Newark, N.J. He stayed with the company, except for WW II service in the Navy Supply Corps, until his retirement in 1975 as a senior vice president.
In 1937 he married Helen Elizabeth Baker of Concord, N.H., and with her raised four children in, variously, New Jersey, Virginia, Minnesota, Illinois and Massachusetts. The couple sponsored several American Field Service students who remain part of the family.
In his early retirement years he served in the Executive Service Corps in Indonesia, Thailand and Panama. At home, he divided his time between winters in Princeton and summers in Wellfleet, where he grew a large vegetable garden. In 1995 he married Harmony Buell Cooper of Brewster. She added flowers to the garden and they enjoyed many rounds of oysters with friends and relatives.
Raymond is survived by a sister, three sons, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, and by two stepsons and two stepdaughters and their families. His daughter and both wives predeceased him.
A memorial service will be held at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29 at the First Congregational Church of Wellfleet. Arrangements are by Nickerson Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that remembrances be made in Mr. Cobb’s name to the University of Vermont, 411 Main St., Burlington, VT 05401.
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Sep 20th, 2007