Mr. Ichord was born in Big Piney, Pulaski County, Missouri and was graduated from Southwest Missouri State College, Springfield, Missouri, where he received a BCS degree and received an LLB degree from City College of Law, St. Louis, Missouri. He was admitted to the Missouri Bar in 1939.
He joined the Shell Oil Company at age 19, while still a college student in St. Louis and moved with them to New York City in 1941 where he served in many facets of Consultant and Executive Management Planning Policy and Organization. After 41 years of service he retired in January 1972. At that time he was Senior Consultant of Director’s Projects for Shell Oil and Shell Chemical Companies.
Mr. Ichord was a former active member of the Town Club, Scarsdale Golf Club, Volunteer Fireman at the Crossways Fire Station, IR Representative for the Scarsdale Boy Scouts, and assisted for a number of years with the boys recreational sports program in both basketball and baseball and was a constant supporter of the football teams in the Scarsdale Elementary and Junior High Schools.
He has been a resident of Scarsdale since 1946 when he and his wife Lura, moved from New York City and he served in a number of capacities for the Scarsdale Community Baptist Church, including Board of Deacons, Auditing Committee, Executive Office of the Men’s Club as well as speaker for the Adult Forum, The Men’s Club and on Laymen’s Sunday. He was a winner of the Dale Carnegie Award in Public Speaking and served in this capacity on many occasions for Shell.
He is survived by his wife, the former Lura Laidlaw, formerly of St. Louis, Missouri, and their three children, Robert F. Ichord Junior of Washington D.C., a daughter Betty (Mrs. Thomas P. Barne) of St. Louis and J. William Ichord, a 3rd year law student at Washington University in St. Louis. Also surviving are his mother, Mrs. Emma Hicks, of Waynesville, Missouri, a sister Mrs. Ina Siering of Scottsdale, Arizone, and a brother, Rev. C.C. Setser, also of Scottsdale, Arizona.
Interment will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery Lucas Hunt Road, St. Louis, Missouri after a funeral service in the Chapel of the Derhmann-Harral Funeral Home on Saturday, September 16 at 2:00 p.m.
A memorial service will be held at a later date at the Scarsdale Community Baptist Church by his wife, Lura and his mother.
We loved Robert so much and he loved us all too. Jesus loved him too and prepared him a place in heaven. Jesus called him out of this world where he had suffered so much to a place where all is peace and rest and where there will be no pain and death. He has paid the debt. We all must pay sooner or later.
He wouldn’t want to come back here, but he led the way for us to follow and he is beckoning for us to come to him. We will all meet again some day.
By his mother,
Emma Page Hicks
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