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Robert Williamson “Bob” Gillespie, III was born in Dallas on May 20, 1939. He passed away on Dec. 11, 2020 in Austin.
He was the eldest son of Robert Williamson Gillespie, Jr. and Francis Joe Harrison Gillespie. Bob’s father grew up in Alleyton on the family place, but Bob spent all of his primary and secondary school years in a small town in north Texas called Whitesboro.
Bob then attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire for three years before joining the military in 1961.
He proudly served four years in the Air Force and then returned to finish college at Texas A & M where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Math and Physics and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science.