Robert F. (Bob) Price, born in 1930 in Syracuse, NY, succumbed to heart failure on March 17, 2026, surrounded by his wife and family. Bob had been in hospice care at home in Marshfield Hills, MA since December 2025.
Bob graduated from The Manlius School, a military boarding school, received an engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He spent two years in the Air Force managing $2 billion of government contracts at the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. He held corporate management positions with Mobil Oil, American Can and Western Union, where he led or participated on teams in the creation of the Mobil Travel Guide, the easy-open pull strip on citrus concentrate containers, and Mailgram.
Bob provided general management consulting and strategic planning services for clients of Booz Allen, Harbridge House and the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). He helped numerous firms in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East.
He lived in Tehran in the 1960's advising the National Iranian Oil Company as they transitioned from British to Iranian ownership. Bob loved Iran, its people and cuisine, and maintained several significant friendships from that experience all his life. Later, Bob led the team who created the new corporate strategy for Scandinavian Airlines in Sweden, from which he commuted weekly for many months.
Leisure travel was a joy for him, with many long vacations in California, Key West, Guadeloupe, St. Bart's, Lanzarote (Canary Islands), Crete, Sardinia, France and Italy. He loved having a pied-a-terre in New York City for 17 years. Boating was another pleasure, from a Chris Craft runabout when he was growing up, to a liveaboard catamaran, Godspell, for over 30 years.
Bob loved God, nature and his family passionately. He served as the Treasurer for the Southern New England Presbytery for many years. He was an avid gardener, planting over 200 impatiens all around the house in some years. He adopted a stray cat that appeared on a snowy evening on a rooftop outside his home office, he fed birds, squirrels and chipmunks at home, and a pair of pet seagulls at the marina. He was a friend to and supporter of his children and grandchildren.
Bob was a prolific reader until macular degeneration took that away from him but continued to listen to books on a tablet. He loved showing and reviewing his extensive, significant stamp and autograph collection, begun as a young boy. Bob was an excellent cook and loved dining out.
Bob leaves behind his wife of 46 years, Judy; three stepchildren, Brad, Anne and Susan; grandchildren Julia, Ellora, Claire, Julian and Meredith; and great-grandchildren, Tula, Aidan, Arden and Whitman. His brother, John, pre-deceased him in 2025, and his sister Kathy lives in Brentwood, TN.
We are comforted knowing that Bob is now in God's loving embrace.
Contributions in Bob’s name may be made to Gethsemane United Methodist Church, 1700 Butternut Street, Syracuse, NY 13208, 315-479-7971.