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Robert DeVries

East Rutherford, New Jersey

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DeVRIES Robert K., of Green Pond, New Jersey died on October 30, 2014 at the age of 74. Bob grew up in East Rutherford, NJ, and graduated from East Rutherford H.S. in 1958. He was an All State running back in 1956 and 1957. Upon graduation, Bob entered the United States Military Academy at West...

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I worked with Bob for about 23 years until I retired. You could not ask for a better boss. He was always considerate and understanding of any workload I had since I worked for another attorney . I will always remember him as he always said reporting for duty if he came in after me but he almost always beat me in. I worked for several men during my working career but never as nice as him. We not only. Worked well together we were also friends. I remember times when he would call me...

I grew up in Rutherford and we knew of the Devries boys. When my older sister needed info for a school paper on West Point in the 1960s, she wrote West Point, I think Bob specifically as a potential contact, to see what info was available, and he and either his brother or a friend took my sister and a friend on a tour of the Point, very nice. Decades later, working at Nabisco, I had a legal issue for a contract and spoke with Bob, asked if he was related in any way to the West Point Devries...