Robert H. "Bob, Skeet" LeMond

1937 - 2010

Robert Hughston LeMond, FAIA, devoted husband, honored father, gifted architect, marvelous human being, artist, raconteur and always concerned with family, friends, integrity, politics, taxes and personal hygiene, passed away Saturday, May 1, 2010.
Service: Service of thanksgiving will be at 5:30 p.m. Friday at St. Stephen Presbyterian Church, 2700 McPherson Ave., Fort Worth. Following the worship service, you are invited to join the LeMond family in the Parish Hall.
Memorials: Should friends desire, memorial contributions may be sent to St. Stephen Presbyterian Church, 2700 McPherson Ave., Fort Worth, Texas 76109; Texas Architectural Foundation, 816 Congress Ave. #970, Austin, Texas 78701; or Texas Tech Foundation, College of Architecture, Re: Memorial for Robert LeMond, Box 42091, Lubbock, Texas 79409.
He was born June 26, 1937, in Amarillo, the only child of the late Mary Alice Hart-Hughston LeMond and Ralph Alexander LeMond. He moved to Fort Worth in January 1950 and graduated from Robert Lee Paschal High School in 1955.
Bob was a 1960 graduate of Texas Tech University with a bachelor's degree in architectural design and a graduate student in urban design at the University of Heidelberg. He was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army after serving with the top secret, worldwide Advanced Weapons Command in Pirmasens, West Germany. According to Bob, he knew "a bunch of secret stuff" but couldn't share it without creating a lot of missing persons.
Returning to Fort Worth, Bob met and married the love of his life, Sharon Diane Hoffa, daughter of Ruth and James Hoffa of New Orleans.
As a professional architect, Bob worked with Fort Worth firms Wyatt C. Hedrick, Hedrick and Stanley, Parker-Croston, Albert S. Komatsu and Associates, and Lawrence D. White Associates before establishing his award-winning firm, LeMond Associates Architects, in 1975. He designed buildings throughout Texas, several other states and Iceland.
Bob was the 1993 recipient of the Llewelyn W. Pitts Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the Texas Society of Architects, for a lifetime of exemplary performance as an architect and for dedicated service to the profession of architecture.
He was named the Texas Society of Architects' most valuable member in 1982 and a Distinguished Alumnus of Texas Tech University, College of Architecture, in 1985. Bob served as the president of the Texas Society of Architects, president of the Fort Worth Chapter of American Institute of Architects and president of the Texas Tech University Architecture Alumni Association.
He was elected to the College of Fellows of the AIA and was a founder of both the American Architectural Foundation and the American Society of Architectural Perspectivists.
A three-term member of the AIA board of directors and the AIA Jury of Fellows, Bob was also a member and chairman of the AIA's Resolutions Committee and the long-time chairman of the TSA's Insurance Trust.
Bob also held membership at the American Institute of Architects, Texas Society of Architects, Urban Land Institute, Texas Tech Architectural Alumni Association, Texas Architectural Foundation, the Rotary Club of Fort Worth and Advanced Weapons Alumni, and was also an elder, deacon and teacher at St. Stephen Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth.
Bob loved to laugh, joke, draw and paint, and his artistic talent was known to everyone who received the family's annual Christmas cards.
To quote a longtime friend, "Some lives, like Skeet's, are like a song. Each note rare and precious. As well put together and beautiful as the rainbow in symphony. Many were lucky to have heard the music."
Survivors: His lifelong love and wife, Sharon; son, Del Elliott of Stowe, Vt.; daughter, Leslie and her husband, David Languell, of Plano (expecting their first daughter, Samantha Ruth); many friends; and colleagues.