Robert Layer

Robert Layer

Robert Layer Obituary

Obituary published on Legacy.com by Ellinger-Kunz Funeral Home & Springfield Crematory on Dec. 29, 2020.
Robert Layer's passing at the age of 99 on Sunday, December 20, 2020 has been publicly announced.

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Eduardo Sáenz-Rovner

December 26, 2022

I took Development Economics from professor Layer in the 1970s. I talked to him several times during my years at SIU. I remember him as a very decent and friendly person. To his daughters (one of them was my classmate in Introduction to Money and Banking) my sympathies.

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Ellinger-Kunz Funeral Home & Springfield Crematory

530 North Fifth Street, Springfield, IL 62702

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