Robert B. Schwartz

Robert B. Schwartz, a longtime resident of Bethesda, MD who spent the major part of his career in management and legal positions with Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat) in Washington, DC, died on December 7, 2024 at 88 years of age. He passed away peacefully among family members at Brighton Gardens of Friendship Heights, where he had resided since 2021.

With Comsat, Schwartz served many years as Secretary of the corporation and Assistant General Counsel for corporate matters as well as some years as Director of Public Information. Before joining Comsat in the mid-1960s he served for a few years as an appellate court attorney for the National Labor Relations Board, based in Washington.

Schwartz received his bachelor's degree from Tufts University in 1957, and after a year of graduate studies at Columbia University he attended Harvard Law School where he received his law degree in 1961.

Bob, as he was affectionately known by his friends, was born on November 23, 1936, in Paterson, New Jersey to Samuel and Bessie Schwartz, along with his older brother Ben.

Bob's wife of 40 years, the former Pushpa Nand of New Delhi, India, passed away in 2003. They had met at Columbia University and were married in New Delhi after Bob completed the active-duty segment of his U.S. Army Reserve commitment in 1962. Bob raised his family in Carderock Springs in Bethesda. His immediate survivors include their son Stephen, their daughter Deborah, Deborah's daughter Karanina, and Pushpa's twin sister Usha Sellers.

His family will forever remember him for his generosity, sense of humility, and strong moral compass. He had a passion for classical music and a love of the outdoors.

The family's funeral arrangements were private.