PIATT, Robert Rundell

The Sun (Wickenburg, Arizona) Friday, March 20, 1959, p. 1 Services Tuesday For Robert Piatt Rev. D. F. O'Sullivan, pastor of St. Anthony's Catholic Church, conducted rites in that church at 9 a.m. Tuesday for Robert R. Piatt who died in Community Hospital at 7 a.m. last Friday of a heart attack. He had been a patient in the hospital for nine days. Burial was in Wickenburg Cemetery. Mr. Piatt, a mining engineer and geologist, and Mrs. Piatt resided at Sylvan Village. They came here three years ago from Long Beach, Calif., when Mr. Piatt became affiliated with Mohave Mining & Milling Co. He was born at Covington, Ky., March 13, 1897,and his death occurred on his birthday. During World War II Mr. Piatt worked for the U.S. State Department expediting the production of mica for the war effort in Madagascar. He also spent many years as a geologist in Central and South America and in South Africa. Surviving are the widow; one sister, Mrs. W. R. Yeager, Sr., of Wichita, Kan.; and two brothers, Ted Piatt of Pomona, Calif. and Joe Piatt who is in Arabia.