{"id":1120,"date":"2025-11-25T17:07:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/phisociety\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:52:28","slug":"remembering-robert-paul-compton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/phisociety\/2025\/11\/25\/remembering-robert-paul-compton\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Robert Paul Compton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong>Robert Paul Compton (<abbr title=\"College of Arts &amp; Sciences\">Col<\/abbr> <span class=\"visually-hidden\">class of <\/span>&#8217;77)<\/strong> of Kirkwood, Missouri, passed away on Monday, June 30, 2025. He was born on July, 17, 1955, in St. Louis to the late Robert Virgil and Lorine (Holdenreid) Compton. Along with his wife of nearly 45 years, Catherine \u201cKatie\u201d (Chamberlin), Paul is survived by his three children, Mary Compton, Wheeler Compton (Lauren) and Susie Underland (Nathaniel); and four grandchildren, Wheeler Jr. and Lottie Compton and Katie and Ida Underland.<\/p>\n<div>Paul graduated from Saint Louis Country Day School and the University of Virginia, where he was a proud and well liked brother of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. He spent a long career as a financial advisor, concluding on the FOR Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors.<\/div>\n<p>Paul served as the former treasurer and board member for the Eugene Field House Foundation. He also volunteered with the Boy Scouts of America for 25 years.<\/p>\n<div>As an active member of Covenant Presbyterian Church, he was a dedicated member of the Men\u2019s Ministry, serving as an usher and testing breakfast casserole recipes on the willing participants in the Men\u2019s Breakfast Group.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Chapter Grand<\/h2>\n<p><em>\u201cIn Coelo Quies Est\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Below are the Phis passing on to the Chapter Grand during 2025. If you wish to share your own memories or photos of any Phis that passed to the Chapter Grand, please send them to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:aig@virginia.edu\">aig@virginia.edu<\/a>\u00a0and we will post them to the Phi Society\u2019s Chapter Grand webpage.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James Richard \u201cJ.R.\u201d Getches \u201984<\/li>\n<li>Claude H. Crockett, Jr., MD \u201957<\/li>\n<li>David M. Pinkham \u201952<\/li>\n<li>G. Elliott Cobb, Jr. \u201960<\/li>\n<li>Robert P. Compton \u201977<\/li>\n<li>William H. 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Along with his wife of nearly 45 years, Catherine \u201cKatie\u201d (Chamberlin), Paul is survived by his three children, Mary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Remembering Robert Paul Compton - Virginia Beta &amp; Phi Society<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/phisociety\/2025\/11\/25\/remembering-robert-paul-compton\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Remembering Robert Paul Compton - Virginia Beta &amp; Phi Society\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Robert Paul Compton (Col class of &#8217;77) of Kirkwood, Missouri, passed away on Monday, June 30, 2025. 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