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CHENHALL -- Robert G. Chenhall, 79, a resident of Albuquerque since 1980, died Sunday, November 16, 2003. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Chenhall of Albuquerque; two sons, Raymond Chenhall of Olympia, WA and Donald Chenhall of Ketchikan, AK; and one daughter, Cookey Fleniken of Washington State. Bob has been married to Bobi, whom he met while teaching at a field school in Southern Arkansas, since 1972. They share five families of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, who live from Ketchikan to Washington State, to Michigan and Ohio. Bob had three, successive professional careers. At the end of WWII, where he had served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, he finished a BA degree at San Diego State University. He then moved to Los Angeles for a position with the international accounting firm of Price Waterhouse & Co. He became a CPA and spent the next few years with "PW", before taking positions as a corporate controller and later chief financial officer with two major corporate organizations. Becoming bored with accounting, Bob began studying archaeology, and finally achieved both MA and Ph.D. degrees from Arizona State University. He was one of the early explorers in the use of computers for cataloging archaeological collections. This work was later expanded to the use of computers in cataloging all types of museum collections. A revised edition of his book, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging: A System for Classifying Man-Made Objects (1978), is still in print. Dr. Chenhall joined to faculty of the Anthropology Department at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, teaching, doing research for the University Museum and field research with the Arkansas Archeological Survey for three years, before he moved on the Rochester, NY to assist with the development of the catalogue system for a new museum. He later moved to Buffalo as Director of the Natural History Museum, and from there to Albuquerque, where he was the founding Director of New Mexico Natural History Museum until his retirement. Through all the years from Arkansas on, he has traveled the world assisting museums in the creation of computerized catalogues of their collections. Memorial services will be held Monday, November 24, 2003, at 11:00 a.m., at French Mortuary, Wyoming Blvd. Chapel. In addition, memorial services will take place at a later date in Cincinnati, OH. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History Foundation, PO Box 7010, Albuquerque, NM, 87194. French Mortuary 7121 Wyoming Blvd. NE 823-9400
        Published on: Sun November 23, 2003