Robert Charles Sauers, 84, of Iowa City, died June 4, 2009. Robert was born Dec. 9, 1924, at West Lafayette, Ind., to John and Harriet Beinkamp Sauers. He graduated from Riverside-Brookfield High School at Riverside, Ill. in 1943. During World War II he served in the Army Air Corps as an armorer-gunner.
He graduated from Grinnell College in 1949 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. He held a master’s degree in history from Indiana University and a master’s degree in library science from the University of Iowa.