Robert J. Newson, Jr., [Air Force Academy] Class of 1960, died on March 23,1984, at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., after an illness with cancer. He was 45.

Newson was a native of Louisiana and received a master's degree in business administration from Stanford University in 1970. At the time of his death he was a self - employed real estate syndicator in Redwood City, Calif.

He is survived by two sons, Erik and Christian Newson; his wife, Bonnie; three half-brothers, Jim Edwards, Bruce Edwards and Glenn Edwards; and two half-sisters, Bonnie Right and Lenore Muncie.