Bob Born, candy executive and 'Father of Peeps,' dead at 98
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Ira "Bob" Born, 98, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who led Just Born Quality Confections for much of his adult life and mechanized the "Peeps" manufacturing process, died Sunday.
Born began his life in New York City on Sept. 29, 1924. His father, Sam Born, was a Russian immigrant who started Just Born shortly before his son's birth. The family later moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where Just Born is still based.
Bob Born graduated from Lehigh University with a degree in engineering physics. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served as a radar specialist and a lieutenant on a destroyer in the Pacific. Later, the Navy sent him to the University of Arizona and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate work in math and physics.
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