Bob Landau of Eatonton, Georgia, passed away on Oct. 7, 2025, at the age of 92.
A Memorial Service will be held on Nov. 11, 2025, at the Veterans Wall at 11 a.m.
Bob is survived by his wife, Valerie, two sons and daughters-in-law: John and Cami, and George and Lilly; one daughter: Sheila and her husband Andy Bracken; their 11 grandchildren: Kelly, Jehan, William, Justin, Kaila, Steven, Gabriel, Anthony, Robbie, Alex, and Sarah; and 18 great-grandchildren: Sa’eed, Logan, Siraj, Layla, Aubree, Addie, Lynlee, Skylar, Caden, Aylamarie, Lane, Zoey, Amaryllis, Dionysus, Bayleigh, Tori, Isabella, and Bailey Mae.
Bob was born on October 5, 1933, in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Jacob and Martha Landau. He attended Bordentown Military Institute in Bordentown, New Jersey, from 1945 to 1951. He attended Cornell University, graduating in June 1955, and earned his law degree from New York University School of Law in 1957.
He served for two years as a Second and then First Lieutenant in the Army Artillery at Ft. Bliss in El Paso, Texas, and one more tour in 1961 as Captain at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
After moving to New Rochelle, New York, in 1959, he became Chairman of the Board of Education. He joined Bankers Trust Company in New York City in 1960.
Eventually, he became head of their Corporate Trust Division as Senior Vice President, and President of Bankers Trustee Company in London and Luxembourg. He retired in 1991 and in 1992 joined NationsBank as head of their Corporate Trust Division in Atlanta, Georgia, and retired again in 1996.
He established Landau Associates to provide training services to members of the corporate trust industry and to provide advisory and expert witness services to attorneys engaged in litigation. As a result, he traveled all over the country for 20 years, until he retired once again at 85 in 2018.
During his career, he also served as an Adjunct Professor of Management at the Pace University Graduate Business School and at the American Institute of Banking in New York City, as well as at the Cannon Financial Institute of Banking from 1983 to 1994. He is the principal author of all seven editions of “Corporate Trust Administration and Management” published from 1974 to 2015.
He was the founding member of the Financial Industry Securities Council. He served as Chairman of the Corporate Trust Committee of the American Bankers Association, Chairman of the Certification Advisory Board of the Institute of Certified Bankers, Chairman of the CUSP Board of Trustees, and as Managing Director of Vector Management Resources.
In 1996, Bob and his wife moved to Kiawah Island, South Carolina, and in 1999 moved to Eatonton, Georgia. In 2005 he was elected Chairman and Director of the Putnam County Commission and in the ensuing 16 years served as: Chairman and Director of the Rock Island Coves Property Owners Association, Co-Chairman of the Putnam County Bicentennial Committee, Founder, President, and Treasurer of Putnam Community Resources Inc., Builder of the Veterans Wall of Honor Park, Chairman of the 2020 County Census Committee.
Since 1998, he has also served as a Director and Treasurer of Putnam Community Resources, Inc. – the parent of the Putnam Life Source Food Distribution Program.