Robert Douglas McPheters
Born on November 23, 1942, R. Douglas McPheters died in Prescott Valley, AZ on June 29, 2026. The son of Robert D. McPheters and Jeanne Caesar McPheters, his father was an engineer specializing in paper production and his mother was a registered nurse. Doug grew up in a succession of mill towns in Maine and northern New York. He graduated from Beaver River Central School in Beaver Falls NY, where he was president of the student body, and received his BA from Yale, where he was in the Naval ROTC program. After fulfilling his military obligation as a submarine officer, where he was chief engineer on the USS Tigrone, he received his JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.He spent most of his career in New York City. As a lawyer, he specialized in international banking. In addition to practicing law, he was an inventor and founder of HoloTouch – a technology that allows users to interact with holographic controls without touching physical surfaces, an author, a real estate broker. and an active member of his church. He was also a musician and joyfully played the tuba with several local orchestras and musical groups. Before moving to Arizona in 2019, he lived in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
He is survived by his wife, Ginny Deering, his two sons and their families: John McPheters, his wife Minya Oh, and their son Max of Brooklyn, and Alec and Katie McPheters and their sons Leo and Remy of Los Angeles, and his brother Ken McPheters, and his wife Jean, of Rochester, NH.