Robert Killbourne Gould

Robert K. Gould, founded accounting firm

Services for Robert K. Gould, a retired certified public accountant and long time Lockport, NY resident, have been held in Concord, NH.

Gould, 78, founder of Buffalo's Gould and Swanson accounting firm, died last Saturday (Feb. 5, 1994) in the New Hampshire Veterans Home, Tilton, NH. A well-known CPA in Lockport and Buffalo, Gould was a partner in the Graef, Cutting and Coit accounting firm and a manager at KPMG Peat Marwick, Buffalo, before founding Gould and Swanson. He was a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, past president of the Buffalo Chapter of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, a former director of the state CPA society, a former member of the State Board of Regents and a founder of the Annual Institute of Federal Taxation. He had been a member for many years of the Middleport Rotary Club. A native of Cumberland, MD., he was a 1947 honors graduate of Niagara University, a graduate of the Bentley School of Accounting, Boston, Mass., and attended Hamilton College, Clinton. Gould is survived by his wife, the former Jean Coventry; a son, David of Durham, NC; four daughters, Sharon Larson of Blue Springs, Mo., Linda Massill of Marietta, Ga., Bonnie of Knoxville, Tenn., and Barbara Girard of Pembroke, NH, a sister, Stella Fales of Sarasota, FLa.; and 15 grandchildren.