Bob Lemke of Iola died January 3rd.

Folks remember him most recently as editor of the Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards, and the Standard Catalog of Vintage Baseball Cards. However when he joined Krause Publicationsin 1977 it was first to work on Numismatic News, then successively editor of Bank Note Reporter, Old Cars Weekly, Sports Collector's Digest and eventually Publisherand Vice President. But it was research and cataloging that he really liked.

In numismatics he was co-author (with Chet Krause) of the Standard Catalog of United States Paper Money (which uses the Krause-Lemke (KL) numbering system) and was also a former editor(along with KPer Doug Watson) of the TAMS Journal.

The KP company history he wrote was A Building is only as Good as its Foundation for the 45th anniversary in 1997. It included plenty of financial and company growth data, more than eitherof the two later books. He also authored The Media of Exchange of Our Penal Institutions.

He was an ANA Century Club award recipient in 1980, 1981, 1983, 1985 at a time when KP was a proud supporter of them.