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Jody Calcara posted a condolence
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Robert & I have been friends since we met in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the early 1970’s. He has always been a positive presence in that loose hilltop community. We stayed in touch over the years.. and he will be missed. Jody Calcara San Anselmo CA
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Norma Nesmith posted a condolence
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
I am so sorry to hear of Robert’s passing. I met him through friends who lived on the Land. He had such light in his eyes. I know you all will miss him and his unending sense of possibilities! Love and sympathy to all who knew and loved him best!
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Monday, February 22, 2021
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Monday, February 22, 2021
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Robert's death is a loss not only to his family and friends, but to the world. He was always looking for the next thing to invent. Robert was part of my world when we were all young and had our futures ahead of us. I'm glad to have kept him as a friend all these years. I know he was ready to go but it's still such a loss to those that loved him. He was a beautiful soul, and we all have wonderful memories of him to keep alive.
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Tom Dodd posted a condolence
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Robert was a warm, good humored, curious and inventive man and my good friend for several decades. We worked projects together while he lived here in coastal California and it was always uplifting to conspire together on a design. He for a few years had a cabinet shop on a cliff overlooking a cove at Pigeon Point Lighthouse. Seldom has a cabinet shop had such a dramatic view. Below him was Prisoner Rock, famous for fishermen being trapped by the high tide and having to spend the night out there. He once watched two women kayak out from that cove. The dorsal fin of a Great White swam near them and they abruptly turned around and paddled hard back to the gravelly beach. He was impressed at how fast they moved those boats. He built beautiful furniture for some very wealthy clients in the Bay Area, custom desks in particular. His work was always impressive. More impressive was his warmth and his humor, and I miss greatly getting to just hang with him and share stories.
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Sunday, February 14, 2021
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Robert,
You welcomed me into the family with no prejudgement or prejudice. Even when Georgia told you my dog's name was "W", you did not shun me. Instead, you took me to Glide Church for a lesson in acceptance.
You accepted me as your brother, just as your father accepted me as his son.
A memeory I will always remember, which is a phrase that seems to follow you everywhere, whenever your name is mentioned.
You were analytical, with a true entrepenurial spirit that had a compassion for all people. Your talents were beyond measure, but what I will cheish the most were the times you, Lori, Georgia and myself sat around playing games, drinking a few glasses of wine and laughing the night away.
You had the determination to not let disabilities define you, and an uncanny ability to always laugh.
As always......Cheers!
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Marty Horst posted a condolence
Sunday, February 14, 2021
My heartfelt sympathy goes out to you and your family. We find it hard to understand why our loved ones are taken from us; it is by faith and trust in God that we find comfort.
ISAIAH 57:1-2
1 The righteous perish,
and no one takes it to heart;
the devout are taken away,
and no one understands
that the righteous are taken away
to be spared from evil.
2 Those who walk uprightly
enter into peace;
they find rest as they lie in death.
Love and peace,
Marty Horst
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Roy posted a condolence
Sunday, February 14, 2021
My family knows of Robert passing. We all have fond memories of him. All thru my life I remember the night we shared together when I was in high school. We talked quite a bit. And at a time I may have thought i knew everything, I found myself in a most delightful and intriguing situation. He was so genuine , courteous, and considerate. I believe it was a visit I value to the point I have often told my closest friends. That can only mean one thing, he is special me. Take care my sweet cousin.
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Ryan Powell posted a condolence
Sunday, February 14, 2021
Uncle Robert, all I can say is that I will miss you terribly (though I believe you'll always be with us in some ways), and that your kindness, intelligence, sense of innovation, individualism, and inner strength has all been a major guiding force in my life, especially my early adult and teenage years.
You gave me advice on asking a girl out in high school when I e-mailed you asking for tips on what might work. You and Uncle Andy helped me with information for my oral history project about America during the Vietnam War that I got an A on when I was in 8th grade. You showed me, my Mom and my brother an amazing time when we came to visit you in San Francisco. You came to my little league baseball games when you visited us in Maryland.
Every time we spoke you had some generous, unchangeably human and instantly relatable wisdom to impart, while simultaneously always remaining humble in its delivery. It was clear on every occasion we were together that the connection we were sharing, while obviously a family bond, was also part of a larger ability of yours to connect with others in a similarly instantaneous, often very humorous, perhaps even spiritual way.
I'll always remember you and all the help you gave me along the way, dear uncle. Your spirit of persistence, invention, and smiling or laughing in the face of whatever life throws at us will likewise always stay with me.
Thank you. Rest easy, I'm sure I'll see you on the other side someday.
Your nephew,
Ryan
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Saturday, February 13, 2021
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In 1956, our family endured a horrendous car accident. On a long car ride from Mississippi to Texas, Dad hit a hidden patch of black ice. The car flipped and flipped and ultimately landed on top of Robert, who had been thrown through the windshield. The radiator burst, pouring boiling water all over five-year-old Robert. The screams must have been horrendous.
The little boy endured unspeakable torture as skin grafts were peeled off, over and over. Release from the hospital was not the end of his challenges, but only the beginning. Barely out of kindergarten, Robert had to relearn how to walk. Because our family moved so frequently, every summer brought the dread of changing into shorts and revealing his scars to yet another group of gawking kids and adults. Robert, little Robert, did that over, and over, and over again, throughout his life.
Amazingly, shockingly, the bitter days seemed few. Instead, Robert focused on what he COULD do: inventions! Tender kindness! Surprises to make others grin – and a gentle heart for those, like him, who endured a body that didn’t always look or work like everybody else’s.
When I was little, and the only girl of three boys, Robert looked out for me. He took me on my first “date.” He put me in his car, made me cover my eyes, and then drove me to a lookout point. When he gave the word, I was greeted with a dazzling display of lights. Quite a surprise after a bumpy ride in the dark. I felt Oh, So, Special. Robert was good at that – making others feel singularly special.
Many of you know his record of invention, like the first mobile X-ray equipment, or a cabinet lock designed to close only after vibration such as an earthquake. Or one of his other many acts of bravery, like the harrowing drive he took to find his stepdaughter after a horrible earthquake.
Many of you know his insistence on living with a beautiful view – in a redwood grove, in a lighthouse, on a houseboat, or on the Spokane River. View was HUGE to him. A kind view, an empathetic view, something that was as much a gift to others as it was to himself.
I’ve heard that Robert was a keynote speaker on the topic of GRIT. No one had more than he did. The only person I know who came close to matching Robert’s – is his wife, Lori. They were a POWER couple – POWERFUL minds, POWERFUL hearts, POWERFUL senses of fun. Oh how we have laughed and danced….
Robert’s tired body has left us – and he can finally rest. But there’s no denying his spirit lives on. He has left pieces of himself with each of us that have made us better human beings. Perhaps his very best invention. Hasn’t he taught each of us how to really SEE each other? To cultivate the human bond, to be more patient, and, most of all, to Love more singularly. Good-bye for now, my brother. We will see you again.
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Tom Dodd Posted Feb 22, 2021 at 12:34 PM
Thank you! A perfect description of a fearless, loving, good humored man that I will miss greatly.
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mariamhennessy@hotmail.com Posted Jun 18, 2021 at 6:32 AM
Robert set an example of overcoming tragic circumstances and creating a meaningful life in spite of them. I met him on The Land, but I didn't know much about him until he came to an event with Lori. He told me his story. I always knew he had a brilliant mind, dexterous hands and incredible persistence. When I met Lori, I knew he had connected with his soulmate and I rejoiced. Now he has passed into the luminosity of the universe and we must celebrate what he brought to the myriad friends who knew him.
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Steve Brady posted a condolence
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Robert's life was marked by some unique challenges. Among them, he had to learn to walk three times! First as a toddler and second as a child whose legs were badly burned in a car accident and lastly as an adult following double amputations below the knee due to diabetes. Robert was shaped by these challenges and he was determined!
Robert was an artist as well as a master craftsman. His furniture designs are things of beauty as well as examples of precision woodworking and design. He spent a lot of time choosing pieces of wood with complimentary and interesting grain patters before ever starting construction. Among other things, Robert made what may be one of the last large pieces created with Brazilian rosewood. It is a thing of beauty and I would love to see it again. Those who are lucky enough to own one of his creations have heirlooms to be treasured by generations.
Robert had a questioning mind. He was never one to take conventional wisdom at face value. He chose a path less taken just to see where it might lead.
I will remember Robert for many things but his generosity is perhaps his most impressive trait. When he saw others struggling with handicaps he devoted time to designing and developing products to help. He did such work out of kindness and empathy, not for personal gain.
We will miss you brother. Know that you are in my prayers and the prayers of many you did not know on earth. Pray for us, as we pray for you. Give Samantha a hug for me. With Love, Steve Brady
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