MEM jarosak bob

Wed, 14 Apr 2004 --email from Allan Johnson, Dennis Freres

I returned home this afternoon from a two-day trip for lunch with the Florida Micro Reunioners and a visit to the Kennedy Space Center to find the message below from Dennis Freres:

Bob passed away 6:00 AM today. He will be at Branch Funeral Home in Smithtown (724-9500) Thur 4/15 2 - 4 and 7 - 9:30. If you would let Jack and any others know it would help.--Dennis

This is from newsday.com:

JAROSAK-Robert Sr., age 65, of St. James on April 13, 2004. Beloved husband of Madeline. Devoted father of three. Loving grandfather of five. Reposing at the Branch Funeral Home, Inc., 190 E. Main Street, Smithtown, NY. Visiting Thursday 2-4 & 7-9:30PM. Religious service 8PM on Thursday. Prayers 10AM on Friday. Interment to follow at Pinelawn Memorial Park.
Published in Newsday on 4/14/2004

I've known Bob since the late 40's when we were dragooned to attend the same Sunday School in Huntington Station. We got along famously. He disappeared but we next got together in Toaz after he was released by Dix Hills Elementary. Then we were placed alphabetically in homeroom #312 in High School.

He was really dealt a bad hand the last 25 years. He had a major stroke in his early 40's, lost a son in an auto accident, contracted colon cancer, which metastasized, suffered fractures in rehab, etc, etc, etc. Yet, when I called him every month or two, he was always easy to talk to...complaining profanely about the bastids that broke his leg, etc but, despite knowing he was doomed, was positive about the whatever lifetime he had left.

Allan