"Dr. Bob," 86, died March 20, 2016, in Albuquerque, NM. He was born April 16, 1929, in Montana. He served as a medic in the Army from 1947-50. Bob jumped at Missoula 1951-54 while attending the University of Montana where he graduated in 1954. Bob went to medical school at Washington University, graduating in 1958, and opened his internal medicine practice in the Espanola Valley in New Mexico for the next 18 years.

His career in medicine extended another 20 years at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he retired in 2000.