Tks Arch - of course you recall being with Bob, Dennis, Bob Landregan, etc
looking at CB&Q slides in my backyard in West Chicago back in the late 70's. I
posted a pic of Bob in an album labeled Robert 'Bob" Stanage. I'll add more
pics but this 2010 pic shows from L-R, Dennis Popish, Bob (in BR t-shirt),
Gerald & Lee Edgar with appropriately in the background the old W.
Chicago/Turner Jct depot.
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, archie hayden <klinerarch@...> wrote:
>
> Gerald, A friend indeed. He was one of the best and will be missed
> greatly. He loved the Burlington and we felt the same way towards
> him. Rest assured, Gerald that our Lord has His arms of comfort
> around this fine family even as we read this sad news. Archie, a
> Burlington man.
>
> On Mar 12, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Gerald Edgar wrote:
>
> > It is with a VERY great sadness I share the news we just lost one of
> > the 6 founders of CB&Q H.S. nee BRHS, the premier Q china collector
> > but more importantly my closest freind, Bob Stanage. (he passed away
> > early yesterday of an appartent heart attack) Ginny & I met Bob &
> > his then wife Kay in 1976 at the NMRA National Convention. From that
> > meeting and with the encouragement of Bill Glick, Dennis Popish, the
> > late Jack Karnes et al, CB&Q His. Soc. was born. FAR more
> > importantly Bob became our family's closest friend. That's a word
> > that is often used but seldom lived - a real "friend". (for 37
> > years) Bob was at our children's graduations, made numerous road
> > trips with me to meets as well as plain old Q railfanning, shared
> > Christmases, etc. He missed the last 2 meets but some of you will
> > recall one of the finest clinics BRHS has ever had; his presentation
> > on Burlington china. Bob was a U.S. Navy vet(with his other good
> > CB&Q friend, the late Roger Tea), a one-time St. Paul. MN fireman
> > before marrying, former Caterpillar Sales Engineer, then with
> > Kumatsu & later installing solar signals on the AT&SF for a RR
> > supplier. For the past several yrs he was living in Omaha working at
> > Swanson Towers. (his late Mother and his sister also are Omahans).
> > Bob was a Senior DeMolay, the VERY proud father of Rob, an Air Force
> > Academy grad & current USAF Attorney (JAG) and Tod, the successful
> > owner of several martial arts studios - both boys & their families
> > in Georgia. I will post funeral arrangements later today:
> > tentatively Thursday at the Presbyterian church in Elk Horn, NE.
> > Many of you met Bob, as he either hung around my table at meets or
> > walked up & down the aisles greeting old Q acquaintances & making
> > new ones. NO one in my lifetime exhibited more of what it means to
> > be a friend than Bob. I am posting a photo taken at the West Chicago
> > meet in 2010 - I have many more but this one shows his classic
> > smile. It was his encouragement with Bill & Dennis' that conceived
> > and made this group happen.
> > May the Lord keep Bob's family in his arms AND remind each of us
> > what it truly means to be a 'friend'. I miss you Bob...... (and feel
> > badly my words are not doing you justice)
> >
> >
>
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