[Oe List ...] Bob Booher: End of Journey on Earth

[William Schlesinger]

Bob touched our lives. Profoundly.

Bill and Carol Schlesinger.

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024, 3:19 PM Ellie Stock via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
> On Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 08:19:31 PM CST, Sarah Booher
> (gefbooher at stny.rr.com) wrote:
>
> Bob passed away this morning Feb 18 about 11 am. It was peaceful with
> family there.
> Today she wrote and asked me to share on the list serves:
>
> We are working on the obituary. Bob did not want a funeral.  He wanted the
> family to hold a private memorial event outside on his daughter’s farm at a
> later time.  People are encouraged to make a donation to a worthy local
> charity of their choice and he was very involved with good vocal groups
> struggling financially… don’t they all.
>
> Sarah will forward the obituary when it is complete.
>
> Carleton and I worked with Bob as part of the Rochester LCX for the six
> years we were there--many meetings and events between our neighboring
> congregation, Dewey Avenue Presbyterian Church and his, Christ Presbyterian
> Church.  Bob was a mentor, friend, and colleague, and we always appreciated
> his sense of care, compassion, sense of humor, and passion for justice,
> grounded in local communities.  Our paths crossed many times through the
> ICA and in 2014 when he and Sarah attended the 40th reunion of the
> Rochester Region Global Odyssey.  We had a chance to talk with him a few
> weeks ago when he was looking for the words to the Being Song and also the
> In Memoriam Reflection, at that time in hospice care.  He said he was
> half-way through the 6 months' time the doctors gave him.  A few days ago
> we talked with Sarah and Bob was talking in the background, saying he was
> "lumping along".  I asked, limping along?, and he said just "lumping" along.
>
> We give thanks for and celebrate the gift of his passionate life, his care
> and love for creation (grounded in their farm) and for his love of music
> and singing.  Our prayers are with Sarah and all the family.  May Bob's
> legacy live on through those whose lives he touched.
>
> Grace and peace~
> Ellie
> elliestock at aol.com
>
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