Many of you became acquainted with Rob and his delightful daughter, Bella over the last year since they’ve been worshiping with us. Rob has volunteered his time in the church school and enjoyed the art and the music and the worship at our church.
Rob was a single dad and struggled every day to make it all work. He would have worked all day and all night in order to provide for Bella. I know only a thumbnail sketch of his history. He grew up outside of New York City and loved being in the city. He loved the variety and the energy and the diversity. After high school, he became a chef and worked at various restaurants before he and his wife Kelly had a child. They soon realized that New York was not the best place to raise their daughter and they moved to Burlington through connections Rob had in the music world. For various reasons, their marriage did not work and Rob gained complete custody of Bella and moved to Waterbury to start over.
He worked at Prohibition Pig, Sunja’s and most recently at the Wesley United Methodist Church. On Wednesday morning, Rob was stung or bitten by an insect and went into anaphylactic shock. He never recovered and was pronounced dead yesterday evening.
We will hold a memorial service at the church on Saturday, September 15th at 10 am. You are welcome to attend.
Below is one of the pieces of art Rob was most recently working on. 
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