Robert A. Von Sternberg. Bob was 95 when he died Dec. 21. He was our hero. He was resilient, stubborn, strong and gentle to the end. Bob's journey began in San Francisco and carried him across the country, depositing him in Cleveland, Ohio, for half his life and ending in Roseville, Minn., during his final years. A single mother raised Bob and his late twin brother, Don, through the Depression. When World War II came, he reinvented himself (the first of many times) as the top turret gunner in the B-17 bomber, the Rodger Dodger. Shot down over Germany, he spent the last year of the war as a prisoner of war, the experience that marked the rest of his life. College, marriage, career and a family followed, as he became many things during those years: church elder, repo man, loan officer, government worker, Dad. As the evening of his life was closing in, he offered a simple benediction to those he loved: "It's going to be okay." Bob was preceded in death by his wife, Jeanne.
Robert A. Von Sternberg. Bob was 95 when he died Dec. 21. He was our hero. He was resilient, stubborn, strong and gentle to the end. Bob's journey began in San Francisco and carried him across the country, depositing him in Cleveland, Ohio, for half his life and ending in Roseville, Minn., during his final years. A single mother raised Bob and his late twin brother, Don, through the Depression. When World War II came, he reinvented himself (the first of many times) as the top turret gunner in the B-17 bomber, the Rodger Dodger. Shot down over Germany, he spent the last year of the war as a prisoner of war, the experience that marked the rest of his life. College, marriage, career and a family followed, as he became many things during those years: church elder, repo man, loan officer, government worker, Dad. As the evening of his life was closing in, he offered a simple benediction to those he loved: "It's going to be okay." Bob was preceded in death by his wife, Jeanne.
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