December 22, 1938 – August 9, 2021
Personal funeral providers are held for Robert Walter Herbert Gunther, 82, from Coquille. The burial takes place within the Rink Creek Cemetery.
Bob was born on December 22, 1938 in Manhattan, New York, to Herbert and Louise Gunther and died on August 9, 2021 in Portland of issues from a coronary heart assault.
He grew up within the Bronx and graduated from the School of Forestry on the State College of New York. On June 16, 1962, he married Mary Gillen and the 2 retired to Medford, Oregon, the place he started a protracted profession within the Bureau of Land Administration.
Bob and Mary had six sons and loved watching their youngsters and, later, their grandchildren go about their numerous actions. They had been married for 51 years. After Mary’s demise, Bob married Patricia (Goergen) Collins on January 3, 2015, and he and Patsy lived in Coquille till his demise.
Bob had the center of a volunteer and spent a few years serving to folks with their taxes by way of the AARP Tax Support Program and volunteering at each the Scorching Meal Program and the Coquille Meals Financial institution. He has participated in quite a lot of golf tournaments on the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort. His biggest volunteer work got here within the Boy Scout program, together with three many years as head of the Eagle Scout Board of Assessment for the Chinook District, a time period that resulted in 2020.
Bob served as Assistant Boy Scout Grasp and Boy Scout Grasp for Coquille’s Troop 63 all through the Boy Scouting days of all of his youngsters and served as a part of the Troop Committee for a number of years, totaling about twenty years with the Troop. All six sons – Mike, Steve, Bob, Allen, John and Andy – achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. Bob obtained the very best award for grownup boy scouts in 1994, the Silver Beaver. He was additionally chosen for the Vigil Honor, the very best award for the Order of the Arrow, an honor group of Boy Scouts. The title of the vigil chosen for him match completely, Kwan Wake Hehe Mamook Kumtux, translated as silent, severe mentor.
Bob and Mary, and later Bob and Patsy, had been lively members of the Holy Identify Catholic Church in Coquille, and he served for a few years on the church’s ward council and as a volunteer on the annual spaghetti dinner.
Bob cherished the outside and loved fishing, in addition to journeys with Mary and later Patsy alongside the south coast and throughout the western United States to go to nationwide parks and different stunning locations. He was additionally keen on pictures and made albums from these journeys.
Bob loved gardening and infrequently donated the surplus produce to the Coquille Meals Financial institution. He additionally cherished making wine, together with utilizing quite a lot of fruits and lots of the wild berries that develop on the south coast. His personal classic included blackberry, raspberry, strawberry, Oregon grape, salal, blueberry, thimbleberry, salmonberry, and his favourite elderberry.
He loved an excellent card sport, together with a few years of cribbage at lunch with colleagues on the BLM and cherished pinochle video games on Sunday evenings with Mary and shut associates Rol and Cathy Schmidt, in addition to hours as a household enjoying the Gunther clan favourite Biff.
Bob is survived by his spouse Patsy; his sister and brother-in-law Doris and Bob Olsen of Amawalk, New York; his sons and daughters-in-law, Mike and Amy from Morgantown, West Virginia, Steve and Margarita from Beaverton, Allen and Joni from Portland, John and Lori from Coquille, Andy and Paula from Vancouver, Washington; Son, Bob de Coquille; and grandsons, Michael, Elizabeth, Kimberly, Hayden, Mariella, Matthew, Alex, Camille, Connor, Finn, Benjamin and Isaac. In demise his spouse Maria and his dad and mom preceded him.
As a substitute of flowers, donations will be made to the Coquille Meals Financial institution, PO Field 465, Coquille, Ore., 97423.
The providers are beneath the course of Amling Schroeder Funeral Service, 541-396-3846.
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