Robert M Reimer

Robert M. Reimer, 85 of Oshkosh, loving husband, father, grandfather, and father-in-law, died Thursday May 21, 2009 at his home. He was born in Oshkosh on May 11, 1924 son of Frank and Esther Wolf Reimer. On April 30, 1949 he married Sylvia Hoffman in Oshkosh.Robert had been employed by Wisconsin Public Service Corporation for over 37 years. He had worked on the line crew and as foreman. He created and presented Path-to-Ground presentations which he gave to all Oshkosh schools, firefighters, and other community groups. He also helped junior line crew members study for their journeyman tests. He was a member of St. Andrew Lutheran Church and had served his country in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the Pacific and Asiatic Theaters. After his retirement, he took on a second career as Grandpa, helping with Grandma to raise two grandkids while spending six months each year in Canada. His hobbies and interests included cars, travel, camping, muzzle-loading rifle competitions, the Old West and cowboys, woodworking, dogs and cats, the Packers, and especially his grandkids, Lauren and David whose baseball teams he often cheered on. He helped to restore his daughters 150 year old home. He is survived by his wife of sixty years, Sylvia Reimer of Oshkosh; daughter, Susan (Brian) Cox of Limehouse, Ontario, Canada; grandchildren, Lauren Reimer Cox and David Robert Cox both of Limehouse Ontario; niece, Judy Vallier of Waukesha, WI; nephews, Dan Bobzin of Stevens Point, WI, David Bobzin of Mascoutah, IL, and Frank Reimer Jr. of Freedom, WI. He was preceded in death by a brother, Frank Reimer.A memorial service for Robert will be Sunday May 24, 2009 at 2:00 PM at Lake View Memorial Park Chapel with the Rev. Thomas McFarland officiating. Inurnment will be in Lake View Memorial Park. Family and Friends may call at the chapel on Sunday from 1:00 PM until the time of the services. Death is nothing at all.I have only slipped away into the next room....Whatever we were to each other, that we still are.Call me by my old familiar name.Speak to me in the easy way which you always used....Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.Let it be spoken without affect,Without the trace of a shadow on it.Life means all that it ever meant.It is the same that it ever was.There is absolutely unbroken continuity.Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?I am waiting for you, for an interval,Somewhere very near, just around the corner.All is well.Nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before-Only better, infinitely happier and forever.-Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918)

Lake View Memorial Park



2786 Algoma Blvd
Oshkosh
WI
54901

Sunday, May 24, 2009
1:00 to the service



Lake View Memorial Park



2786 Algoma Blvd
Oshkosh
WI
54901

Sunday, May 24, 2009
2:00 p.m.



Lake View Memorial Park



2786 Algoma Blvd
Oshkosh
WI
54901