“ROBERT B. ROSS | In loving memory of our Dad and Grandpa, Robert B. Ross (USA Major Ret) who joined Dottie, the love of his life for over 50 years on December 11, 2011. Best remembered for his amazing Christmas Hat Creations, his passion to design Stained Glass and his Ababian Horses. Now they can truly be "Heaven's New Food Critics." He is survived by daughters, Valerie Hervert and husband, Lyle Olathe, KS, Carol Baker and Shawn Burns, Overland Park, KS, 9 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. Graveside Service, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, 2:15 PM at Leavenworth Nat'l Cemetery, 150 Muncie Rd, Leavenworth, KS 66048. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to: Wounded Warriors, AUSA(in memo line WSF-Ross), PO Box 134, Manhattan, KS 66505. Kansas City Funeral Directors 913-262-6310. Published in Kansas City Star on December 28, 2011”
The above is all the information that I have about the death of Robert B. Ross. But I feel sure that it is the Robert B. Ross that I knew and that I worked for at Trinity Lutheran Hospital for almost six years.
I began working there in 1975. During that time I learned to like Mr. Ross. We had a lot of fun times. He had a great sense of humor. We had problems with each other but I respected him and liked him. He drove me crazy many times.
He was very smart. I met his wife and saw her at TLH a number of times and talked with her. She was a very nice woman.
Even when he fired me I was never mad at him. Truth is I was happy to get away from there because I liked him but he was driving me crazy. He had set it up that I was to transfer to the BioMed department as soon as they had an opening but I could not hold out even the few short days or weeks until they had an open spot.
We had more good times than bad times. I always “had my ducks inline.” He had a great sense of humor but he never knew when I was kidding him and I sent him into screaming rages a few times and I never told him I was joking with him.
I always respected him and I could understand what made him the person he was but he could still drive me crazy.
I was sent back a couple of times to work at TLH after he fired me. The hospital that I was working for then had taken over TLH. I also exchanged a couple of emails with him.
When I meet up with him one day it will be fun to tell him all of the times that I was joking with him and that he did not know it. We will have some laughs with each other.
I hope if he did not find who he was looking for before his death I hope that now he has found them in heaven.
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