Robert Earl Steiner, Jr.
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Robert Earl Steiner Jr., known as Bob, Dad, or Papa to his grandkids, passed away on Wednesday, July 20th, 2022, at 79 years of age from complications of Alzheimer's disease.
Bob was born in Cleveland, Ohio on March 18,1943 to Marie Emerson Steiner and Robert Steiner Sr. He and his three younger siblings, Jim, Marcia, and Pam, grew up in Orville, Ohio. He attended Orville High School and graduated in 1961.
Bob moved to Michigan to attend Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, where he married his first wife, and had two children, Karol and Bruce. He later moved to Washington D.C. and worked for the National Park Service, where he met the love of his life, Linda Talbot; they married in Michigan in 1970. He worked in property management for 18 years, primarily in Novi, Michigan. He later moved to Wixom, Michigan, where he put his carpentry skills and extensive building and mechanical knowledge to use building an office, bedroom, and bathroom in the basement of the family home. He and his wife Linda moved to Texas in 1996, and lived in Arlington and Irving, before settling in Flower Mound, TX where they lived for twenty years. Bob built a pergola in the backyard of their home there, and added a solar-powered pool heating system, where many happy memories for his grandkids were made swimming in the pool and having cookouts.
Bob will be most remembered for his deep love for his family and for the way he demonstrated his love through his actions. Whether it was his attendance at his kids' sporting events and activities, which he always video taped, planning road trips to take with his family, selling video equipment so he could take his kids to Disney World, or helping his grandkids with their projects and interests. He enjoyed raising Cichlids (fish native to Africa), and attended meetings of the American Cichlid Association, and was able to pass on his interest to his grandkids, helping them get started in their own fish hobby. He taught his grandkids about woodworking and how to use tools, they helped him with projects around the house, and he helped them make plans and build various projects they dreamed up. He looked forward to when his grandkids stayed over for the weekend, and they enjoyed Papa's tradition of making homemade waffles when they woke up in the morning.
Bob is survived by his loving wife of 51 years, Linda, son Jim and daughter-in-law Maria, daughter Nicole, son-in-law Gil, and grandchildren Zach, Luke, Maddie, Max, and Milo, and son Adam and daughter-in-law Jody, daughter Karol and grandchildren Elizabeth, Brendan and Nicole, son Bruce, daughter-in-law Kim, and granddaughter Sarah. In addition, he is survived by his brother Jim and sister Marcia. He is preceded in death by his parents, Robert Sr. and Marie, and by his sister, Pam.
The family will hold a memorial service on August 11th at 1:00 pm at Trietsch Memorial Methodist Church, 6101 Morriss Road Flower Mound, TX 75028, and request donations to The Alzheimer's Association in lieu of flowers.
"The best portions of a good man's life is his little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love"- William Wordsworth
"Let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth" (1 John 3:18)