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December 15, 2009
Services
A memorial Mass will be held at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, December 28, 2009 at 10:30 AM.
"Adventure Bob 509" was 71 years old.
An Eagle Scout, world traveler, and Wayne resident for 46 years.
Robert H. Christie, age 71 of Wayne, died on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains.
Bob was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and moved to Caldwell, N.J.as a young boy. He graduated from Grover Cleveland High School in Caldwell with the class of 1956 and received his bachelors degree from Colgate University in 1960. He later earned his M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
He had been employed by Seatrain Lines, GAF, Shulton, Tambrands, and Solomon Smith Barney before establishing his own financial services company: Trans Atlantic Consultants, Inc.
Bob was active with the Boy Scouts and proudly achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank in Scouting. Both his sons also achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. In addition, he volunteered his time to the Wayne Planning Board, Wayne Board of Adjustment, and the Wayne Open Space Committee.
"Adventure Bob 509" traveled the world after his retirement in 1999. He has been to all seven continents including such places as the Great Wall of China, Russia (with a stay at the American Embassy in Moscow), African jungles, the Galapagos Islands, and Victoria Falls. We also visited Hawaii, Alaska, and Nova Scotia together. He was often planning his next adventure before the current one was completed. In fact, he was almost packed for his trip to the Panama Canal on November 30.
After every trip he would distribute a report to all his friends and family, detailing the latest adventure. Those reports now serve as cherished memories of a life well lived.
Bob was also well known for his fantastic garden. If he wasn't traveling, he was tending to the garden. The way his garden is situated, it's easily visible from the street and everyone in the neighborhood knows him as "the man with the beautiful garden". This truly was his pride and joy, after his family, of course!
Robert is survived by his beloved wife of almost fifty years, Rose Marie of Wayne; one daughter, Elizabeth Fojtu, and her husband, Milos, of Chester, N.J.; two sons: Scott S., and his wife, Sylvia, of Basking Ridge, and Robert A., and his wife, Holly, of South Glastonbury, Connecticut; one brother, John, and his wife, Joyce, of Florida and New Jersey; and nine grandchildren: Veronika, Caroline, Peter, and Sebastian Fojtu of Chester; Matthew, Noah, and Anya Christie of Basking Ridge; and Meghan Messier and an expected sibling of South Glastonbury, CT.
In lieu of flowers, if friends so wish, donations may be made in Robert's memory to Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 or to Fr. Beiting Appalachian Mission Center, P.O. Box 885, Louisa, Kentucky 41230.
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A memorial Mass will be held at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, December 28, 2009 at 10:30 AM.
December 15, 2009
Services
A memorial Mass will be held at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, December 28, 2009 at 10:30 AM.
"Adventure Bob 509" was 71 years old.
An Eagle Scout, world traveler, and Wayne resident for 46 years.
Robert H. Christie, age 71 of Wayne, died on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains.
Bob was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and moved to Caldwell, N.J.as a young boy. He graduated from Grover Cleveland High School in Caldwell with the class of 1956 and received his bachelors degree from Colgate University in 1960. He later earned his M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
He had been employed by Seatrain Lines, GAF, Shulton, Tambrands, and Solomon Smith Barney before establishing his own financial services company: Trans Atlantic Consultants, Inc.
Bob was active with the Boy Scouts and proudly achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank in Scouting. Both his sons also achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. In addition, he volunteered his time to the Wayne Planning Board, Wayne Board of Adjustment, and the Wayne Open Space Committee.
"Adventure Bob 509" traveled the world after his retirement in 1999. He has been to all seven continents including such places as the Great Wall of China, Russia (with a stay at the American Embassy in Moscow), African jungles, the Galapagos Islands, and Victoria Falls. We also visited Hawaii, Alaska, and Nova Scotia together. He was often planning his next adventure before the current one was completed. In fact, he was almost packed for his trip to the Panama Canal on November 30.
After every trip he would distribute a report to all his friends and family, detailing the latest adventure. Those reports now serve as cherished memories of a life well lived.
Bob was also well known for his fantastic garden. If he wasn't traveling, he was tending to the garden. The way his garden is situated, it's easily visible from the street and everyone in the neighborhood knows him as "the man with the beautiful garden". This truly was his pride and joy, after his family, of course!
Robert is survived by his beloved wife of almost fifty years, Rose Marie of Wayne; one daughter, Elizabeth Fojtu, and her husband, Milos, of Chester, N.J.; two sons: Scott S., and his wife, Sylvia, of Basking Ridge, and Robert A., and his wife, Holly, of South Glastonbury, Connecticut; one brother, John, and his wife, Joyce, of Florida and New Jersey; and nine grandchildren: Veronika, Caroline, Peter, and Sebastian Fojtu of Chester; Matthew, Noah, and Anya Christie of Basking Ridge; and Meghan Messier and an expected sibling of South Glastonbury, CT.
In lieu of flowers, if friends so wish, donations may be made in Robert's memory to Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ 07470 or to Fr. Beiting Appalachian Mission Center, P.O. Box 885, Louisa, Kentucky 41230.
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