PAA/DL Capt. Robert “Bob” Isaac Ober

 

~ IN MEMORY ~

PAA/DL Capt. Robert “Bob” Isaac Ober

August 15, 1940 ~ December 6, 2023

 

Notice of passing…..retired Pan Am/Delta pilot Captain Bob Ober, age 83.  Bob joined Pan American 04-25-1966 and retired with Delta Air Lines.  Bob is survived by his wife Lynda, children David and Jennifer, daughter-in-law Heather, son-in-law Steve, grandchildren Sabrina, Brandon, Carly, Joshua and Jacob and his sister Jayne.

 

Obituary information can be found online at

https://clipperpioneers.com/in-memory-of/  also at

https://tbrnewsmedia.com/robert-bob-ober-dies-at-83/

 

PCN Memorial site:

Robert “Bob” Ober passed away on December 6, 2023.  The following was written by Dave Ober:  My sister and I owe our existence to the fateful day in 1960 when Robert “Bob” Ober — while sneaking his friend back into the University of Buffalo infirmary — mistakenly entered our mother’s room during her recovery from chicken pox.

 

Following a mischievous adolescence in which he stole an airplane, launched a rocket from inside his college dorm and ran all-night underground poker games, Bob tried his hand at professional golf until he “matured” to embark on a career as an airline pilot for Pan American and Delta airlines.

 

Bob, 83, was first and foremost a dedicated husband for six decades, sharing a lifelong love affair with Lynda that included high daily doses of laughter. A committed father and grandfather, Bob embraced his family with every fiber of his energetic and colorful existence. He had an insatiable curiosity, an enormous heart and unending generosity, spending most of his time focusing on the problems of the world and the well-being of others. Bob died on Dec. 6 of an aortic dissection.

 

Following his retirement from aviation, Bob’s second calling was teaching at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Stony Brook University. At OLLI, Bob enthralled his students for a dozen years by using his tireless curiosity to sprout spirited debate and brought compelling, high-profile guests to classes in current events and “law and politics.” His classes were always oversubscribed as local learners were eager to hear from the many experts he recruited to educate others and respond to his penetrating and provocative questions.

 

Bob grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, in the shadow of the U.S. Open tennis tournament where he honed his skills watching the greats and even had the good fortune to hit with some of the top pros of the day, like Pancho Gonzalez and Lew Hoad. When he wasn’t working to perfect a golf swing he spent his entire life honing, Bob found ways to defy authority and push the envelope.

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Unfortunately, I need to tell you now that "Bob" Ober passed away on December 6, 2023.  It was quite unexpected.  Bob was always a quite fit and slim fellow. And he was a big tennis player.  In fact, he and his son were rated the number two father/son tennis pair in the U.S. He was scheduled to play a tournament with his son the day following his death.  

I have been in contact with the son over the last month.  Bob was having some chest pains and thought that he might be have been having a heart attack.  They took him to the hospital and found that a lining in the coronary aorta had separated from the wall of the artery.  He lived only two hours.  Sad.  He was a good guy.