Robert Alan Berdell

Still missing you Robert, as I drove past PENNRIDGE high school yesterday on a Thanksgiving visit to my family. Any time I'm here and I pass the sign on Rt309 saying Perkasie, I think of you anew. Sigh.

I was fortunate to have Rob as a friend for nearly 43 years. We met in 1973 and never lost touch. It always brightened my day to find his unmistakable handwriting among my mail. I kept all the photos, letters, cards and gifts because even plain envelopes were uniquely decorated. I valued his creativity, his encouragement, his inspiration but mostly his friendship. I'll always remember our fresh pineapple breakfasts and tree branch hunt through the woods. I loved you then I love you...

P.S. I saved all your cards!

Robert and I met when I was teaching art classes in Oceanside California. He came in as a student and we became fast friends. We were together often for dinners, parties, holidays or just nothing at all.....When I later moved from California we eventually disconnected as both our lives went into different directions. Tonight, I reached out to reconnect and found a photo of Robert on Facebook that is exactly how I remember him. Then, sadly, I found the message about his passing. I am so very...

I worked with Robert in his backyard LA studio, launching his first couture line, back in the early 80s. I was his cutter/draper, and remember the outfits so clearly.

We always felt a kinship because he was from Perkasie, and I always had passed signs to Perkasie and Sellersville as I drove from Phila. up to Allentown College. And now low and behold I meet a person from Perkasie!

Plus our birthdays were very close, within a week, same year.

I had sent him a Facebook...

I am just now seeing this obituary. Robert has been in my thoughts daily since his death. I wonder if he has sent me a message to let me know he is at peace. Robert had encouraged me to see the movie "The Train", which is an old movie about WWII. I had added it to my netflix account right after our converstation, which was about a year and a half ago. It never came and everytime I checked on it, it said "very long wait". That film arrived from Netflix the week after his death. Could be...

loved doing theatre with Bob in high school. so happy to read about his career in the theatre and television and then the way he reinvented himself later. sorry our paths didn't cross again after summer theatre at Pennridge High in the '70's!

Love and prayers for Robert's family.

My deepest sympathy to Brent and the rest of Bob's family. Bob was a unique spirit and always full of a can-do energy that got us through many many long nights at CMU - that and his tuna fish sandwiches! He also had an creative empathy that I am sure served him and his clients well in his second career. In my mind he is still singing, cracking jokes, and sewing sequins. Patrice Alexander