ROBERT-DINSMOOR-Obituary

ROBERT S. DINSMOOR

Boston, Massachusetts

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February 23, 2024
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Boston, Massachusetts

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DINSMOOR, Robert S. Robert S. "Rob" Dinsmoor, age 65, passed away peacefully on February 23, 2024, at Beverly Hospital, Massachusetts, with his family by his side. He is survived by his brother, Dan (Jeanne Briskin); sister, Mara; niece, Lily; and nephews, Ari, Gabriel and Joseph Dinsmoor; along...

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He was /is such a great friend and really, really really funny! Also, even in his bad days when he looked a little down, he was a great friend to everyone else. Also, a wonderful writer.

Rob was a wonderful person, with a great sense of humor. A great friend to all. I will miss him.

Rob was a kind man and a pleasant neighbor; gone too soon...

Rob and I reconnected many years after our graduation from Dartmouth, when he moved to South Hamilton and started posting pictures on Facebook of his walks with his dog. At the time, my mother-in-law was still living in Hamilton, and occasionally I had reasons to relay his pictures to her (a topic of conversation).

Rob was the driest of wits and the warmest of people. When we were at Dartmouth together working on the Jack-O-'Lantern, he was the one in a roomful of loud comedians who would wait for a lull in the hilarity and then drop the perfect capper with surgical precision. I was lucky to see his work with the Chucklehead comedy troupe in Manhattan in the early 1980s -- one of those gangs of talented maniacs that should have made it big but inexplicably didn't. When I moved back to Boston in 2002,...