Robert-Shostak-Obituary

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Robert Joseph Shostak

Athens, Ohio

Jul 30, 1943 – May 19, 2025 (Age 81)

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BORN
July 30, 1943
DIED
May 19, 2025
AGE
81
LOCATION
Athens, Ohio

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Hughes Funeral Home (Hughes-Moquin) - Athens Obituary

Robert Joseph Shostak, 81, of Athens, Ohio, passed away at his residence on May 19, 2025. Robert was born in a work camp in Aschaffenburg, Germany, during World War II, the son of Eva (Osczypok) and Joe Shostak. In 1949, the Shostak family immigrated to the United States and eventually settled...

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I first met Bob when he offered pro bono legal counsel to establish the Athens Media Access Center of which I became Chairman of the Board. We became fast friends and Bob occasionally engaged my services as a videographer for legal and personal video productions. Most memorable of our work together was a video he asked me to edit of his trip to Europe to connect with relatives many of whom he had never met before. On this trip, he also visited Auschwitz concentration camp which he told me...