ROBERT SUMMERS

This is going to sound odd, as I never knew Mr. Summers. But I have just come across a photo in an old family album of seven people seated by the water, dated 1914. The names listed on the back include my grandmother, my great-aunt, and Sidonia Lubell. It's such a wonderful and unusual name that I had to google it. The figures are very tiny in the picture, but please contact me if you would like a scanned copy. And all my sympathies on your loss!

I was Bob's tennis Coach for more than 20 years. I told him years ago that when he turned 80 I would teach him for free for the duration. Bob received free instruction for a couple of years before he moved to Maine. I truly loved working with Bob. He was such an interesting man and I always enjoyed our time on the court together. I was especially impressed at how devoted he was to his wife Sherma. He loved her very much.

I will miss you Bob. We will pick up where we left off when I...

I had wonderful parents. Please enjoy this photo of Mom and Dad (Robert A. Summers) with their twins in 1968 and 1969.

Dad will always be remembered by his family for the enormous hugs he greeted us with every time we visited and the way he would stand outside waving farewell until our cars were out of sight. (Photo of him waving from the Great Wall of China, having traveled to Beijing on US government business to help scientists re-purpose unclassified technologies derived from nuclear weapons programs.)