Robert Beau PLUNKETT

PLUNKETT, Robert Beau
Passed away on March 31, 2010, at age 83. Born in Clarkston, Wash., Bob grew up in San Leandro before entering the Marines at 17 and going to the Pacific during WWII. After returning from the war, he attended UC Berkeley and within a few years married his loving wife Nina. The two of them had 61 wonderful years together enjoying a terrific family life in Meadow Vista raising son Greg, and daughters Judy Brzyscz and Janice Lawson. Bob was very well thought of in the lumber business from the '50s through the '80s owning several very successful lumber production and sales enterprises in the Western U.S. and Mexico. Beyond his fulfilling business career, Bob had many pleasures taking advantage of every waking moment. He really enjoyed world wide travel with Nina, swimming and cross-country skiing, the great outdoors especially at their second home overlooking Lake Tahoe, good food and drink, veracious reading especially on historical subjects, continuing education in both English and Spanish, and lively conversations with much laughing and joking with his many friends. In the last third of Bob's life, his grand children gave him great pleasure and they too remember him for his praise and companionship, sense of humor, their singing together, playing tennis, and his wonderful generosity. Bob will be strongly remembered as a very good husband, father, grandfather, and friend, and at the end telling those closest to him that he loved them. Robert Beau Plunkett had a wonderful full life.