Robert Joseph Westrich

1925 - 2021

BORN

1925

DIED

2021

FUNERAL HOME

Kutis Funeral Home, Inc, Affton Chapel

10151 Gravois Road

Saint Louis, Missouri

Robert Westrich Obituary

Westrich, Robert Joseph

December 10, 1925 - December 16, 2021. He is reunited with his spouse of 67 years, Jean Schadlbauer Westrich. He will be deeply missed by his loving family. He was the devoted father of Mary Westrich, Joan (Gene) Menges, Susan (Greg) Shipman, Gail (Jim) Cleary and Rob (Betsie) Westrich, Jr.; grandfather of Carson (Courtney) Menges, Sarah (Glenn) Tucker, Grant Menges, Patrick (Megan) Cleary, Dan Cleary, Jimmy and Jeff Shipman and Meredith and Jay Westrich; great-grandfather of Kate, Charlotte and Meredith Menges, Robert Tucker, and Brooklyn and Logan Cleary. He loved his in-laws, the late Gene and Joan Slay and their family.

Services: A memorial Mass will be held at St. Stephen Protomartyr on April 2, 2022. Donations may be made to Gene Slay's Girls and Boys Club of St. Louis, St. Stephen Protomartyr Church or St. Mary's High School. A service of KUTIS AFFTON CHAPEL

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Published by St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Dec. 19, 2021.

Memories and Condolences
for Robert Westrich

5 Entries

Joan Engeseth

March 31, 2022

I hope that the whole Cleary and Westrich family has a weekend of wonderful memories of your dad who was so special, interesting, kind, and a terrific husband, father, and grandfather. My thoughts and prayers are with you all.

Sue Steinbrecher

January 10, 2022

Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us everyday, unseen, unheard but always near, so loved, so missed, so very dear. Thinking of You. Love Sue

Barry Papke

December 20, 2021

I met Bob through his best friend, high school buddy and sailing competitor Len Knobbe (RIP). Bob was always telling stories of his days during WW II with the Merchant Marines and his encounters on the high seas. Bob truly loved his passion for photography but most of all his wife Jean. Bob would say that people came up to him and said that he had taking the pictures for their wedding.
"Westy" was a true sailor at heart. He loved the competition and always wanted to come in first. He loved sailing in the Wednesday Navy Race at Carlyle Lake. He was one of the founders of the race which still continues today.
"Westy" thanks for all the memories of sailboat racing and just sailing on the lake. You taught me a lot about sailing from your experiences. I 'm sure that you are singing the St. Mary's High school fight song in heaven.
Bob, may all the choirs of angels in heaven come to greet you! May all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace.

Karen (Beckley)Lutes

December 19, 2021

My Dad went to high school with Bob and my parents always exchanged Christmas cards with him and Jean. Many years later when I was a checker at Schnucks I waited on Bob and when I told him who I was he always came to my life. It was always a pleasure to see him and wait on him. My sympathy to the entire family

Southside Catholic / St. Mary's High School

December 19, 2021

Bob is an alumnus of Southside Catholic High School, Class of 1944. Three years later, it was renamed St. Mary´s High School. On behalf of the faculty, staff, and students of Southside Catholic / St. Mary´s High School, both past and present, we extend our most heartfelt sympathy to his family, friends, and former classmates.

Also, know that we share in your sorrow and grieve for your loss. Special mention of condolences to his classmates and to those students, who at one time or another, were either upper classmates or under classmates of his and may have passed each other in the hallways, or shared the same classrooms or maybe even participated in some of the same extra-curricular activities as Bob once did; beginning from the time he enrolled as a Freshman in September of 1940 until the time he graduated as a Senior in June of 1944.

Finally, although Bob is gone from this life, his spirit will forever remain here on The Campus of Southside Catholic / St. Mary´s High School. The very same place it was when Bob attended school, and where, on his very first day of class, was bestowed the eternal honor of becoming a "Son of Mary." And just as it has been since Bob enrolled in Southside Catholic, daily prayers will continue to be said and daily masses will continue to be offered for him by the Brothers of Mary.

Danny Slay
Class of 1967
Member - Board of Directors
St. Mary's Alumni Association

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