Timothy Arthur Bond

Timothy Arthur Bond (February 24, 1956) was born and raised a Baltimore boy. He grew up in a large Irish Catholic family as the third of eight children. Tim was athletic and adventurous – he swam, played baseball, and learned how to ride a motorcycle at an early age. While school was tough – he was later diagnosed with dyslexia following his own son’s diagnosis many years later – college was expected in the Bond household, and he had to work harder than most folks. He proudly graduated from Poly and received a BS in mechanical engineering from University of Maryland College Park.

During college, Tim grew an appreciation for the outdoors. He learned to ski on weekend day trips with his younger brother Marty. He also took a course in backpacking and developed a love of hiking and camping – which he passed to his children. After he left his first post-college job, he took a solo motorcycle trip across the country, starting in one of his favorite National Parks, Shenandoah and the Blue Ridge Parkway – a drive his family would later recreate together many times. He (and his kids) loved to accelerate around the curves while his wife Teri often closed her eyes.

Tim married a California girl. He met his future wife Teri at his college friend’s wedding. He always said she was his second California girlfriend because his first was Linda Ronstadt (who he later learned was from Arizona, but who’s keeping track). They were married in 1984, and over the next 39 years, Tim and Teri filled their lives with music, dancing, and time with friends and family. From their “brick oven” rowhome in Baltimore, the couple moved to Annapolis in 1986 as they were already spending the bulk of their time in the historic capital.

Tim and Teri were true partners. They raised two children, Amy and Connor, and always had at least one dog in tow. Tim loved spending time with his kids. Their vacations visiting family in California were legendary, as Teri, the navigator, often found routes that mostly included dirt or unpaved roads.

Tim was a wonderful cook, a skill he also passed onto his son. He had the patience to make any roux and loved to barbeque, especially a pork chop. Tim was also a devoted baseball and basketball coach, becoming the Commissioner of Optimist basketball while also coaching his daughter Amy’s baseball team. He proudly taught his son the jump shot, reminding Connor that jumping was involved and that one was to shoot at its peak. This really gave Connor, at 6’2”, an edge in high school. While he coached his kids, he continued to play pick-up basketball with a steadfast group at the Annapolis Rec Center and was a ringer for many years on the South Street softball team.

Tim and Teri helped found (along with many other families) the Annapolis Babysitting Co-op, a group that, in its founding, ensured reliable, fun (and free) babysitting, but morphed into a wonderful group of lifelong extended family. Holiday parties and ski and camping trips filled the Bond social calendar. Tim remained close with much of his Baltimore family too, often spending holidays there, or a week in July at their beach home. Tim looked forward to the annual gatherings at Bethany with his brother Marty, his sisters Jane, Ro and Sarah, and in-laws Robin and Jim, along with his many nieces and nephews, where cocktails always started promptly on the beach at 5.

Tim was an engineer with the Department of Defense for over 30 years. Being an engineer was a point of pride in the Baltimore Bond family household, however Tim never felt quite satisfied. Nonetheless, he worked on projects his kids always thought were extremely exciting: submarine propellers, and later, found to be extremely important: submarine trash and recycling.

While an engineer by day, Tim found a passion for art and poetry. Tim was deeply introspective – a characteristic he shares with his daughter. This introspection, combined with his new interests, led him to seek a Masters in Pastoral Counseling at Loyola while still working full time, an undertaking that took years of enormous dedication. Upon graduating, he counseled part-time at the YWCA and planned to counsel full time upon retirement, as it satisfied a passion that engineering never quite fulfilled.

In 2013, Tim was diagnosed with the pernicious Primary Progressive Aphasia, a devastating form of dementia that attacks the relatively young. This disease slowly and painfully took away Tim’s ability to live life fully. Relying on his deep spirituality, support of family, and many wonderful professionals, Tim attacked his disease admirably. His family was so proud of his perseverance and strength throughout the final years of his life and are so thankful he participated in both of his children’s weddings and met two of his grandchildren – and that he got to see the beginning of a winning season for his beloved O’s.

Tim is survived in death by his 2nd California girlfriend and loving wife Teri, daughter Amy, son Connor, daughters-in-law, Callie and Heather, and three grandchildren, Aurora, Tadhg and Griffin.

In lieu of flowers, Tim’s family asks any donations be made in his name to the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration Foundation (https://www.theaftd.org), Loyola Clinical Care, or Dr. Hillis at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Checks can be mailed directly to the latter two clinics (details below).

His large group of family and friends will dearly miss this loving, caring, and thoughtful human being. There will be a celebration of life this fall with many things Tim loved.

Loyola Clinical Care, 5911 York Road, Suite 100, Baltimore, MD 21212 (ATTN: Kara Vincent)

Argyle Elizabeth Hillis, MD, MA, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Phipps 446, 600 N. Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287 (ATTN: For Dr. Hillis’s PPA work)