Robert Crawford Douglas

age 88, passed away peacefully at Boulder Community Health Foothills Hospital in

Boulder, Colorado on the morning of February 27. He was surrounded by his three

children and son-in-law.

Robert was born in East Orange, NJ on May 19,1931 to Matthew Douglas and

Sarah Gray Smith. He grew up in the Union, NJ area and graduated from Union High

School in 1948. He then attended and graduated from Heidelberg College in 1952

(Tiffin, OH) with a BA in English Literature and Philosophy. He married Virginia Nowack,

his college sweetheart in 1954 and then started graduate school at Columbia University

but left his studies to serve in the United States Army. Rob was stationed at Fort Belvoir

from 1955-1957. He then resumed his studies and received his Master’s in Divinity from

Columbia University ( Union Theological Seminary) in May 1961. Rob then moved his

family to California to pursue his PhD at USC but ran out of funding and started to work

in the publishing branch for Prentice Hall as a college textbook traveler. In 1963 Rob

joined the publishing firm John Wiley and Sons and worked for Wiley first as a manager

and eventually in New York City as vice president of the college divison, a position he

held until his retirement in 1987. After retirement Rob and Ginny settled in Del Mar,

California, where he resided until 2016.

Rob was a highly successful businessman and gifted storyteller who was

committed to both the family he was born into as well as the one he created. Rob was

an adventurer and traveled all over the world with his family and in retirement with his

wife Ginny. He loved good food and wine and valued sports, humor, music and

theology.

Rob was preceded in death by his wife of 47 years, the late Virginia Mary Nowack

Douglas, brother John Douglas and sister Jean Teufel. He is survived by daughters

Jennifer Douglas-Larsson (Torbjorn Larsson) and Debbie Douglas-Singleton (DrewSingleton) son Bruce Douglas, and seven grandchildren (Erik Larsson, Alex Larsson,

Katie Singleton, Justin Singleton, Maddie Douglas, Olivia Douglas and Quinby Douglas.

A service and celebration of life will take place at a later date . In lieu of flowers,

the family requests that donations be made in honor of Robert Crawford Douglas to

the "John T. Douglas Fund " ( https://www.temple.edu/boyer/support-boyer/index.asp )

and/or The American Cancer Society

( https://donate3.cancer.org/?_ga=2.263330447.2053660142.1585326117-132878756.15

83345593 )