Robert John Cimiluca

Robert John (Bob) Cimiluca - son, brother, husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather-was born in Astoria, N.Y. in 1932 and passed away peacefully in Los Angeles on March 24, 2026 after several difficult years struggling with Parkinson's Disease, and then with stroke related aphasia.

Bob was preceded in death by his parents Carmelo and Annziata de Rosa Cimiluca, brother Don, his former wife Nancy Valdes Cimiluca, and first son Robb. Bob is survived by his wife of 52 years Demitra (Dee Dee) Theophelos Londos Cimiluca and their sons Christopher and Nicholas, and by Nick's wife Monica Miklas and their new son Theophilos Marian Cimiluca. He is also survived by Robb's daughter Simone and her husband JN and by their daughter Liva.

Bob's father was a New York City taxi driver. When Bob was 12 years old his mother died, and being then largely unsupervised he dropped out of school to work on the docks where the morning ritual of sticking his arm in a barrel of cold grease to lubricate conveyor belts convinced him to return to school.

He spent some of that time at Stuyvesant High and went on to graduate with a degree in Philosophy from Brooklyn College. He became a Marine after graduating from college and he earned his commision at Officer Candidate School then attended the Quantico Marine Corps Basic School class 2-57. In Basic School he formed life long, bonded friendships.

After the Marines he worked for Philco computing, installing the predecessor to the DEW system in Alaska. Following Philco he joined the Space and Defense sector at TRW whence some of his programming and debugging efforts may still be in orbit. At the end of the 60's he took a three year leave from TRW to join two friends that founded a computerized communications company called MSTS which obtained a single contract with Santa Monica's Saint John's Hospital where he met Dee Dee -a physical therapist.Much later Bob would say that he was working on the computer super highway when it was just a dirt road.

After retiring from TRW he became more active in the Westwood South of Santa Monica HOA and eventually served many years as president then as treasurer.

Bob was a great story and joke teller, a voracious reader and crossword puzzler, and he relaxed by working physics problems. He became involved in genealogy, researching his Italian ancestry and taking Italian classes-learning to speak Italian well enough to converse adequately with the people in the cities and villages of his ancestors on several trips there. His hobbies included woodworking,home brewing,limited-though appreciated-yardwork and attempting, unsuccessfully, to devise a simpler way to calculate the volume of a cone segment.

He was a very big presence in our lives and it is hard and sad to know the empty place of him not being in the world anymore.

He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him.

In lieu of flowers, the family invites you to honor Bob’s memory through a donation to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research - Here until Parkinson’s isn’t.

https://give.michaeljfox.org/campaign/754703/donate

Burial will take place the week of April 6th at Miramar National Cemetery.

A Celebration of Friendship and Love: Service details, including date and location, to be announced.