Robert “ Bob” was born September 22, 1929 in Ponca City, Oklahoma to Sadie Jane Huie and John Washington Eskridge. On Easter Sunday (March 25) 1951 he married Margaret “Peggy” Mitchell. From 1953 to 1955, during the Korean conflict, Bob served in the Air Force and was a first Lieutenant. During this time, he and Peggy lived in Texas, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Washington State. In Spokane, Washington, they both worked in an architectural office. After his discharge, Bob completed his Master’s Degree studies in architecture at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1957, Bob received a Fulbright Research grant to enable him to work and study architecture in Finland. In 1958, when they returned from Finland and a summer spent in southern Europe, Peggy and Bob both worked again at the same architectural office in Cambridge. In 1962, they moved to Puerto Rico. Bob worked for several architects there, and Peggy did free-lance renderings and studied couture sewing and tailoring. In 1968, they returned to the mainland, and built a house with swimming pool in the Coconut Grove area of Miami, Florida. After working for several architects there, Bob established his own practice, and he and Peggy remained in Miami until Bob’s retirement in 1999.
After retiring, Peggy and Bob bought a small, quite home in Boca Raton, Florida where Peggy found subjects for her watercolor paintings, and they enjoyed their community swimming pool every day. Bob passed away peacefully at home on January 16, 2019.
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