Ronald E. Robertson

Love leaves a memory no one can steal.

Ronald Eugene Robertson was Iowa bred, born on March 13, 1947. His parents, Doris Irene Starks and Paul Eugene Robertson, weathered WWII, then joined the generational family business of farming. Having computer training after high school, Ron opted to leave farming and join the Air Force during the Vietnam War as a computer operator, spending most of his enlistment at the SAC base in Fairbanks, Alaska. Thereafter, graduating from the University of Iowa with a degree in business, Ron moved from his native Iowa to Colorado with his first wife, Trudy, and his two sons, Scott and Paul. In 1981, he married Marsha Jean Smith and settled into the Denver area of the Rocky Mountains. Much of his career was spent in business consulting – traveling from coast to coast and internationally to advise presidents and CEOs of Fortune 100 companies on how to improve their business results. Ron was blessed with being able to own a plane, flying being his most loved hobby, providing unfettered freedom on airborne wings. At home, Ron was the consummate chef, having had some professional training, assembling an admirable library of cookbooks, but most always creating dishes to his own tastes. He assembled an enormous pantry collection of herbs and spices! Over the years, severe genetic spinal degeneration cut short his enjoyment of both climbing into his plane’s cockpit or standing over a cutting board and stove. So, too, was cut short his life by cancer at 73 years old, dying in the early morning hours of December 26. Ron should be remembered as a true patriot and student of our country’s history. He loved it inordinately. Ron was predeceased by his parents and his son Scott. Wife Marsha, son Paul and daughter-in-law Charlotte comforted and cared for him in his last days, spent at home . . . now missing him so terribly, loving him so dearly . . . waiting to again lovingly hug him tightly in Heaven. Sleep well, dear one.

Earth has no sorrow

That Heaven cannot heal.