Robert A. Lindquist

FALMOUTH -- Robert Albion Lindquist died on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013.

Bob was the first of four children born to Robert E. Lindquist and Doris (nee, Libby) Lindquist in August, 1927 in Springfield, Mass. He was educated in Newton, Mass., public schools and earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951. He served in Europe in the Army during World War II and was stationed in Italy.

During his college years he met Jane Carolyn Perry, of Rockland, when she was at Colby College. Bob's father was then manager of the Rockland Woolworth's department store. In 1947, Bob joined the many young men called upon to fight the fires on Mount Desert Island, which allowed him to travel on the new and as-yet-unopened Interstate 95.

Bob and Jane married in 1951 and raised their family of three children in Cape Elizabeth, where he was also served on many town committees, chairing the Sewer Project Committee. In his career as an industrial engineer for Atlantic Bearings of Boston, (later Motion Engineering) he managed sales for Maine. Later, after their children were launched, Bob and Jane moved and lived for 10 years to Beverly, Mass., where he continued his career with Atlantic and was involved in bee keeping through the Essex County Extension service.

Bob was an inventive tinkerer and problem solver who had many tools that he used and shared with his children in all manner of mechanical matters, like automobiles, motorcycles, boats, many engine-related projects and carpentry.

He served many community organizations, including the John Libby Family Association, the Scarborough Historical Society, the MIT Club, U.S. Power Squadron, State Street Congregational Church and Wenham Congregational Church. For many years, he and his family summered on Pine Point in Scarborough and Wind-In-Pines on Sebago Lake.

He will be remembered as a man of few words, dry humor, and a caring disposition.

He is survived by his wife, Jane Perry Lindquist of Falmouth; his sisters, Carolyn Foster of Baltimore, Md., Stephanie Rogers of Rockland, and Marcia Schwenke of Shrewsbury, Mass.; his three children, Eric Albion Lindquist of Augusta, Peter Raymond Lindquist of Camden, and Karen Lindquist Mangino of Yarmouth; granddaughter Libby Lindquist Loiko of Vassalboro, grandsons, Matthew Lindquist of Vassalboro, Simon Bogeart Lindquist of Portland, and Nicholas Robert Mangino of Windham; two great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

A celebration of Bob's life will be held on Friday, Dec. 20, at 1 p.m., at State Street Church UCC, 159 State St., Portland. A reception will follow.

In lieu of flowers donations

can be made to:

Alzheimer's Association

383 U.S. Route 1, #2C

Scarborough, Maine 04074

or www.alz.org

Robert Albion Lindquist