In recent years, I had the good fortune of bumping into him at my neighborhood Cub Foods; he and his wife had moved into one of the new condos in the Westend development in St. Louis Park. He told me he loved it there. Just this week I was thinking that it had been too long since I had seen him there, and sensed bad news.
He certainly gave so much to us. Judy Chucker St. Louis Park > On 10/31/2023 2:13 PM CDT Kate Kelnberger <kkelnber...@boreal.org> wrote: > > > I began mourning for Bob when I learned his wife had died. I cherish the > birding hours I spent with Bob on the North Shore and in South Dakota. He > was a very kind man. > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 1:53 PM Paul Worwa <pwo...@allanmechanical.com> > wrote: > > > I was fortunate enough to have had several visits from Bob to our > > Chanhassen home in the last several years as he was targeting specific > > birds for his Carver County lists, and I just loved the stories he told > > about his past. The birding community has suffered a great loss. > > > > Paul Worwa > > Chanhassen, MN > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Minnesota Birds <MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU> On Behalf Of Kim R Eckert > > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 12:39 PM > > To: MOU-NET@LISTS.UMN.EDU > > Subject: [mou-net] Fwd: Bob Janssen > > > > Maybe you had already heard this, but it was news to me… > > > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > From: Jim Williams <woodduc...@gmail.com> > > Subject: Bob Janssen > > Date: October 31, 2023 at 12:34:35 PM CDT > > To: Kim Eckert <ecker...@gmail.com> > > > > Kim, > > Bob died over the weekend, age 91, in hospice care for the past several > > months. > > Jim > > > > > > > > Jim Williams > > Birding columnist, Minneapolis StarTribune > > > > Everything’s fine until it’s not. And then everything goes to hell. > > — Doug Erwin, paleobiologist, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural > > History > > > > > > > > ---- > > General information and guidelines for posting: > > https://moumn.org/listservice.html > > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > > > During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social > > distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. > > > > ---- > > General information and guidelines for posting: > > https://moumn.org/listservice.html > > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > > > During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social > > distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. > > > > ---- > General information and guidelines for posting: > https://moumn.org/listservice.html > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social > distancing, and continue to bird responsibly. --Judy Chucker "...The authors calculated that being around fourteen additional bird species provided as much satisfaction as earning an additional $150 a month." ---- General information and guidelines for posting: https://moumn.org/listservice.html Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social distancing, and continue to bird responsibly.
