Obituary: Robert ‘Bob’ Francis Sullivan, 66, Germantown, Tenn.
Robert “Bob” Francis Sullivan, 66, of Germantown, Tenn., died peacefully on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015, with his loving wife, Paula Susan Sullivan, standing prayerfully by his side.
ROBERT FRANCIS ‘BOB’ SULLIVAN
He was born Feb. 4, 1948, in New Haven, Conn. to Eugene Patrick Sullivan and Henrietta Pigott Sullivan. He was the brother of Eugene Patrick Sullivan Jr., Margaret Mary Sullivan, John Thomas Sullivan, William James Sullivan, Michael Pigott Sullivan, and Kathleen Marie Sullivan (deceased).
He graduated from Southern Connecticut University and joined the U.S. Air Force where he piloted KC-135s. He later flew for the Air National Guard in Columbus, Ohio. He started at Federal Express in 1980 where he flew the Falcon, the 727, the DC-10, and the Airbus. He enjoyed racquetball, competing in the 2013 Senior Olympics, golf, cycling, participating in the Dempsey Cancer Challenge, scuba diving, and mountain climbing, conquering the Colorado fourteener Long’s Peak. He was a volunteer for Missionaries of Charity and the local library bookstore, where he was voted Volunteer of the Year of 2014. He was a member of the Germantown Library Board.
Thanks to his sister Peg’s stem cell donation he was able to tenaciously battle multiple myeloma for 11 years.
He is survived by his wife, Paula Susan Sullivan; one daughter, Mary Elizabeth Sullivan; one son, Robert Christopher Sullivan; and one grandson Truman Sullivan Doyle.
The funeral Mass is 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015, at OLPH Church in Germantown, Tenn. His local funeral Mass is 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015 at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Howardstown.
In lieu of flowers, the family wishes that memorial donations go to UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, www.mdanderson.org/gifts. Please indicate the donation is for the Fredrick B. Hagemeister Research Fund.
We will miss his keen intelligence and Irish wit. In his words, “It’s too soon to panic.”
The Joseph L. Greenwell Funeral Home, 324 E. Center Street, New Haven, is in charge of the arrangements. Leave online condolences at www.jlgfuneralhome.com.
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