Robert Inskeep Rizer Jr. ’34

Bob Rizer, who once recalled a British lord's comment that the one thing that impressed him most about life was the brevity of it, died Feb. 1, 1996, of cancer. He was 84. He died two days before his and his wife, Donna's, 56th wedding anniversary. For the last 26 years, he and Donna lived in Florida, the last 17 on Sanibel Island.

Like his brother, Dean, Bob grew up in Minneapolis, (where Dean lives still) and worked there for General Mills, Inc., before WWII. From 1942-46 he served as a lt. commander in the Navy, mostly in the Aleutians. In 1969 he and Donna sold their house on Lake Minnetonka outside Minneapolis, bought a motor sailer in San Diego, and with the help of their son and a friend of his sailed through the Panama Canal to Florida.

Surviving, besides his wife, Donna Dickinson Rizer (Smith '36), are a daughter, Gretchen, a son, Robert III, and four grandchildren. To them we offer our sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1934