Obituary for Robert Ivan Crouse
Robert Ivan Crouse (1928-2022)
Born in Lilydale, just outside of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, to Ivan Crouse and Rita Lohnes, Bob passed away peacefully, surrounded by family on March 2, 2022, in Hamilton at the age of 93. He served as an officer in the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers, achieving the rank of Colonel. A second career at the University of Toronto followed. Bob and Lorraine retired to their large and beautiful garden in Kilbride, Ontario, spending hours nurturing a beautiful flower garden and a productive vegetable garden. They also had a well-trained crew of squirrels, paid daily in peanuts.
Bob went off to study engineering at the Nova Scotia Technical College at the age of 16 and then joined the Army. He met Lorraine in British Columbia and on his return from serving in the Korean War, they were married in Lunenburg in September of 1954, just in time to honeymoon with the winds of Hurricane Edna. Bob and Lorraine raised their family in Montreal, Whitehorse, Chilliwack, Ottawa, Victoria, Oromocto, Toronto, and Halifax. He had a solo posting on a peacekeeping mission in Egypt.
Bob will be missed by his children, Barbara Archibald (Greg), Diane Crouse (Oliver), Bruce Crouse (Beth) and Alison Porter (Andy), each born in a different city in Canada. Bob is survived by grandchildren Kathryn, Caroline, Hannah and Venus, great granddaughters Addison and Sawyer and great grandson Torin. Bob is predeceased by his wife, Lorraine (nee Bennett), granddaughter Christine Archibald, brother Harold Crouse, and sisters Dorothy Conrad and Pauline Naugler.
If wished, donations in Bob’s memory may be made to The War Amps.
Born in Lilydale, just outside of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, to Ivan Crouse and Rita Lohnes, Bob passed away peacefully, surrounded by family on March 2, 2022, in Hamilton at the age of 93. He served as an officer in the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers, achieving the rank of Colonel. A second career at the University of Toronto followed. Bob and Lorraine retired to their large and beautiful garden in Kilbride, Ontario, spending hours nurturing a beautiful flower garden and a productive vegetable garden. They also had a well-trained crew of squirrels, paid daily in peanuts.
Bob went off to study engineering at the Nova Scotia Technical College at the age of 16 and then joined the Army. He met Lorraine in British Columbia and on his return from serving in the Korean War, they were married in Lunenburg in September of 1954, just in time to honeymoon with the winds of Hurricane Edna. Bob and Lorraine raised their family in Montreal, Whitehorse, Chilliwack, Ottawa, Victoria, Oromocto, Toronto, and Halifax. He had a solo posting on a peacekeeping mission in Egypt.
Bob will be missed by his children, Barbara Archibald (Greg), Diane Crouse (Oliver), Bruce Crouse (Beth) and Alison Porter (Andy), each born in a different city in Canada. Bob is survived by grandchildren Kathryn, Caroline, Hannah and Venus, great granddaughters Addison and Sawyer and great grandson Torin. Bob is predeceased by his wife, Lorraine (nee Bennett), granddaughter Christine Archibald, brother Harold Crouse, and sisters Dorothy Conrad and Pauline Naugler.
If wished, donations in Bob’s memory may be made to The War Amps.