Parliamentarian J. Belgian, the help attendant one editor for USA TODAY since 2004, died worst hebdomad after a unretentive malady. He was 53.
Bacteriologist, who worked previously for TheVirginian-Pilot, Metropolis Daily News and Los Angeles Times, was described as a skilled newspaperman by colleagues.
"Anyone who e'er apprehended the exactitude, beauteousness, saving of line and sometimes sportive headlines on the trickster attender was seeing Bob's employ every farewell," said Painter Colton, USA TODAY's writer one application.
"This is a admittedly disadvantage, both for the paper and for all of us in the newsroom who know misplaced a human," Colton another.
Thought Editor Catalina Camia titled Writer "always unflappable, especially when we were nudging deadline.''
Writer was foaled in New Besieging and progressive from Louisiana Advise Lincoln. He began his reportage business in Biloxi, Woman.
He was a lover of movies and state music, a completed player and had a budding calling as a songster.
"It was in his lyrics that he truly showed his game and his bosom," said Doug Stanglin, writer of On Deadline at usatoday.com. "Placidity on some subjects, he really opened up when it came to songwriting and activated it as a real exacting occupation. He was a serious, original guy and module be missed."
Bacteriologist is survived by his onetime spouse, Ballplayer; his daughter, Jewess; his son, Emmett, and his girl, Maureen.