F. Robert Blush

Bob Blush was proud to be a Denver Native, born to Frank L. and Marie F. Blush. His father's family owned the Sells Floto Circus and as a small child he fondly remembered watching them practice on the trapeze set up in his grandparent's backyard in Denver. They even had him on the trapeze.

He was an accomplished drummer playing with many of the Big Name dance bands. He always loved music and would play anytime he had the chance. He was privileged to play at Elitch's Trocadero ballroom. Most recently he was playing with the Praise Band for the United Methodist Church in Westminster.

He joined the Navy 2 months before his High School Graduation. He proudly served as a radar man on the USS Belleau Wood in the South Pacific. He then went to work as a driver for Greyhound Bus Lines, from which he retired after 30 years. He was a driving instructor for Greyhound and earned a special honor while working for them.

One time he flew to Mexico in a small plane where they rented motorcycles to tour on. He enjoyed the trip so much that he returned home to Denver took flying lessons, earned his private pilot's license and bought the first of the 3 motorcycles he owned. Selling the last motorcycle only when his teenage son started showing an avid interest in riding it.

After retiring from Greyhound, he traveled the US and Canada extensively in a motor home. He also took square dance lessons and danced with the Scuffed Shoes square dance club for 20 years. He traveled to Europe 3 times for bicycle tours in the Netherlands, Germany , and Denmark. His final trip to Europe was a riverboat cruise that he thoroughly enjoyed. He also cruised through the Panama Canal. the Caribbean, and to Alaska.

For the last several years he spent his winters at Adobe Wells in McAllen Texas, where he could walk across the street to one of the two golf courses where he enjoyed playing golf. He made many special friends there. Their Texas home was on a corner and he was very happy sitting on the porch talking to all the neighbors passing by.

Bob was an avid outdoors man, he loved fishing, golfing, camping and hunting deer with his father-in-law in Howard, Colorado. He had many deer hunting stories, all of them true. He once helped kill a marauding bear and the bear skin has hung in his den, never being allowed to touch the floor; even to take a picture of his baby son on it.

Bob was a member of the Elks Lodge 2227.

He was a devoted husband to his wife Yvonne. They were to celebrate their 48th wedding anniversary on June 15.

He dearly loved his family and was very happy when his son Frank joined Greyhound and they worked together. He was proud of his son Jim's chosen profession and kept a picture of him in his uniform beside his bed and in his wallet. He was never happier than when his son Jeff graduated with honors from aviation training and received his A & P License. He always supported his daughter, Leslie, in her quest to work in untraditional jobs. He even relented and taught her how to drive her truck with a 20ft camping trailer attached. He doted on all his grandchildren and then loved to see their children. He had 5 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren and another one on the way.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to the Leukemia Society or the Diabetes Foundation.

He was never happier than when his family was with him - and he left this world surrounded by their love.