Robert "Bob" F. Gallagher
Passed away December 18, 2014. A gathering of remembrance will take place at a later date. His ashes will be scattered at a later date in Colorado. Click on photo for more information.
Additional Info
Passed away:
December 18, 2014
Biographical Sketch:
Robert Frank Gallagher, 62, of Lincoln, passed away December 18, 2014.
He was born on July 25, 1952 in McCook, NE to Ella Ruth (Macy) and Robert Frank Gallagher.
Early in his career, he worked in food service in Lincoln and at National Crane in Waverly, Nebraska. Upon his move to Colorado, he continued to work in food service in the Vail, Beaver Creek, Avon, and Denver area. Returning to Lincoln in 2013, he worked in retail and food service.
He loved the mountains, was a reader and a quiet thinker with a kind soul.
Rest in Peace, Robert.
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The Stolen Child
Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berries
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand.
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim gray sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And is anxious in its sleep.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Away with us he's going,
The solemn-eyed:
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal chest
For he comes, the human child
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand
From a world more full of weeping than he can understand
William Butler Yeats, 1889
Visitation:
Cremation. No visitation.
Service:
A gathering of remembrance will take place at a later date. His ashes will be scattered at a later date in Colorado.
Memorials:
Memorials to People’s City Mission 110 Q, Lincoln, NE 68508.
Family Information :
Bob is survived by brother, Carl Andrew (Linda) Gallagher, Lincoln; 3 sisters, Roberta Ruth Lauderdale of Independence, MO, Frances Lee Ramirez (Oscar) of Thornton, CO, Stacie Lynn Bebber (David) of Edmund, OK; aunt, Frances Marian Mosher of Scottsbluff, NE. He is also survived by 3 nieces, 5 nephews, 1 great nephew, 3 great nieces, and many cousins. Preceded in death by his parents, sister Ella Bell Gallagher, nephew Charles Wade Comstock, brother in law Robert Steven Lauderdale.
Additional Info:
Funeral Home assisting Aspen Cremation & Burial Service, 4822 Cleveland Avenue, Lincoln, NE 68504
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