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April 13, 1950 ~ March 31, 2024
Robert A. Perina, 73 passed into eternal life on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024 in Charlotte, NC. The loving and caring son of Alvin and Ethel Perina ( née: Donovan) Bob was born and raised in Castleton Corners, SI. He was a proud graduate of Port Richmond High School and Stoneybrook University graduating with a BS in Mathematics. After graduation, he worked for Royal Insurance Company in Manhattan as a Statistician, eventually relocating with them to Charlotte NC in 1986. Upon retirement, he was highly respected and he continued to work for them as a consultant. He studied Transcendental Meditation and this was an important part of his life.
Over the years he amassed many friends in many states. Bob enjoyed spending time with them talking about astronomy and politics, playing ball, traveling, watching movies, hiking, attending BBQs and Taco parties, attending concerts and listening to classical and oldies music such as the Moody Blues and reminiscing about the good times.
But one of Bob’s favorite interests was sports. Especially baseball which was a sport he and his father shared a strong interest in. His mind was an encyclopedia of stats on all things sports but especially baseball. His favorite teams were the Mets and the Boston Red Socks and the Jets. But he also enjoyed watching ice hockey and the Islanders.
He will be remembered as a very good and honorable man. Highly principled and always wanting what is fair and just for the average person. Always a Gentleman. Always kind hearted and concerned about others. If there was something he could do to help he would.
He is survived by many loving cousins and friends who were very Blessed to have shared in his life. He will be sorely missed.
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Service
Viewing
Cherubini McInerney Funeral Home
1289 Forest Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10302
Friday, April 5, 2024
9:00am - 11:00am
Service
Cherubini McInerney Funeral Home
1289 Forest Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10302
Friday, April 5, 202411:00am
Burial
Moravian Cemetery
2205 Richmond Rd, Staten Island, NY 10306
Friday, April 5, 2024
The Frankels says
Bob has been a good friend for over 50 years. We enjoyed the many hours he spent with us and our two boys. He was a kind and gentle person and will be sorely missed.
John DeMeo says
Bob and I would always talk music and he and I coached some of the girls softball teams at Royal. Always a nice guy.
gloria gene mcmillan says
My deepest sympathy for the loss of Bob. He truly was a very caring and kind man. He was a good friend to me in Charlotte, N.C. and we enjoyed many dinners together. I do remember his love of baseball and we went to a few local games in Charlotte. We both were in a small group of meditators in Charlotte in the 1980s all of whom were very fond of Bob. I kept in touch with him at Christmas and New year’s . He always remembered to call on my birthday.
I will miss talking to him very much. The world has lost a truly compassionate and wise being.
Many blessings to his family.
Paul Kleinman says
Bob was my longest standing friend for 50 years. We met in 1974 at the Staten Island “TM Program Center”, immediately bonded and quickly became devoted friends to one another playing basketball, sharing our passions for all things having to do with sports, we were both foodies, life long progressives, both very spiritual and had so many fantastic conversations. What am amazing man and such a dear friend!!! I LOVE YOU, BOB!!!!!!!!!!
Lisa Hagelthorn says
It was such an honor and privilege to have had Bob Perina as a good friend in my life for 26 years! He was such an honorable man in every sense of the word! His very nature was one of kindness, caring and compassion which are qualities we need more of in this world. He was always thinking of others. His passion for politics was because he wanted politicians and laws to be working for the good of all people.
I was with him the last 6 months of his life and it made my heart happy to do anything I could to help him. I always felt very comfortable being with him in his presence because of his good nature. I believe many people would not have been able to handle all of the challenges and difficult changes he endured for the past 10 months. That’s a testament to his good character that he handled it all with lots of patience, acceptance, courage and grace. He was a wonderful role model for us all of being a consistently good person no matter what life throws our way.
I think his parents are surely very proud of him! As they obviously did a wonderful job of raising him. Among his family members his Cousin Mary deserves so much praise and gratitude for all that she did for him these past 10 months. He referred to her as ‘his Angel’ and for good reason! She was there for him each and every day these past 10 months wanting to do all that she could to help him. She was there for me as well and I know I could not have had the emotional strength I needed at times when I became sad about his situation if it was not for Mary’s wisdom, strength, guidance, support and encouragement that she so generously shared with me. Good people are definitely in Bob’s family! In a word she was AMAZING!!
Bob thank you for being WONDERFUL you!! I don’t think I will be so fortunate to meet someone again with your good nature, your kindness, your caring, your loyalty and your good character. So many of us will be missing you here including me.
I will be thinking of you when I see applesauce in the supermarket, if Star Wars and/or Star Trek appear on my TV, if I hear anything about the Mets, when I eat blueberries ( his favorite fruit at Sunrise ), if I can muster the strength to go to the Planetarium without you and if I hear anyone say ‘pretty much’.
I hope and pray that you will be surrounded with so much peace, love and joy as you carry on in your new Heavenly home. And just know how grateful I am for your years of consistent friendship, how proud I am of how well you handled yourself during this difficult ordeal you experienced and how happy I will be to see you again with no wheelchair nor physical limitations. Stay happy and know that you are very loved my wonderful friend!