{"id":78636,"date":"2025-11-26T09:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=78636"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:03:44","slug":"cuerrier-robert-farmer-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/cuerrier-robert-farmer-bob\/","title":{"rendered":"CUERRIER, Robert ‘Farmer Bob’"},"content":{"rendered":"

(April 17 1947 – November 18 2025)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I am talking to you now from the Great Beyond, \u2018cause if you are reading this, I have passed on.<\/p>\n

I carry with me to eternity good family memories of an estranged yet devoted wife Susan and three fine kids I know mostly by their nicknames\u2026Yogi, Spike and Sprague.<\/p>\n

I was raised on a back road country farm \u2026a place where time was tethered. We had woodstoves and outdoor plumbing\u2026and that, it seems, defined me since I have lived traditionally on the land most of my life.<\/p>\n

Spent some time getting an education as a young man though, and a while teaching school but got restless.<\/p>\n

I went north into the bush off the Algoma Central Line and built log cabins on speculation \u2026started with old tools, a clunker canoe, a bucksaw and axe. This went along all right and the robust life agreed with me\u2026I learned how to walk a hard road down.<\/p>\n

After four years I tired of sleeping beside a stump, was bushed, so I headed downtown, built and operated three wilderness themed clothing stores, which were wildly successful. I was cool, a media darling, an entrepreneur, was said to have a genius for thematics and marketing\u2026 makin\u2019 way more money than I could spend on a Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The great recession of 1982 busted me and I went back to the bush to start over.<\/p>\n

The last forty years I have been homesteading here on Mockingbird Hill Farm. The Farm is a working horse drawn replication of a 1930\u2019s farmstead. It was really gratifying to see how the canvas I had painted lifted the spirits of all who came to visit the Farm.<\/p>\n

Homesteading is the most satisfying thing I have done in a lifetime. Sharing my love for the land with the community and being a touchpoint for educational, cultural and recreational values was the reason for keeping on with the Farm.<\/p>\n

Loved the lifestyle, wild flowers and horses and so I stayed here right till the end\u2026<\/p>\n

Arrangements entrusted to Arthur Funeral Home – Barton & Kiteley Chapel (492 Wellington Street East 705-759-2522). Memorial contributions made payable online or by cheque to A.R.C.H. would be greatly appreciated. Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.arthurfuneralhome.com for the Cuerrier family.<\/p>\n

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