{"id":82828,"date":"2009-08-20T01:01:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T05:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=82828"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:15:21","slug":"turpin-alexander-robert-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/20\/turpin-alexander-robert-bob\/","title":{"rendered":"TURPIN, Alexander Robert (Bob)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1935-2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At home, surrounded by his family on Thursday, August 20 at the age of 74 years.<\/p>\n<p>Beloved husband and best friend of Sandra. Devoted father of Robert (Silvana), Alex (Susan), Tom (Juliet), and Keith (Jennifer). Loving grandfather of Tommy, Jake, Lucas, Haley, Michael, Erin, and Ryan. Brother of Betty (late Stan) Gjos, Barb (Frank) Nichols, and Yvonne (Danny) Smith. Brother-in-law of the late Bill Lamon (Betty Lou), Gloria Cook (Percy), Marilyn Yeoman (Dick), John Lamon (Joyce), and Heather Purdy (Walter).<\/p>\n<p>As a professional engineer, Bob began his career as a mine geologist at Algoma Ore (Wawa) and retired from Algoma Steel as vice-president of human resources.<\/p>\n<p>Other accomplishments include being team captain of the Provincial Mine Rescue Champions (1968), member &#8211; Michipicoten Board of Education, member &#8211; Sault College Board of Governors, governor &#8211; Laurentian University, chairman &#8211; American Iron and Steel Institute (Material Handling), and a member of the Regional Trillium Grants Committee.<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, he was chairman for the United Way Campaign, where he led the team to be first to raise over one million dollars in Sault Ste Marie.<\/p>\n<p>Friends may call at the Northwood Funeral Home and Cremation Services (942 Great Northern Road 945-7758) on Sunday, August 23, 2009 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral Mass to be held in St. Jerome\u2019s Church (26 Carmel Road East) on Monday, August 24, 2009 at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Entombment Holy Sepulchre Cemetery Mausoleum.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial donations made to the United Way or Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation would be appreciated by the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1935-2009 At home, surrounded by his family on Thursday, August 20 at the age of 74 years. Beloved husband and best friend of Sandra. Devoted father of Robert (Silvana), Alex (Susan), Tom (Juliet), and Keith (Jennifer). Loving grandfather of Tommy, Jake, Lucas, Haley, Michael, Erin, and Ryan. Brother of Betty (late Stan) Gjos, Barb (Frank) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2663],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 18:23:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82829,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82828\/revisions\/82829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}