Robert Anthony Kwalik, 68

October 08, 2016

I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadows-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been. Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair. I sit beside the fire and think of how the world will be when winter comes without a spring that I shall ever see.
For still there are so many things that I have never seen; in every wood in every spring there is a different green. I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and people who will see a world that I shall never know. But all the while I sit and think of times there were before, I listen for returning feet and voices at the door. J.R.R. Tolkien
Robert Anthony Kwalik, 68, of Lancaster passed away Saturday, October 8, 2016 at Hospice & Community Care in Mount Joy. He was the husband of Dell Lynn (Simmons) Kwalik to whom he was married 29 years.
Born August 12, 1948 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania he was the son of the late Bernard and Margaret (Bechstein) Stetzer. He graduated from Wendell Wilkie High School in Elwood, IN and graduated with a teaching degree in mathematics and industrial arts from Ball State University, Muncie, IN. He taught for several years at North College Hill High School in Cincinnati, OH. He also worked for real estate developers Beddinghous and Young and was instrumental in the construction of Four World Apartments. He retired from Giant Food Stores in Centerville, PA after 23 years of service.
His hobbies included collecting American Flyer trains, working on vintage electronics, woodworking and remodeling his home.
Surviving is his wife, Dell Lynn and his son and family Christopher Miller (Marie) and their children Aislinn Miller of Dover-Foxcroft, ME, Maren Miller (fiance’ Tyler Havice) of Columbia, PA, Sahara McGrath-Miller of Marietta, PA; one great-grandson Tyler Blake Havice; one sister Marie Ann Chapman (Thomas) of Lancaster and one brother William Paul Kwalik (Trudy) of Anderson, IN.
In keeping with Robert Anthony’s wishes there will be no public services. Interment will be private in Wayside Presbyterian Church in Landisville.