Robert ''Bob'' Lindveit, 93, passed peacefully January 27, 2026. Bob was born in Mineola, New York March 16, 1932 to Francis Elliott Lindveit and Gus M. Lindveit. His family moved to Lake Jackson when he was a young boy. Bob's father worked for Dow Chemical Company. A fond family story is that his family had a horse, milk cow, and chickens in their backyard in residential (Jasmine Park area today) Lake Jackson. Bob rode his horse, Gotch, to school until he started high school.

Bob graduated from Freeport High School in Freeport in 1950. Bob graduated from Texas A&M University with a Mechanical Engineering Bachelor's degree in 1954. He was in the Corps of Cadets all four years. Bob's attendance at the 50th Anniversary Muster in 2004 had special significance for him and the family. Grandson Ricky was a TAMU Corps Cadet wearing Senior Boots at the same ceremony.

Bob was a First Lieutenant in the United States Army and was honorably discharged from the US Army Reserve in 1962. While on leave in New York City from his duty station in Detroit Michigan, he met the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. After a short whirlwind courtship, he asked her if she wanted to go to Texas as his girlfriend or wife. Winnie became Bob's wife December 17, 1955. After his discharge from active duty in 1956, they set up home in the Brazosport area.

Bob worked for Badische, later known as Dow-Badische as a mechanical engineer. Bob became an engineer with Dow Engineering & Construction Services (Dow E&CS) where he was an inspector. Bob's perception was that if a person was to do a job, it should be done correctly. He came by this attitude naturally via his grandfather Robert G. Elliott in New York. Bob was accountable to the company to ensure the plant was a safe place to produce products and to work. Bob eventually retired from Dow E&CS at the age of 51 in 1983. Legend has it that when he asked for a retirement package, the company didn't want to give him one. He reviewed the retirement offer and decided that he and Winnie could live comfortably within those means.

Bob had remained a resident of Lake Jackson until the late 1960s when he moved to Oyster Creek to raise his young family and to be closer to the water. He designed and had built a very efficient family home. His boat, the Windy Gale III, moved to Oyster Creek with the family.

Bob and Winnie were very active members of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary, even as a young couple. They taught Safe Boating classes. Over the years Bob rescued many boats in the local waters off Freeport in the Gulf of Mexico. Through his work in the Coast Guard Auxiliary, Bob was asked to help as a member of Homeland Security team with debris cleanup from the NASA space shuttle Columbia accident in 2003. With his Homeland Security authorization, Bob patrolled many LNG ships in our waterways. He was still called upon for new member indoctrination even though Bob was retired from the Coast Guard Auxiliary. He continued to be a salt water fishing enthusiast.

Known by some as ''Fisherman Bob,'' he would fish Christmas Bay for redfish primarily. His mantra was ''fish for what you need and keep 'em legal.'' He would harvest the oysters he needed for a meal. Bob loved to fish. Until about a year ago, he would launch his own boat, cast for his bait, and fish alone. In recent years, Bob cooked fish on the half shell on a grill.

Retirement afforded Bob the opportunity to pursue his love of life on the water more thoroughly and to develop at least one new hobby - gardening. This opportunity arose because early in retirement he decided to tell Winnie how to have a more efficient home operation. Bob quickly realized he would never make that mistake again when Winnie told him he had better find something else to do. So, being the wise man that he was, he took up gardening. Over the years, his gardens provided much produce for both the table and the freezer. His last garden in 2025 only contained tomatoes.

While taking care of Winnie in her final years, Bob developed some structured and strategic routines in his life. This was much more obvious after Winnie passed in 2008. He eventually had a meal plan. He often declined other home cooked meals and leftovers because to use them interfered with his meals in the freezer. One constant was Sunday breakfast (bacon, eggs, and toast) and Sunday lunch (steak). The last year found Bob cooking his rare steak in a sous vide instead of on the grill. Lunch was his main meal of the day and always included a salad with blue cheese dressing. Generally evening meals were cheese and crackers. On his routine visits with Gus, their evening snack/meal evolved from stove-top popcorn to fresh tomatoes slices with cheese and venison sausage. Gail kept him supplied with homemade cookies for his 2 cookies-a-day treat.

Bob quit smoking when he retired. Legend also has it that there were days when Winnie and Gus wanted to tie Bob down to make him smoke because he was a ''bear.'' Thankfully that period did not last long. Quitting smoking was just one example of Bob's beliefs that if you put your mind to something, you will accomplish it.

Bob was not a big demonstrative emotional person. He has an exceptional family filled with much love and respect. He was very proud of his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. This pride went from education, careers, sports, and other extra-curricular and life activities. Bob was subtle with his humor. Once you got to know him, you understood his humor. Bob never had an ill word to say of anyone even when some may say it could be warranted.

For years Bob and Winnie were very active in the Brazoria County Republican Party. He was very much a conservative. He served as the Brazoria County Republican Party Chairman.

Throughout out his adult years, he and Winnie enjoyed interacting with friends while playing bridge, cribbage, dominoes, or canasta. Grandson Ryan was always up for a challenge. As a youngster, Ryan studied the play of the adults playing cribbage on his first trip to Port St Joe in Florida. The adults were very impressed after they agreed to let him play with them. Bob beamed!

The Lindveit-Elliott family reunions began in 1977 with the 50th anniversary celebration for his parents hosted by Bob and Winnie. The first official reunion was in 1978 and still continues biannually. Bob and Winnie hosted two at their home in Oyster Creek. After retirement on a return driving trip from a reunion in New England, they were having fishing adventures down the east coast. Someone mentioned Cape San Blass in Florida as having great fishing. Say no more. They made the stop on their continued trip home. The love of scalloping and Presnell's Camp Ground in Port St Joe began. They made annual summer trips for the rest of Winnie's life. Bob went a few more years but eventually decided it was time to relinquish this pleasure. His children and their families fell in love with scalloping and Port St Joe as well. Bob had quite an expansive ''family'' at the campground.

Bob was introduced to the sport of dog showing by his sister Pat. Being Norwegian, the only logical dog for Bob was the Norwegian Elkhound, a majestic dog. Bob showed his first dog, Njord. Showing dogs became a family affair. Bob and Gail showed dogs for 15 years, with Gail showing for other people as well. Bob's favorite dogs were Njord and his last, Dusty.

During Bob's 90th birthday celebration, Brigid recorded her ''interview'' with ''Dadum,'' as he was known to grandchildren. The entire family and some friends sat around engrossed in his tales. It was a great Lindveit family history lesson. The grandchildren and great-grandchildren continued the practice of recording Bob's accounts of his life.

Bob is survived by children Gus Lindveit (Ruth) and Gail Roberts (David); grandchildren Brigid Gibson (Brian), Ryan Lindveit, Ricky Roberts (Leslie), and Eric Roberts (Nikki); great-grandchildren Kendall, Grant, Bentley, and Bryant Roberts; sister Fain Ney (Jack); and numerous multi-generation cousins.

Bob was preceded in death by the one and only love of his life, Winnie Kuzmeskas Lindveit; his parents, Gus Lindveit and Frances Elliott Lindveit; and sister Pat Lindveit.

Services are at Lakewood Funeral Chapel Saturday, January 31. Visitation is 12:30 pm, funeral is 2pm with burial following in Restwood Cemetery. Pallbearers are Brigid Lindveit Gibson, Ryan Lindveit, Eric Roberts, and Ricky Roberts. Honorary pallbearers are Bentley Roberts, Bryant Roberts, Kendall Roberts, and Grant Roberts.