Robert Enor Lundin

3-19-27 -- 3-14-17

Bob Lundin was born in Boston and raised in Medford by his mother, Effie Carlson Lundin, who graduated from the New England Conservatory to become a soprano soloist and long time piano teacher, and his father, Enor Edward Lundin, who trained as an architect at Harvard and taught mathematics at Boston English High School.

Bob was valedictorian of his Medford High School class (1945) and then joined the Navy, training as a radar technician until the war ended. He studied chemistry at Harvard, graduating in 1950, and went to graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving his PhD in chemistry in 1955.

After a short stint working for Texaco at their research labs in Beacon, New York, Bob returned to the Bay Area and spent the balance of his career doing nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy at the US Department of Agriculture Western Regional Laboratory. He retired in 1986 and went right on working in his lab for another twenty years.

Bob met Jane Magee at Cal; they were married in 1952 and she survives him, as do their daughters, Rebecca Jane Lundin and Susan Caroline Lundin Kaufman. He also leaves three grandchildren, Benjamin Robert Kaufman, David Cole Kaufman, and Margaret Mary Kaufman, and nieces Glenna Webster Etheridge and Kirsten Webster Griebel, and their family. His younger brother, Richard, died in 1959.

Music, reading, travel and photography were Bob’s avocations but most of all he loved his family. As his health declined that love was returned in the amazing care Rebecca gave him, with Susan’s help. The family is also grateful to Jennifer Cowan for her devoted assistance. We will all miss him so very much.

All who knew Bob are invited to a celebration of his life to be held at 3 pm on April 22nd at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley, 1 Lawson Road, Kensington, California. For directions please see UUCB. org.