Robert E. Coleman

Coleman, Robert E. age 60 passed away on May 2, 2010 at his home in Monroe after a brief but debilitating battle with cancer. Bob born in Whitestone, NY has lived in Monroe for the past twenty-five years. He graduated from Lowell Tech University in 1973 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering. He spent the first twenty years of his career as a structural engineer with Crawford & Russell/John Brown in Stamford ending as the Chief Structural Engineer. Since 1993, he has owned and operated a distributorship for Pepperidge Farms in the Waterbury area. Bob's life centered around his family, his beloved wife Barbara of thirty-six years and his three children, Jennifer, Jeffrey and Timothy. He is survived by his wife and children, brother, William T. Coleman and his wife Maryellen of Shelton, a niece Kelly Schubert Coleman and her husband Jon, and a nephew William.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Thursday, May 6th at 12:00 noon at St. Jude Roman Catholic Church, 707 Monroe Turnpike Monroe. Interment will follow in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Daniel’s Farm Road Trumbull. Calling hours will be held Wednesday, May 5th from 4-8 at the Spadaccino and Leo P. Gallagher & Son Community Funeral Home, 315 Monroe Turnpike Monroe. For further information please visit www.spadaccinofuneralhome.com.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to St. Vincent's Medical Center Swim across the Sound Foundation (http://www.swimacrossthesound.org/) in an effort to support research and development to fight this insidious disease. May he rest in peace.