Prior to that short time away, he lived the last 30 years of his full life in Packwood with his beautiful wife Jean. They were married for 70 years.
Bob grew up in the mid-west where he worked on the family farm.
As soon as he could, he enlisted in the United States Army and was sent to Germany in combat duty in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded the Purple Heart for injuries sustained in that battle during WWII.
After the war ended, Bob went to Washington state and worked on a ranch in Eastern Washington. While there, he met and married the love of his life Jean Bostic.
They moved back to the mid-west for a time but knew that someday they would return to his beloved Washington state.
They received a call from Bob's brother one night that the US Forest Service in Randle was hiring. It didn’t take them long to sell their home in Illinois and move out to a new life together. They have never been sorry for that decision.
Bob is survived by his lovely wife, Jean, and four children, William Eldon Tapscott, of Chehalis, Janice McVey, of Raymond, WA, Carolyn Sue Rossell, of Phoenix, AZ. and Victor Robert Tapscott, of E. Wenatchee, WA.
Bob is also survived by 39 grandchildren and many great children.
There will be no funeral service and upon his wishes was cremated and will have his ashes spread during a memorial service this fall at his favorite spot, Cat Creek guard station above Randle, where many times he told us, “I would eat my lunch with the deer.” He would turn off the road grader and here they would come, curious and unafraid. He worked maintaining the logging roads for the Gifford Pinchot National Forest for 10 years.
Bob is so loved by his wife and family, he will be missed and never a day go by that a child or a grandchild will bring up a memory to share. Just the other day his grandson Eric said, ”Grampa was the best cowboy, he always wore a white hat”, and his son Vic exclaimed...” not only did he wear the white had, he Was the White hat”!
Bob was a patriot and a man of integrity, and dignity and his memory will forever be in our hearts.
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