Robert H. Kase

Visitation: Friday 4 to 8 PM

Services: Saturday 10 AM

Robert H. Kase, 78, of Newburgh, IN, left on his final journey, a cosmic one, August 9, 20ll. He was born June 1, 1933, to Margarite and Harold Kase in Rochester, NY, with wanderlust in his genes. He grew up in Lima, NY. As soon as a driver's license was in hand, he began a lifetime love affair with the open road transporting horses from downstate NY to Maine lumber camps. Then the Adirondack mountains called & he answered by enrolling in NY State Ranger School at Wanakena. After graduation Uncle Sam invited him to the Korean conflict but, his mother prayed him to Germany where he served two years in the Army of Occupation traveling the continent by jeep and train when off duty. Then it was off to Niagara University and the opportunity to see eastern Canada between full time work and study. He began his professional life with Moore Business Forms, then went to graduate school at IU. From there it was Metropolitan Life, Delco Remy, Producto Tool & Die, and finally to Amp, Inc, where he worked in industrial sales and as market manager for 31 years. The first four took him throughout PA, NY, and OH. AMP led to IN, PA, and NM. At a seminar in the 90s he described his territory in the southwest as being three miles deep and 1500 miles wide Once his colleagues in Mexico realized his name in German meant cheese they dubbed him "Roberto Quesadilla" and he was greeted as such from Matamores to Tijuana, con gusto. He thoroughly enjoyed the people he met and the places he went. His love for traveling took him and his wife, Dolores (Gocella) from British Columbia to the Dutch West Indies, Nova Scotia to the tip of the Baja Peninsula and 40 states in between. Europe called multiple times and they traveled there, delighted in its diversity and, especially, in its people. Bob served on the Newburgh Plan Board in the early 70s and was co-chair of the third Newburgh Fest which he and Marcia Yockey "advertised" by careening through town in a pickup. Bob drove while Marcia urged the townsfolk via bullhorn "Y'all come on down to the riverfront, y'hear?" He gladly followed in his father's (NY) footsteps by serving on the Ohio Township Library Board. Another close to his heart was Saint John the Baptist's Cemetery Board. He was preceded in death by his parents and brother, David. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Dolores, daughters, Kathryn Kase (Jeff Cohen), Houston, TX, Michele (Greg) Merriman, Newburgh, IN, sons, Andrew (Kathy) Kase and Matthew (Kristi) Kase , both of Evansville, IN, sister, Mary Alice Canaday, Detroit, MI and brother, Richard Kase, Athens, PA, six grandchildren, two great- grands, and multiple nieces and nephews. Grateful thanks to Deaconess Gateway and Specialty Select Hospitals, and Charlier VNA Hospice. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, August 13, 2011 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 625 Frame Rd. Newburgh, Ind. Rev. Fr. Joseph Ziliak will officiate and burial will follow in St. John's Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., Friday, August 12, 2011 at Titzer Family Funeral Homes ~ Simpson Chapel, 510 W. Jennings St. Newburgh, Ind. and Saturday, 9 a.m. to service time at the church. Donations may be made to Evansville Rescue Mission, 300 Martin Luther King, Jr, Blvd, Evansville, IN, the Salvation Army, 1040 N. Fulton Ave, Evansville, IN, Saint John the Baptist Foundation, 625 Frame Rd, Newburgh, IN, Charlier Hospice, VNA Plus, 610 E. Walnut St, Evansville, IN. Condolences may be made @www.titzerfuneralhomes.com.