SHINKLE, Robert Thomas ("Bob"). Born October 12, 1916, Cincinnati, Ohio, son of Clyde Earl Shinkle and Carolyn Mildred Nixon Shinkle. Died November 9, 2013, Vancouver, British Columbia. He married Margery Joan Kneip of Albany, New York, on June 13, 1944; she died on May 17, 1991. He married Ann Isabel Kirkpatrick Carson of Vancouver, British Columbia, on October 7, 1994. He is survived by his current wife, Ann; by the children of his first marriage, John T. Shinkle of Old Lyme, Connecticut, Joan M. Shinkle of Santa Rosa, California, and James R. Shinkle, of San Antonio, Texas; and by four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. He will also be missed by Ann's three children, Christopher Carson, Joanna Carson and Kate Judge; and by Ann's six grandchildren and one great-grandchild, all of the British Columbia.

Shinkle graduated from Yale College (1938) and Yale Law School (1941). In World War II he served in the US Coast Guard in the Pacific theater. He practiced law in New York, NY, until 1948 when he moved to California. There he was a senior corporate lawyer and financial executive in the San Francisco area until retiring in 1984. At the Bank of America he served as Washington DC Representative and Head of the Northern California Trust Department. He also worked for World Airways, Crocker Bank and Visa.

His SF area civic activities included serving on the Board of Las Lomitas School District in Menlo Park, California and fund-raising for public television in San Francisco (KQED). He was a member of the St. Francis Yacht Club and the Berkeley Tennis Club. After remarriage in 1994 he moved to Vancouver to join Ann and the extended Carson family in Vancouver, becoming a permanent Canadian resident. He and Ann traveled extensively, especially to Europe and Asia, and continued as active tennis players at the Vancouver Lawn Tennis and Badminton Club until 2010.

Bob was an energetic man, both intellectually and physically, for all of his 97 years. His pursuits included tennis, sailing, model boat building and travel. He had endless curiosity. He read extensively, ranging from ancient history to scientific journals. He could, and did, engage in debate on almost any subject or issue. His sense of humor could be subtle or boisterous, and he enjoyed telling stories, true and otherwise. He maintained his fitness through regular exercise and won second place in the 2002 Canadian National Tennis Championship in the men 85-and-above division.
He shared his wisdom and guidance not only with family, but also with friends and colleagues, broadening and brightening many vistas. He had a strong sense of what was right, valued both performance and fairness, sought to meet high standards, and encouraged others to do the same.  He was loyal to those close to him, and freely gave comfort and support to friends and family in difficult times. He made a difference in this life.

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Bob understood understood and encouraged the value of education as a vital path to satisfaction in life.  He was the beneficiary of scholarships to obtain his education. The family suggests that donations in his memory could be made to either of these organizations to support students coming out of foster care whose outlooks could be greatly improved by education beyond secondary school:

The BC Federation of Foster Parents (Canada)

Foster Care To Success Sponsored Scholarship Program (USA)