Passed peacefully away at Chancellor Park, St. Johnís, on Friday, February 9, 2018, Robert (Bob) Doyle, aged 82, second son of the late Gerald S. Doyle and Marjorie (Mershon) Doyle. Also predeceased by his first wife Peggy (OíRourke) Doyle, stepmother Mary (Foley) Doyle, brothers Tom (Patricia), Charlie, Pat (Brenda) and Gerald (Bonnie), brothers-in-law Patrick OíFlaherty, Frank Gronich, Bud OíRourke (Josie) and Jim OíRourke, and his nephew Sean OíRourke. Leaving to mourn with loving memories, his wife Dorothy (Neal) Abery, his children Robert (Toni), Paul (Karen), Susan (Derek Layne), and Sara (Anthony Singh), his stepdaughter Jane Abery (Carl Quinlan) and his grandchildren Hayley Doyle (Tom Bigelow), Katie Peddle (Mitchell) and Jaime Doyle. Also leaving to mourn are his brothers John (Sandy) and Bill (Cindy), his sister Marjorie Doyle, and their families. As well, Bob leaves to mourn his sisters-in-law Ann OíRourke, Eileen Gronich and Elizabeth (Neal) Butler, and his brother-in-law and sister-in-law Bruce and Lavina Neal. Bob also leaves a large circle of nieces and nephews and other relatives and friends especially Carl Collins, Joy Tatham, Terry and Mary Corbett, Tracey and Terry Sullivan, Clyde and Sylvia Pretty, Rob Marshall, Elliott and Matthew Layne and Darrin Harding. Special thanks to the staff members at Chancellor Park for their compassionate care of Bob over the past two years. Bob was an expert on Newfoundland geography, having sailed around the coastline of Newfoundland with his father on the Miss Newfoundland throughout his childhood years. He was also an enthusiastic organizer of events for family and friends. At his request, Bob has been cremated. Visitation at Carnellís Funeral Home, 329 Freshwater Road, on Monday, February 12, 2018 from 2-5 and 7-9 pm. The funeral mass will take place on Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at 9:30 am from St. Pius X Church, 16 Smithville Crescent. Flowers are gratefully accepted. Donation in Bobís memory can also be made to the Canadian Diabetes Association. To send a message of condolence or to sign the memorial guest book please visit www.carnells.com.

When I reach that last big shoal
Where the ground
swells break asunder,
Where the wild sands
roll to the surge's toll
Let me be a man and take it
When my dory fails to make it.

Take me back to
that snug green cove
Where the seas roll up
their thunder
There let me rest in
the Earth's cool breast
Where the stars shine
out their wonder
And the seas roll up their thunder.
-Otto P. Kelland