Robert Lawrence Pence died at home in Sandpoint, ID, on July 13, 2013 from cancer. Bob was born November 26, 1945, in Spokane, WA to Lawrence and Christine Pence. He attended Lewis and Clark H.S. (Spokane) until his senior year and graduated from New Mexico Military Institute, Whitman College and the University of Washington, earning a degree in Comparative Literature. He honorably served in the U.S. Army Reserve. Bob married Shirley Kolm in 1980 and the couple served together in the Peace Corps in St. Vincent, West Indies, and raised two sons, to whom Robert was devoted. Bob worked as a commercial fisherman, advertising writer, construction scheduler, Alaskan outfitter, boat builder, landscaper, and in human services for the City of Seattle. He retired to Sandpoint Idaho where Bob belonged to the Newport/Priest River Rotary Club. At time of his death, he was working on an anthology of poetry by Native American writer Earl Thompson. He was a writer, reader, conversationalist and independent thinker. He cared most about his family and the less fortunate. Surviving is his wife Shirley, two sons, a sister and brother.