Bob Mosolf died on April 10th, at Riverside RMC, surrounded by his family. He was 67 years old.

He was born in Cando, North Dakota to parents Dederick and Darlene and older brother, Rick, who all preceded him in death. He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Celia; his daughter, Laura; his son, Jacob, and their spouses Dave and Lee; his grandchildren, Mason and Lily and step-granddaughter, Victoria; his special niece, Dawn and her daughter, Bryanna, and sister-in-law Shelby. He is also survived by numerous relatives and friends residing in England.

He joined the Navy immediately after graduating high school and served on the destroyer, USS Bausell, during the Vietnam War. After the war, while his ship was at port in Greece, he met and fell in love with a vacationing Celia. 6 months later they were married in Celia’s hometown of Rotherham, England. They started their married life in Norfolk, VA and would later be transferred to San Diego, Orlando and Charleston. After retiring from 20 years of service at his final duty station, Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, he started work for the Virginia Department of Forensic Science, and later returned to NWS Yorktown where he would work as a civil servant until being diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma in November of 2009.

He courageously fought the cancer with every treatment that was oered him, including a stem cell transplant, which more than doubled the time they initially gave him to live. He and Celia were avid travelers and journeyed together to England, continental Europe, Alaska…and wherever Jacob and Lee had moved to. He was an active member of the Universal Unitarian Fellowship of the Virginia Peninsula where he chose to worship on his Sundays. He was a volunteer at the Riverside Cancer Care Center and every Monday he welcomed patients to the care center with a smile, and was a member of the Riverside LLS support group there as well. He was also active in the Southeastern Virginia International Myeloma Foundation support group. Every year, he and Celia would fundraise and participate in the LLS Light the Night in memory of, and to honor their friends and celebrate their own courageous fight with blood cancers. He had recently joined his daughter’s best friend, Jennifer, to comfort Veterans in hospice, going above and beyond for those without family in the area.

The memorial date is dependent on the current quarantine and will be led by his friends at the Universal Unitarian Fellowship of the Virginia Peninsula in Denbigh. Updates will be provided as the time draws near.

In lieu of flowers, we are asking to please donate in his memory to the Southeastern Virginia Multiple Myeloma Foundation or to his LLS Light the Night group

Please visit:  Light the Night – https://pages.lls.org/ltn/va/hroads20/Mosolf or SEVA-seva.support.myeloma.org and click on the “10 to Win” link.

Cremation Society of Virginia-Newport News assisted the family with arrangements.