This week the United Linen family lost a great man. 27 year UL veteran Robin Black passed away this last Tuesday after a long, hard fight with cancer.
Robin and I shared an office space together and since his first diganosis with cancer, I watched a good friend put up the fight of his life.
Many of you reading this might have known Robin during his illustrious career. For those of you who never go to meet him, I wish I could fix that. You would have gotten a big kick out of him. Robin has friends all over...at work, in his neighborhood, and in all the businesses he helped United Linen & Uniform Services be a part of.
Yesterday we attended Robin's funeral. In tribute to Robin, the route drivers drove their trucks in a processional to the church. Those guys made Robin proud. Several of us got to speak of our memories of Robin and we all laughed and cried. It was a great memorial service and helped those in attendance remember the Robin we all knew before he became sick.
Below is a couple of videos I took of the trucks going by as well as a tribute video we put together for the family.
ULTV: Robin Black Tribute from United Linen on Vimeo.
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I umpired a game once with Robin. It is still the only known game in the history of baseball in which every single call was indisputably correct. I was the tournament director and Robin was the umpire coordinator. I would set up a shelter, which we called the umpire state building, and we would sit around between ball games and tell stories. All the stories were true. However, more exaggeration would enter with each telling. Miss those days.
Posted by: John Wheelock | July 22, 2011 at 02:12 PM