Robert T. Charters

Services for Robert Troop Charters, Jr., 91, of Mentor, will be at 6:30 PM on Thursday, February 19, 2015 at Mentor United Methodist Church, 8600 Mentor Avenue, Mentor.

The family will receive friends from 3-6:30 PM on Thursday, February 19, 2015 at the Church.

Mr. Charters passed away Sunday, February 15, 2015 at Hospice House in Cleveland.

Born July 7, 1923 in Pittsburgh, PA he has lived in Mentor since 1970.

He was a member of Mentor United Methodist Church where he founded the Charter Members Men’s Chorus 20 years ago. He was a World War II Army Air Corps veteran and an avid golfer.

Mr. Charters was employed as a manufacturer’s representative.

Survivors are his children, Robert T. (Joy) Charters, III of Winchendon, MA, Christine Lee of Mentor and Rebecca (Bob) Piriczki of Euclid; step-children, Sherry (David) Herbert, Grant (Susan) Barlow and Rae Ann (Bryan) McNeilly; grandchildren, Robert “Rip” (Phyllis) Charters, IV, Ross (Moki Brown) Charters, Robert “Bradley” (Melanie Niehus) Sells, Abbie Kakias and Megan (Eric) Stuckert; step-grandchildren, Bea Donna Barlow, Sherry Steadman, Jamie Steadman, Katherine McNeilly, Sean McNeilly and Monica McNeilly; great-grandchildren, Madelyn, Makenzie, Reed, Saoirse, Farishta, Amaya, Kiley Rose, Mika and Bentley.

He was preceded in death by his former wife, Abbie (Charters) Myers in 2009 and his second wife, Beatrice T. Charters in 2005. His granddaughter, SSgt. Melissa Kakias, USAF, step-daughter, Saundra Steadman, parents, Robert T. Sr. and Agnes (Schreiner) Charters and sisters, Martha Jean Campbell, Anne Smith and Mary Elizabeth McMunn are also deceased.

In lieu of flowers, the family encourages contributions to Mentor United Methodist Church, Music Fund, 8600 Mentor Avenue, Mentor, OH 44060-5874.