Robert (Bob) Lowell Niswonger, Jr, age 79, of Troy, OH went home to be with the Lord on August 4, 2025. Bob was born in Greenville Ohio on June 6, 1946, to parents, Robert Lowell Niswonger, Sr. and wife Agnes C. (Carpenter) both preceding him into God's realm. He was also proceeded in death by his sister Carol Marie Niswonger.

He is survived by wife Mary Ann (Erwin): son Theodore (Ted) Niswonger, his wife Valerie (Seus), their daughter Mena Bella and daughter Shelley Arnett (Niswonger), and her husband John Arnett: brother Gary Keith Niswonger, his wife Ok Chu and their daughter Jeannette.

Bob graduated from Westmont high school in Hollandsburg, Ohio in 1964. He then attended General Motors Institute for two years while working at Delco Moraine in Dayton Ohio between semesters. He then spent two years at the College of Applied Science in Cincinnati (for an Associate Degree in Mechanical Engineering).

He was going to serve in the army during the Vietnam war, but was rejected for a history of asthma, thus was able to finish college.

He married the love of his life, Mary Ann Erwin, on April 6, 1968, and with her, raised two wonderful children, Ted and Shelley.  He dearly loved his granddaughter Mena and cherished the times spent with her.

He attended church for many years, serving as greeter, choir member, trustee, and announcer for a religious television program (Light For Man Today).

Work experience consisted mostly of technical writing and illustration of assembly and maintenance manuals, doing that for fourteen years at Huffy bicycle company, three years at Hobart Brothers in Troy, and twenty-five years at Goodrich in Troy where he updated and wrote maintenance manuals for many of the Boeing and Airbus aircraft wheels and brakes. For 30 years, he did part time work at home as a second job, making drawing of patents for Monarch Marking (now Paxar).

He enjoyed fixing anything mechanical (cars, bicycles, sweepers, guns, plumbing, etc). He was an avid hunter of garage sales and flea markets for "good deals". Another area he enjoyed was realizing that God exists in the design of this world and all life forms. He marveled that the first microscopic cell of each living thing has to contain the instructions for construction of the entire fully-grown living thing.

Bob believed that God gave us life, however short, on this earth, and sent Jesus to give us a way to gain eternal life in heaven, a wondrous new realm. Bob recently talked with a man that had an out-of-body experience when he died, and was revived on the operating table. The man said that while dead, he had traveled to a different realm and wanted to stay in that place because of the wonderful feeling of no more pain and of soaring joy. Bob just joined God and Bob's family and friends already there.

Bob wanted everyone to know this: THANK GOD FOR THIS WONDERFUL WORLD AND FOR LIFE!!!

The family would also like to express their deep gratitude to Heartland Hospice for their care and support for Bob, especially for his nurse Talia Rudy.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Sunday, August 24, 2025 at Baird Funeral Home in Troy.  The family will receive friends from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM, with a service starting at 4:00PM.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Miami County Animal Shelter or The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.  Friends may express condolences to the family through www.bairdfuneralhome.com.

Miami County Animal Shelter
1110 North County Road 25A, Troy OH 45373
Tel: 1-937-332-6919

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
PO Box 5014, Hagerstown MD 21741