- Date Of Death: July 21, 2013
- State: Maine
Robert Joseph Hoy
July 21, 2013
FREEPORT – Robert Joseph Hoy died Sunday, July 21, 2013, at Gosnell Hospice House in Scarborough after a long illness lived with courage and grace. He was 75.
Bob was born in Indianapolis, the son of Mary Frances Orendorf and Walter Hoy. He attended school in Dayton, Ohio, and was a graduate of the University of Dayton. He did graduate work in theology at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and completed his master’s degree at St. Louis University. He and his wife, Mary Ann Collins Hoy, were married in 1969 and moved to Maine in 1977.
Bob taught high school English for 54 years in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maine. He retired from Brunswick High School in 2000. He considered teaching a vocation and loved almost every minute of time spent with students. He joined the Brunswick faculty in 1980 and served as the speech and debate coach until retiring. Speech and debate was a passion of Bob’s and he took real pleasure in the accomplishment of his students, who competed on the national level every year he coached. He was recognized by the National Forensic League as a double diamond coach and was chosen Debate Coach of the Year by his peers in the Maine Forensic League.
Bob was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brunswick and was active in diocesan life for many years as a member of the Committee on Holy Orders and as a discernment group facilitator.
