Obituary: Bob Long

Meeker resident Bob Long, 86, passed away July 15, 2009, at Pioneers Hospital following a four-month battle with lung cancer.
Robert LeRoy Long was born Aug. 31, 1922, in Stratton, Colo., the youngest child of Ray and Rowena (Cline) Long. He spent his early childhood on the eastern slope of Colorado with his family, then moved to Fruita, Colo., in 1934. He attended high school at Champion, a Seventh Day Adventist boarding school in Loveland.…