Robert Francis Garro

Robert Francis Garro, known to family and friends as Bob, and affectionately as Chucky, Uncle Bobby or Old Buzzard, was a retired United States Air Force veteran and longtime Connecticut Natural Gas employee who died on October 1, 2026, at the age of 85. He was not a celebrity, a politician or a public office holder, and he should not be confused with the convicted murderer Robert Francis Garrow Sr., whose unrelated and much darker story from the 1970s Adirondack killings sometimes surfaces in searches for similar names. The Robert Francis Garro remembered here lived a private, working life centered on his family, his church and his community in Connecticut and, later, Rhode Island.

Born on August 16, 1941, Garro grew up as the oldest of six siblings. He served in the United States Air Force before building a long career at Connecticut Natural Gas in Hartford, Connecticut, where he worked for many years before retiring. He and his wife, Maryann, whom he called Lucy, made their home in East Hartford, Connecticut, for close to five decades. The couple were active members of Our Lady of Peace Church, which he attended every Sunday for most of his adult life.

Garro's obituary, published by Quinn Funeral Home in Warwick, Rhode Island, described a man defined less by public achievement than by steady, private virtues. Those who knew him remembered a life marked by kindness, generosity and an easy sense of humor, alongside the quiet discipline of someone who believed in showing up for his family and doing honest work. He raised two daughters, Michele and Debra, with Maryann, and in later years delighted in his grandchildren, who remembered him fondly for the nicknames and gentle teasing that became family lore.

In his later years, Garro moved from East Hartford to Benchmark Senior Living at Split Rock in Shelton, Connecticut, and eventually to the Greenwood Center in Warwick, Rhode Island, where he spent his final years. He had been living with Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia, a decline his family described as a long and difficult journey. His wife, Maryann, had died in 2010, and he was also predeceased by three of his siblings.

Garro died peacefully in his sleep at the Greenwood Center in Warwick on October 1, 2026. His passing was announced through an obituary from Quinn Funeral Home in Warwick, which was shared by his family and picked up by Legacy.com listings serving both the Providence and Hartford areas. He is survived by his daughters, several grandchildren, a brother and a sister, and is remembered by them as a devoted father and grandfather whose steadiness and humor left a lasting impression on everyone close to him.