Robert Seibert Obituary

Robert Franklin Seibert was born June 7th 1939 in Spokane Washington and passed August 5th 2025 at his home in Ignacio, Colorado. He was born to Rudolph and Joye Seibert (Workman). They moved to the state of Maryland where his Dad worked security in Washington D.C. At around age seven, his family moved to Grand Junction, Colorado. After his senior year, at Junction High, Robert and his friends Jim and Ed drove to Yellowstone National Park in his Model A with a case full of eggs. One account with his college friends, was where he shot 2 deer with one shot. Robert attended Mesa College, where he met his wife Patricia. Robert loved bowling where he and his friends lived at the bowling alley and won many types of awards. In 1960 they moved to Cortez, Colorado where his career started with the Cortez airport working for Frontier Airlines. On January 19th 1961 while living in Cortez, Robert was an eye witness to the "Felon 22" B-52 bomber that crashed near Monticello, Utah. The tail fin snapped off leading to the aircraft's disintegration and explosion. Robert experienced flaming pieces of the aircraft falling all around him. He was able to see contents inside a piece of the fuselage. Robert loved fishing and the state of Montana, where he spent a summer working at the airport in West Yellowstone. Robert and his family traveled hundreds of miles over mountain passes in a specialty 1960's jeep that had a Perkins diesel engine. They were always traveling to new places around the four corners and beyond leaving early in the morning and getting back late at night. In addition to work he sold Shaklee vitamins, CB radios, wood burning stoves and Rupp mini bikes and snowmobiles. He spent winters riding and racing snowmobiles. In his younger days, one of the snowmobile races he entered was Top of the World Championships where race car driver Al Unser was a participant. There was an accident on the track, the racers were not able to catch up, and Robert took first place. He loved antiques! Whether it was visiting antique shops, taking his model A's and 1947 Mercury to car shows, or running his flywheel engines at fairs and engine shows. He owned many, restored them and rebuilt magnetos for individuals. He and Patricia used the old motors to churn ice cream to give away at antique engine shows. He was very mechanically inclined where he built and made parts for his toy steam flywheel motors that he ran with compressed air. In his earlier years He taught the 4-H children to build small engines. Robert welded horseshoe creations, including animals and flowers. In 2023, Robert had the opportunity to use his Model A pickup and Coupe in a photograph by David Yarrow, a globally recognized fine-art photographer. He loved his Manx bobtail kitties. He chuckled when people would ask why he cut the tails off his cats. The older cat took her daily nap on his lap. Think he was taking his to… He was very kind and giving and always helped. He is survived by his daughters, Sandverae Seibert and Wendy Seibert (Park) and sons Steven Seibert and Randy Seibert. He has eleven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
May he rest in peace.