St. Augustine, Fla. – Robert W. Kaschub Jr., 67, of St. Augustine, Fla., passed away, March 1, after a courageous battle with leukemia.

He was born in Meriden, Conn., September 23, 1939, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Kaschub Sr. He graduated from Gorham High School, Gorham N.H., in 1957. A James Bowdoin Scholar, he graduated, cum laude, from Bowdoin College in 1961. He received a doctor of medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University, in Montreal in 1965. He also served in the United States Air Force in Omaha, Neb.

He married Mary C. Prince in 1965. After completing his residency at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, N.H., he moved to Skowhegan, where he had a private practice for many years. He later became a Locum Tenens doctor and traveled extensively throughout the United States serving in that capacity.

He is survived by his wife, Mary; and three children, Elizabeth Ferguson and her husband, David, of Sandy, Utah, Alan Kaschub and his wife, Michele, of Windham, and Tulie Kaschub and her husband, Scott Baldwin, of Roanoke, Va.; he is also survived by seven grandchildren, Anna and Sarah Ferguson, David, Kathryn and Daniel Kaschub, and Henry and Charlie Baldwin; he also leaves his mother, Agnes Kaschub Moore, of Auburn; a brother, William Kaschub and his wife, Mary Ellen, of Los Gatos, Calif.; a sister, Anne Dumont and her husband, Louis, of Lewiston, and several nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his father, Dr. Robert W. Kaschub Sr.; and a sister, Joanna Kaschub.