Born May 22nd, 1943, Camden, New Jersey - Died February 23rd, 2026, Toronto, Ontario

Bob Youtz died on February 23rd, 2026, at his residence in the Parkland Retirement Home, in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke. Son of the late Linn Edward Youtz and Catherine Mitchell (McKerracher) Youtz, Bob was born and christened, and received his early education, in Camden, New Jersey. He attended Drexel and Rutgers Universities, and moved to Oregon in 1964, where he married Margaret Louise Hurst in 1968. Bob and Louise moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1968 where their daughter Alexandria was born in 1970. In that year they moved to Toronto, where Bob resumed graduate studies at York University, and where both eventually held administrative positions with the Ontario government. Bob was a Director with the Ministry of Health, dealing with Home Care, and Louise worked in the Ministry of Social Services and later the Cabinet Office. Illness forced Louise’s retirement in 2011, and Bob retired in 2012. He cared for Louise devotedly until her death in 2016. Throughout the last decade Bob travelled, visited his family, cultivated his love of classical music, stayed fit, assisted his neighbours, and enjoyed the company of his friends, who gathered to celebrate his 80th birthday in 2023.

He is survived by daughter Alix and her partner Ric Bortolotti, his sister Betsy Rossberg, of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, his nephews Andrew and Timothy Rossberg, and other family in Pennsylvania and Tennessee He is remembered with affection by his canoeing friends, with whom he made many trips on the lakes and rivers of Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Yukon and North West Territories. His family and friends are grateful for the attention and comfort Bob received from Lourdes Hernandez, and the staff at Parkland, and for the assistance provided by Graham Richardson, to whom Bob assigned Power of Attorney for Personal Care, and who organized Bob’s support during the last two years of his life.

Visitation to be held at Turner & Porter - Butler Chapel, 4933 Dundas Street West, Etobicoke, on Monday, March 2, 2026 from 4-7 p.m.