Robert John Ginnane

Robert John Ginnane departed this life on September 30, 2025. He was born in Queens, New York to Robert J. Ginnane and Marie Louise Rickert Ginnane on June 11, 1946. Fairly soon the young family moved to Brookfield, Connecticut where they were one of the founding families in a small agricultural/religious community. Robert spent time cleaning goat pens as a toddler!

Robert graduated from St. Patrick's and George Catholic School, Yorktown Hts., NY where he was an outstanding student. His high school education was completed at Archbishop Stepinac H.S. in White Plains, NY. His youth activities were serving as altar boy, delivering newspapers, playing C.Y.O. basketball,and membership in the Boy Scouts. He began his college education at Princeton University and participated in one of the freedom summer student voter registration drives in the South. He met and married JuJu Nkrumah and after a short stay in Minnesota they raised their family in Brooklyn, NY, Yorktown Hts., and Denver, Colorado. Robert completed his college degrees at universities in Minnesota, New York, and Colorado. He was an elementary and middle school teacher with Denver Public Schools for most of his career, continuing to deliver papers in the early mornings prior to the start of the school day. After retirement he embarked on a second career as an RTD light rail driver. Robert carried off dressing well, enjoyed music and club dancing, practicing TaiChi, getting the family out to the mountains, and providing for his children and grandchildren.

Robert was preceded in death by his parents and four brothers, and his late wife Annette. He wik be missed by his children Tunde Ginnane, Kumbe Ginnane, Krizma Ginnane, Yasmeen Nkrumah-Elie, and Debra Lewis, grandchildren Savon, Krizma, Jasiri, Kai, Ayla, Marcelo, Xavier, Khalil, and Echo, three great-grandchildren Monroe, Milani, and Laila, and sister Mary Ginnane.