Robert James Vance
of Austin, Texas, passed away on (mm-dd-yyyy), at home, with his family near.
Born in Waco in 1954, Robert taught fourth grade at Barton Hills Elementary for thirty-one years, where three decades of students learned long division, and that being kind counted for more. He kept a garden that embarrassed the neighbors, restored a '68 Ford he never quite finished, and read every evening in the good chair by the window.
He is survived by his wife, Ellen; his children, Sarah and Daniel; and four grandchildren, who called him Pop.





