Robert W.Huntington III, MD died at home on February 22, 2015.
He was born to Dr. Robert Huntington Jr and Katherine Upchurch Huntington on March 12, 1937 in St. Louis, MO. From that time forward he never lived in one house more than four years until he moved to Wisconsin.
He graduated from Arvin High School in California in 1954 and was then sent for an additional year at Philips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. That year was horrible — owing to his fellow students — and quite educational — he learned how to study. There was a real difference between students at Arvin and those at Exeter: the Arvin kids were rougher and the Preppies were just plain meaner.
He majored in Chemistry at Harvard and graduated in 1959. He was helped hugely at Harvard by the Preacher to the University, Dr.Buttrick , and his associates. One day at the Protestant chapel he heard a most memorable sermon preached by a Rabbi; it featured two questions and two answers: 'Who is rich? He that is content. Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.'
He then went to medical school at the University of Rochester in upstate New York. His admission there was due in no small measure to mercy shown by assistant dean Lyonel Feininger of that school. He took a year out of medical school to study pathology at the University of Kentucky, and graduated from Rochester in 1964. Then followed two years of post MD training at Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Then came a most instructive year at the Cuyahoga County Coroner's office learning forensic pathology, no little wisdom, and a modicum of Yiddish from Dr. Lester Adelson.
A HUGE added benefit was meeting and marrying Donna Burgess, who is amazingly patient. Said benefit is multiplied multifold by daughters Rania and Cara.
By pre-arrangement, two years were spent in the US Air Force medical corps. When asked where he wished to go, he chose Alaska and so was sent to Florida. He then decided on an additional year of training at the University of Wisconsin. The plan was to stay that one year and then move on. HA! Forty + years later he is still in Wisconsin.
During those 40 + years he gradually did more forensic autopsies. His education grew, thanks to cases brought in from around the state by the Police, Crime Lab, Game Warden, and Coroner personnel who accompanied the cases. Collaboration and mutual education was a marvelously usual occurrence. Dr. Don Smiley DDS and Drs. Bennet and Eisenberg, anthropologists, added to the educational benefits.
In 2009 he was summarily shoved out of his job but given emeritus status. For a couple more years he worked for and with Dane and Waukesha counties. Then the ailments started accumulating."

His family adds:
While his work fascinated and consumed him, he also loved the respite of the farm, and feeding all creatures two and four legged. It was Bob who fed the milk to all the many spring goat kids. It was Bob who planted hundreds of flower bulbs each fall at homes of friends and family; he will certainly live on each spring when his daffodils bloom. It was Bob who nurtured a very large vegetable garden each year, so Donna could make tomato sauce and infernal relish for the extended family. After his full retirement, he revived his interest in ham radio and became active in Four Lakes Amateur Radio Club. On a daily basis he could be heard saying "This is KC9RLS" as he contacted people around the world on his radio. He loved volunteering to help at the area bicycle events, capping his years as a local EMT.
He is survived by his wife, two sisters, two daughters, two sons-in-law, four grandchildren, and many nieces, nephews, cousins, good friends, and multiple generations of intentional family. Agrace Hospice Care provided outstanding care and comfort to Bob and his family in the last months of his life.

His friends and family will remember him as an accomplished chef, an adventurous traveler, a voracious reader, a robust enophile, a gifted punster, and a generous host.

The Madison Religious Society of Friends will hold a memorial service on Sunday March 22 at 4 pm at The First Unitarian Society Church, 900 University Bay Drive, Madison, Wi. No flowers please. Memorial gifts in Robert's name may be made to WORT Community Radio station, Heifer International, Second Harvest, or the cause of your choice.