Robert Lawrence Fitzpatrick was born on September 9, 1914, in Richmond. Indiana, the youngest of four children. He became captain of the football and basketball teams at Morton High School there. Bob was a member of the Honor Society and received his B.A. degree from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, one of the country's oldest institutions of higher learning. In 1937, he married his college sweetheart, Lilyann Page Faries, and began a four-year period serving as a high school teacher and coach in Little Rock, Kentucky. During World War II, he served as a regimental officer in the U.S. Navy physical fitness program. Then followed three decades of exceptional service with the Boy Scouts of America in Riverside, Auburn, Fresno, and San Mateo, California, as well as four wonderful years in Hawaii.

Bob and Page moved to Half Moon Bay in 1970 with their son, Mikel, who died in 1989. Their other two children, Charles and Linda Page, live in Auburn, California.  During the next two decades, they served as most valued and respected contributors to the spiritual and temporal work of the congregation.
The original solid-colored glass windows of the church were donated in the early days by those who financed the building of the structure. Most windows have brass plaques recording the names of these families. Beginning in 1978, it was agreed by church members that the windows should be replaced with stained glass artwork based on Methodist hymns.

Bob retired from the Scouts at the age of fifty-nine, and shortly thereafter took a stained glass class taught by Frankie Meyers in Half Moon Bay. He worked with the medium for a while and then was asked to make a window for the church by Thelma Whitelaw (now Joyner) in memory of her husband, Raymond Whitelaw, based on his favorite hymn, "Morning Has Broken". At first, Bob declined, but later relented.

According to his wife, Page, making the first window was difficult (it took sixty hours to create and seven and a half hours to install), and he vowed never to attempt another. But the importunities of the congregation won out. Over the next ten years, Bob made all the windows that now grace this historic church. At one point, the creation of the windows resulted in a complete painting of the church by Bob's son, Mikel, and grandson, Shawn, who felt that the exterior should be an attractive setting for the beautiful windows.

These stained-glass windows add immensely to the experience of worship at Community Methodist and express so beautifully the faith of the Fitzpatrick family and this congregation. In 1986, Bob made a twenty foot high stained glass window for the First Christ Church in Kewalo, Hawaii. This church is open air, and a dove flew into the church during the dedication service and perched on the Cross in front of the window! Visitors from near and far have marvelled at the beauty of these artistic creations. Bob died in 1994, shortly before he and Page would have celebrated their fifty-seventh wedding anniversary.
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