Robert Malatin

Dr. Robert M. Malatin, OD, 75, of Richmond, VA passed to his eternal home on July 15, 2022, in the York Hospital, York, PA, from cardiac complications. Robert was born May 16, 1947, the only son of the late Martin Paul and Margaret Olga (Babchek) Malatin.

Robert graduated from Southern College of Optometry in 1972 with a doctorates degree in optometry. By the time he retired in 2012 he owned three practices and had provided excellent and meticulous care to thousands of patients. He doted on his nieces and nephews and often said he lived vicariously through his sister’s children and the events in their lives. He loved words and had a photographic memory sharing history, trivia, and obscure facts in an engaging way. He was inducted into the VA Academy of Optometry in 1983 and elected President of the same in 2009.Robert was raised in a Catholic home. Later in life, he chose to make the Lord His Savior and was baptized on that confession in a Baptist church. He had a simple faith and died with that peace.

He was a loving brother to Francine (Greg, deceased) Molner and special uncle to Andrea (Brandon) Williams, Jared, Chloe (Asher) Hess, Hannah (Micah) Bullen, Ezra, Ruth Anna (Jubal) Beachy, Isaac, Simeon (Mary), Hope (Nathan) Bullen, and Joanna (Jamin) Beachy, and their families.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, July 21, 2022, at 3 PM in the Chapel of Thomas L. Geisel Funeral Home and Cremation Center, 333 Falling spring Rd., Chambersburg, PA , where Ministers Richard Hess and Jesse Benedict will officiate. The family will receive friends two hours prior to the service in the funeral home. Interment will follow the service in The Church Cemetery of the Brown’s Mill Congregation, Chambersburg, PA. Online condolences may be offered on his Book of Memories page at www.geiselfuneralhome.com.