Honoring her father, the later Robert Ringwald's, life actress Molly Ringwald shared the incredibly moving obituary she'd written for him with the Sacramento Bee. "Robert Scott Ringwald, known to most as Bob, and to a lucky few as Dad and PopPop, died Tuesday," she wrote, noting, "Anyone who knew Bob also knew his mischievous streak, and his ever-present, slightly ribald sense of humor." Molly even quipped, "If you didn't sufficiently beg to get off of his email joke list, you would have received one just a couple of days before he died." As Deadline reported, the jazz musician died on August 2 at the age of 80, with no cause revealed. Robert was born close to Sacramento, which explains his daughter's choice of venue to share her obituary. Likewise, Robert co-organized the very first Sacramento Jazz Festival, back in 1974.

He was legally blind as an infant, and fully blind by the time Robert reached adolescence. Despite this apparent setback, Robert began taking piano lessons at the age of 8, later mastering the guitar and banjo too, which naturally set him on the path to becoming a prolific jazz musician. Robert was married to Adele Frembd for 60 years and the couple shares three daughters. "Riverdale" star Molly included a lyric from the song "Old Bones" in her obituary, noting Robert frequently performed it in later years and she felt it "summed up his philosophy around a full life well-lived."