Editing Bob Homme (section)

==Later life and retirement==
Homme became a citizen of Canada in the early 1990s, holding both American and Canadian citizenships,<ref name="EB 1">{{Cite web |url=http://www.empressbooks.com/newsletter/FW2003/Homme.html |title=A Look Back at the Storybook Life of Robert Homme: The Friendly Giant Made it for the Long Run |last=Dmitrovic |first=L. Chrystal |date=2003 |website=Empress Books |access-date=December 17, 2016}}</ref> and was invested into the [[Order of Canada]] as a Member on November 2, 1998, in Grafton, Ontario. (As Homme was too ill to travel, the [[Governor General of Canada|Governor General]] [[Roméo LeBlanc]] travelled to Grafton to present it, instead of Homme going to [[Rideau Hall]] where the award is usually bestowed).<ref name="TV Acres 1"/><ref name="CCF 1" />

Bob and Esther Homme retired to a rural property near [[Grafton, Ontario]]. In retirement, Bob joined the Cobourg [[Rotary International|Rotary Club]] and was active as a member. He and fellow Rotarian Wally Reid formed a group called "Time Share", performing music in area retirement and nursing homes.{{sfnp|Fairley|2010|p=91-92}}