Bob Waldrop had a way of making you laugh even as he twisted the knife.

“The executive summary of my opinion is: ‘This is social cruelty in action,’” was his assessment of the Oklahoma City Council’s 2015 attempt to crack down on panhandling.

Pilgrim, friend to the poor, liturgical music director, political candidate, Robert Max Augustine Waldrop (@bobwaldrop) died this year at age 66, succumbing to cancer on Aug. 30.

Bob made his living as music director at Epiphany of the Lord Catholic Church and did his living in a 1929 bungalow in the Gatewood neighborhood, where he devoted himself to a sustainable lifestyle at his “Gatewood Urban Homestead,” a nod to his Tillman County roots.