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In Memoriam...
Roy Reikert
Obituary published on
Legacy.com by Stenberg
Funeral Home - Big Timber
on Jun. 9, 2026.
Roy met Maureen Bolognetta
and they decided to marry
rather than Roy continue his
education at Pace University.
He loved to work, was anxious
ROY RIEKERT
to start their life, so began as a
diesel
mechanic on boats, mov“...From everlasting to everlasting from a hope to joining the
ing, you are God.”
“tin knockers union” to workRoy Eugene Riekert, born April ing and sharpening his skills at
4, 1943 to William E. Riekert and shops, eventually winding up
at Grumman Aviation (Long
Helene B. Mattier, passed away
Island) for 5+ years during
Friday evening, June 5, 2026
which time his daughters were
at the Pioneer Medical Center
where he’d been living since a fall born, Tage Ann, Philadelphia,
PA and Nonna Marie, Haddonat home on April 11.
field, NJ. He made the hammer
used to collect moon rocks
Born at Franklin Square, Nassau
County, New York, he joined an during the landing in 1979, the
capsule is in the Smithsonian
older brother Bill. A gifted man,
exhibit, also the experimental
Roy excelled in architectural
windmills so often seen on the
drawing, hot-rodding, fishing,
Livingston hill along I-90 in
hunting, and anything mechanthe late 70s.
ical, cat-related - or gun-related.
He often spoke of special times
He worked for Eastern Manwith his dad who taught him
ufacturing on Long Island,
how to work on engines, vehicles
- make them sing. He especially machining medical equipment,
plus his second full-time job
enjoyed fishing with his dad off
shore or in the bays, remembers for Wolfgang Droege of Drovel
Tool who eventually changed
them pulling up to the dock on
gears to making a reproduca Friday evening (mass) where
tion rifle - the Shiloh Sharps.
the priest would bless the night’s
Wolf and Eva decided to move
fishing. His dad made certain
the fledgling company to Big
that he and Billy went to church
Timber Montana, asking if
with him while his mom chose
Roy
would like to join them.
to stay behind, preparing her
Roy accepted, though Maureen
classic meals for their return.
chose to remain.
God Bless Black Powder!
He arrived first in Big Timber,
receiving all the trucks/equipment from NY, setting up the
shop in the early 1980’s. Shiloh
would become the leading manufacturer and industry standard
of these incredibly beautiful and
accurate rifles with Roy being
the production supervisor, proficient at any position. In the next
few years, the marriage became
a casualty of distance and by the
late 80’s, his parents had moved
to Big Timber from Long Island
to enjoy their later years together with him.
Through his love of technology he became a regular at the
Big Timber Radio Shack (now
Tumblewood Tea) which fed
his fascination with computers.
He eventually met Cherrlynn
Calvert (thanks, Eleanor) who
had recently started Cal-Graf
Design, a graphics and advertising business, in her apartment
over the McLeod Post Office.
She needed a typesetter for projects and Roy happily obliged,
taking into his life a young son
for his own as they married at
the end of December, 1988.
After Wolf ’s death Roy left
Shiloh, joining Cherrlynn in
Cal-Graf, eventually turning it
into another firearms affiliated
production company - beautifully crafted wood products for
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