Robert H. Goldsteen
Robert Harold Goldsteen, 73, who retired in the late 1980s as vice president of marketing at Rehab Group, a Falls Church computer programming and consulting firm, died Dec. 30 at Bethesda Memorial Hospital in Boynton Beach, Fla. He had squamous cell carcinoma, a form of skin cancer.
Mr. Goldsteen, who spent a few years running his own consulting firm after retiring, did data processing work for government contractors before joining Rehab Group in the mid-1970s.
Early in his career, he worked at the Navy's David Taylor Model Basin's applied mathematics laboratory in the research and design of data processing equipment.
He spent more than 30 years as a part-time Chesapeake Bay charter boat captain -- going full time after retiring -- and taught a lecture series on Chesapeake Bay fishing for the Montgomery County Recreation Department for 20 years.
Mr. Goldsteen was a native Washingtonian, a 1952 graduate of  Coolidge High School and a 1962 mathematics graduate of American University, where he was a member of Sigma Phi social fraternity.
He moved to Delray Beach, Fla., from Silver Spring in 2000.
He was a member of the Maryland Charter Boat Association and visited every continent except Antarctica.
His marriage to Elaine Hurwitz Goldsteen ended in divorce. A daughter from that marriage, Rhonda Zinn, died in 2004.
Survivors include his wife, Dorine Seidman, whom he married in 1983, of Delray Beach; a daughter from the first marriage, Donna Goldsteen of Damascus; a brother Michael Goldsteen of Brookeville; and five grandchildren.
-- Adam Bernstein