Robert Rudolph Rada Robert Rudolph Rada, born August 14, 1930, passed from this life on February 17th, 2019. He was raised by his widowed mother Bertha (nee Svoboda), after his father Rudolph Rada passed when he was only two years old. He attended West Point as a member of the Concert Band, with his love of music culminating in five years with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as first trombone under...