Bobby became a successful local real estate developer and philanthropist. He held key roles in a host of educational, civic, and community activities, including the Virginia Commonwealth University Real Estate Foundation, Henrico County Education Foundation, Virginia United Methodist Homes, and the Capital Region Airport Commission.  He supported a wide range of groups, including Commonwealth Christian Academy, the Virginia Holocaust Museum, Shady Grove YMCA, and St. Joseph’s Villa. Bobby was named Philanthropist of the Year in 1997 by the Central Virginia Philanthropic Executives and received the 2002 Mary Tyler McClenahan Visionary Leadership Award. In 2007, he was awarded the National Home Builders Association Hearthstone/Builder Humanitarian Award.
 

He passed away on May 7, 2014, after a lengthy illness.  Bobby was survived by son Richard "Cory" Atack and wife Tonya, daughter Amanda Atack Shields and her husband Jon, daughter Katherine "Katie" Atack Smith and her husband Charley, grandchildren Brooklyn and Hayley Atack, Will, Grace, Ella and Jack Shields, Anne Gregory, Nora and Paige Smith, sister Patsy Atack and her husband Dennis Lough, sister Kathleen Garson and her husband Bob, brother-in-law Don Swanson, sister-in-law Sharon Buck Atack, former wife Sharon Wilton Atack, and several nieces and nephews.