Robert Michael Perkins, 40, former Montpelier resident died Wednesday, January, 1986 in a hospital in Vallejo, California.  He was born September 29, 1945 in Montpelier to John Lewis and Mary Margaret Preston Dalke Perkins.  As a young boy he was active in scouting and attended the National Boy Scout Jamboree in Colorado in 1960.  He attended Bear Lake County schools with superior academic achievement.  Studying music occupied a great deal of his time and he developed a noted tenor voice.  He also became skilled on the trumpet and piano.  He continued his education at the University of Idaho and then entered the US Air Force in 1966.  He married Patricia Ray Stephens December 30, 1966 in Logan, Utah.  They were later divorced.  In the Air Force he was trained as a Russian language specialist at Syracuse University in New York.  Other military assignments took him to San Angelo, Texas and Anchorage, Alaska where he was honorably discharged in 1970.  He graduated with a BS degree in psychology in 1972 and then received a master's degree in social work in 1974 from the University of Utah.  He worked as a psychiatric social worker at the Napa Valley State Hospital in Napa, California where he had resided until his death.  He is survived by two daughters and his mother.  Funeral services were held in the Matthews Mortuary Chapel.  Burial was in the Montpelier Cemetery.