Robert Hugh HOBBS

Enid News and Eagle Enid, Garfield Co., OK

05-31-2011

Submitted by: Lois Burdick

Funeral service for Robert Hugh Hobbs, 94, of Lawton, will be 2 p.m. today, May 31, 2011, at New Hope United Methodist Church, Enid, Okla., with Rev. Montie Jones, director of Cameron Campus Ministries in Lawton and Rev. Sheila Combs-Francis, pastor of New Hope United Methodist Church, Enid, Okla., officiating. Mr. Hobbs died Saturday, May 28, 2011, in Lawton. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, Enid, Okla., under the direction of Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Lawton.

He was born Sept. 5, 1916, in Pond Creek, Okla., to William Marshall and Nora Margaret (Durkee) Hobbs. His father made the Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893 and settled on a farm five miles east of Pond Creek, Okla. Robert was the youngest of 13 children. He graduated from Enid High School in 1933 and began working for Armour Creamery in 1936. In 1935 he joined Grand Avenue Methodist Church, where he met Dorotha Viola Green. They were married in 1938 and lived in Enid in a loving marriage for 65 years until her death in 2002.

After Armour Creamery closed in 1950, Bob went to work for Union Equity Grain Elevator and was the superintendent of Elevator A until he retired in 1982. While attending Grand Avenue Methodist Church, he was active, generous and a dedicated United Methodist throughout his life. He donated his time and energy to many leadership roles, but his favorite ones were being the head usher and greeter and teaching an elementary Sunday school class.

Robert loved animals and grew luscious vegetable gardens and beautiful flowers. He loved his family, both the Hobbs family and the Green family. He particularly cherished time with his nieces and nephews and neighbor "kids." He was a devoted and generous father, grandfather and was greatly loved by his family. In 2004 he moved to Brookridge Retirement Center in Lawton, where he developed many new friends and domino partners.

He is survived by his daughter, Marlene (Hobbs) Jones and husband Rev. Phil Jones of Lawton, Okla.; two grandsons, Dr. Phil Jones and wife Cathleen of Norman, Okla., and Mark Jones and wife Lori Leu of Plano, Texas; four grandchildren, Colin Jones and Logan Jones of Norman and Allyson Jones and Hayden Jones of Plano, Texas; sister, Clara Buffalow of Ponca City, Okla.; and many nieces and nephews.