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IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Robert Hugh

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Hobbs

Sep 5, 1916 — May 28, 2011

Obituary

Funeral services Robert Hugh Hobbs, 94, Lawton will be at 2:00 pm Tuesday in the New Hope United Methodist Church, Enid, OK with Rev. Montie Jones, Director of Cameron Campus Ministries, Lawton and Rev. Sheila Combs-Francis, Pastor of New Hope United Methodist Church, Enid, OK officiating. Mr. Hobbs died Saturday in Lawton. Burial will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery, Enid, OK under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. ** Family will greet friends Monday evening at the funeral home from 7pm until 9pm. ** He was born September 5, 1916 in Pond Creek, Oklahoma 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, Oklahoma. Robert was the youngest of thirteen 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 sixty-five 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/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, domino partners and one especially devoted one, Mrs. Dorothy Young. He is survived by his daughter Marlene (Hobbs) Jones and her husband Rev. Phil Jones of Lawton, OK, two grandsons, Dr. Phil Jones and his wife Cathleen of Norman, OK, Mark Jones and his wife Lori Leu of Plano, TX, four grandchildren, Colin Jones and Logan Jones of Norman, Allyson Jones and Hayden Jones of Plano, TX, a sister Clara Buffalow of Ponca City, OK and many nieces and nephews. Memorial contributions may be made to the New Hope United Methodist Church, 614 N. Garland Road, Enid, OK 73701

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