Graveside service with full military honors will be held for SFC (Retired) Robert Allen Hostetter at 2:00 p.m. Monday, January 27, 2025 in Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Arrangements are under direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

SFC (Retired) Robert Allen Hostetter died Sunday, January 19, 2025 in Knoxville, Tennessee at the age of 71.  He was born May 11, 1953 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to John Edward and Evelyn Mae (Wiley) Hostetter.  He grew up in Pennsylvania and graduated high school in Lancaster.

Following graduation he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, serving a short time before entering the U.S. Army.  He retired from the Army in October of 1995 after more than 20 years of service and was the recipient of numerous awards and decorations.

He enjoyed tinkering and had a vast collection of clocks.

He is survived by his two sons, Patrick Hostetter and Robert John Hostetter and wife Sandra; several grandchildren; siblings, Shirley Mae TudéThuot and husband Lawrence, Nancy Jean Lesher and husband James, Dianne Marie Miller and husband James and Thomas Eugene Hostetter and wife Sheree; and his sister-in-law, Lori Hostetter.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a daughter and her unborn son, Shannon Marie and Cody Hostetter, and siblings, John Myers Hostetter, Judith Ann Miller and husband Gerald and Jere Lee Hostetter.