Robert Lee "Bob" Glidewell Obituary (1931

Robert Lee Bob Glidewell, 80, of Hooker, Oklahoma passed away August 29, 2011 at Oklahoma Heart Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Bob was born May 26, 1931 near the Granite, Oklahoma area. He attended the rural City View School near Mangum, Oklahoma graduating from City View High School with the Class of 1949. Bob worked as a custom combiner and took a crew to cut in Oklahoma and Kansas. He attended college at Altus Junior College and it was there that he met and dated Janis Bush. After a year they were united in marriage on July 19, 1953 in Altus. They made their first home in Vernon, Texas where Bob worked for Cameron & Company Lumber Company. He worked for the company for five years working in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. They came to Hooker in 1958 when Bob began managing Hooker Lumber Company. He worked there for 37 years until his retirement in 1995. Bob enjoyed gardening, hunting, fishing, watching sports but the thing he loved most was being PawPaw to his grandchildren and Old PawPaw to his great grandchildren. Preceding him in death are his parents, an infant sister and his sister Jimmie Jones. Survivors include his wife Janis of the home; his daughter, Jim Ann Hammerschmidt and husband Jim of Kismet, Kansas; two sons, Bob Glidewell and wife Marlyn Whitney of Columbia, Missouri, Ben Glidewell and wife Deborah of Battlefield, Missouri; sisters, Peggy Hinton and husband Wiley of Beaver, Oklahoma, Ramona Knight of Seagraves, Texas; brother in law, Nolan Jones of ODonnell, Texas; four grandchildren, Brian Hammerschmidt and wife Melissa, Ethan Hammerschmidt, Aaron Glidewell and wife Jamie, Amanda Ward and husband Jason; five great grandchildren, Hank and Harper Hammerschmidt, Skyler and Taylor Glidewell, Sadie Ward. Graveside services will be at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, September 1, 2011 at the Hooker Cemetery with Evan Eggleston officiating. Roberts Brothers Funeral Home in Hooker, Oklahoma is in charge of arrangements Memorials are suggested to the Hooker Firefighters or the Hooker Ambulance Association or the Hooker Cemetery Fund and may be left at the Roberts Brothers Funeral Home, Box 745, Hooker, Oklahoma, 73945.