I don’t remember life without Bob. Thirteen years my senior, he has always been there. My earliest memories are of my big brother. Bob was a leader from his youth onward. He possessed a captivating smile and expressed genuine love and kindness to all. He lit up a room when he walked in.
Born in 1937, saved as a child, called to preach and pastor as a teenager, he determined to dedicate his entire life to Christ. Bob loved his family. He and his wife of 52 years, Jo Ann, were an amazing team. Jo Ann is the sister I never had. Theirs was a lifetime love story. Their children, Bobby, Katherine and Karen have been blessed to have such great, godly parents. All rise up to call Bob, “blessed.”
Bob was a winsome preacher, a devoted pastor and a loving leader. He shepherded God’s flock and was faithful where God put him. He was pastor of Field Street Baptist Church in Cleburne, Texas for nearly 30 years. He retired a few years ago, but continued to minister and serve our Lord. He has now joined our parents, Tom and Emogene, in the Father’s House. The reception and reunion were surely glorious.
All of us here miss him and grieve his passing but we rejoice that one sweet day we will join Bob at the feet of Jesus and celebrate forever our Savior. 2 Peter 1:7 speaks of the virtue of “brotherly kindness.” When you read this verse, you see a picture of my brother.
I love you, Bob. Your kind smile still lights my life.
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Pastor, thanks for your remembrance of your brother, Bob. I wish that I knew him -- I met him only once, briefly, at Prestonwood. But hearing how others eulogized him at his memorial service, and seeing the crowd that filled the sanctuary that day, I have no doubt that he was a true man of God, loving and well-loved by those who knew him.
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