Beaver County, Oklahoma

Capitol View Cemetery

Audrey N. (Abbott) & Robert Lee "Bob" Hoover

Submitted by: Donna Barnes

Robert Lee "Bob" Hoover

Birth: Jul. 21, 1928
Death: May 22, 2006

Submitted By: Jo Agguirre

Services were held for Robert Hoover at the Beaver First Baptist Church on Tuesday, May 30, 2006. Bob was laid to rest at the Capital View Cemetery.

Robert "Bob" Lee Hoover was born to Ernest and Lizzie (Brock) Hoover on July 21, 1928 in Booker, Texas and died while flying to Houston, Texas on Monday, May 22, 2006.

He�attended schools at Elmwood, Balko, Beaver and his last year at Goodwell. Bob lived on farms that his folks rented until he was 15. At that age, his father died and his mother moved her family to Beaver.  He worked at several places in Beaver and worked for Bill Sharp at the Champlin Station. He always volunteered to help other farmers when he was not busy.

In July of 1948, Bob met the woman of his dreams, Audrey Abbott, while at a country music dance and they were married on April 24, 1949. Their son Robert (Bobby) was born on February 26, 1950. Bob moved his little family to Enid in May of that year. In 1952, Bob and his family moved back to Beaver to work at Beech Aircraft. He drove back and forth from Beaver to Liberal, KS for over seven years.

On February 8, 1953, their daughter Shirley Kay was born.  Bob became a Christian at 26-years-of age and was baptized while attending the First Christian Church. Bob lost his voice to cancer in November of 1974 and had to learn how to talk again , without the aid of any devices.

In 1985, Bob retired from the Northern Natural Gas plant after 26 years. He then went to work for the Beaver County Sheltered Workshop until 1998 when Audrey had him retire for good. Bob loved working in his workshop and their home is decorated with many things he made throughout the years until July of 2005 when doctors put Bob on strong blood thinners and Audrey wouldn't let him around anything sharp.

Bob had his first triple bypass in April of 1985. In 1993, they did the balloon. Scar tissue broke off and got in the aorta, and they lost him. They were able to revive him and Bob often talked about seeing Heaven and how beautiful it was. Bob had his second triple bypass in 1998.

Bob loved music, especially country and playing his guitar. He and Audrey attended the senior citizen dances in Beaver and Liberal for 30 years. Before leaving on their trip to Houston, Bob and Audrey danced a little bit just as they did when they first met in 1948.

He is survived by his  wife of 57 years, Audrey and son Bob and wife, Sherri, and daughter Shirley and her husband, Terry Thomas; grandchildren Robert Hoover, Ryan and wife, Beth Hoover; Jackie and her husband, Richard Matheson, John Hoover, Alan and wife, Rita Thomas, Arron and wife, Desiree' Thomas; great-grandchildren Robbie and Robert Hoover II, Taylor and Meghan Anderson, Hannah Marie Matheson, Kyra Littlefeld, Codi and Heath Thomas, Kelsey, Chase and Kylee Thomas, Ryan J. and Victoria Hoover, Cassie and Michael Polomo; brothers Kent Hoover, Larry Hoover and Joe Hoover. Preceding him  in death were his parents Ernest and Lizzie Hoover; brothers and wifes Ronald and Alta Hoover, Alvin Ray and Reola Hoover and Donald Hoover; sisters and their husbands Joyce and Glen Schollenbarger, Isabell and Jack Banks, Ruth Ferguson and Barbara Hoover.

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