Fairview Cemetery
Grady County, Oklahoma

Jack Leroy Bobier
February 20, 1924 ~ April 28, 2006

Funeral services for Jack Leroy Bobier, age 82 of Tuttle, Oklahoma were held 1:30 p.m., Monday, May 1, 2006 in the First Baptist Church of Tuttle.

Jack Leroy Bobier was born February 20, 1924 to Roxie and Tom Bobier in Asher, Oklahoma. He died April 28, 2006 at his home in Tuttle.

Just out of Tuttle High School, he went to California and joined the Merchant Marines. In one incident at sea, he left the boiler room at 9:00. At 9:12 a German Torpedo sank the ship. The only ones killed were the three men remaining in the boiler room. He and ten other men were on a life raft for three days before they drifted to the shores of Cuba. They were thrown in jail overnight until the Cubans found out they were Americans. Jack served his country proudly for four years in the US Navy during WWII. He was on the USS Augusta Flag Ship when they stormed the beaches of Omaha and Utah of Nazi occupied Europe during the Normandy invasion.

After the war, he was an airplane mechanic in Panama.

He came back home and started laying brick. He was a bricklayer for many years.

He taught at Moore Norman Vo Tech for seven years before his retirement.

He was worshipful Master of the Tuttle Masonic Lodge.

He loved hunting and fishing especially with his friend Johnnie and sons, Shane and Scott Charlson. He loved life and often said he would like to do it all over again. He enjoyed watching his grandchildren and great grandchildren play golf, wrestle, softball, baseball and soccer.

Those preceding him in death were his father and mother and sisters Juanita and Margaret.

Survivors include: His wife Dolores Bobier of the home in Tuttle; One son: Jackie Bobier and his wife Nancy of Tuttle; Two daughters: Terra Garrett of Tuttle, Sherri and husband Dr. Gordon Laird of Pawnee; Twin brother: Joe Bobier and wife Billie Lou of Oklahoma City and brother Tom Bobier of Oklahoma City; Sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law: Robert and Marie Garrett, Gilman and Kay Burris, C.B. and Janet Burris and Gayland and Dee Burris; 13 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.

Interment was in Fairview Cemetery, Tuttle, Oklahoma under the direction of Sevier Funeral Home.