He was born in Tyler, TX, on July 19, 1946.
He attended the Alamo Heights Schools and the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and chosen as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar, and received the Edward John Noble Scholarship for graduate studies in Ancient History at Columbia University.
He maintained his interest in this subject all his life.
He was employed for many years by Standard and Poor's Corporation in New York, and returned to San Antonio to live in 2001.
Bob was cheerful and generous and loved his family and friends in New York and San Antonio.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Elizabeth Calhoun Bobbitt, and is survived by his father, Robert Lee Bobbitt, Jr.; brother, Calhoun Bobbitt and Lynn Bobbitt and their children, Maura Jean Bobbitt and Elizabeth Kathleen Bobbitt; brother, John C. Bobbitt and his wife, Karen F. Bobbitt and their children, Nolan R. Bobbitt; Spencer Claire Bobbitt; and Caldwell Dixon Bobbitt, all of San Antonio; uncle and aunt, Judge Galloway Calhoun and Sue Calhoun, of Tyler, and their family.
