Bobby J. Kee

Bobby Joe Kee was born on February 24, 1930 in Duncan, Oklahoma and departed this life on August 10, 2013 in Plano, Texas. Bob lived most of his life in Texas. He was preceded in death by his mother Opal, father Roy, and older brother Roy Junior. Left to cherish his memory are his wife Mary, children Mark, Mary Jo, Rebecca, Michael, son-in-law Robert, granddaughters Rebecca, Sarah, Emily, two younger brothers Ronny and Rudy, and many cousins, nieces, and nephews.

Bob and his brother Roy were raised in Duncan by their mother Opal who joined the Church of the Nazarene when Bob was three years of age. Bob took Christ as his savior in his early teens and was instrumental in leading many football teammates and friends to Christ

As a youngster, Bob sold newspapers, unloaded cement from rail cars, and pumped gas at a filling station to help his mother’s expenses.

Bob spent three years in the Army, stationed at New York, El Paso, and Arkansas during the Korean conflict. Bob won a championship buckle while boxing at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas.

In 1952, Bob began his freshman year at Bethany Nazarene College (now SNU0 where he met Mary Louise Brown, a senior at Bethany High School. They were married March 5, 1954 in her parent’s living room on College Street.

Bob worked three years for Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company in Oklahoma, he and family moved to Dallas in 1959 where he worked for Roadway Express and also worked for them in Tyler. Bob’s arthritis prompted a move to sunny California in 1966 and he went to work for Eastman Kodak as Assistant Warehouse Manager. Bob furthered his college studies at Rio Hondo Junior College. Moving back to Dallas in 1972, Bob worked as a car and carpet salesman until he retired in the 1980s.

Bob loved working with wood and made lawn furniture and craft items which he sold at craft fairs and gave to friends and family.

Bob never met a stranger and would always be the first to meet the neighbors everywhere we lived. Bob had a sunny disposition and loved to laugh and joke with everyone. Bob was ill for many of his last years and all his caretakers loved him and spoke of how nice he was to them.