Robert Francis Summers II

Services for Robert Francis (Bob) Summers II, 92, of Norman, will be at 2:00 pm, 30, September 2019 at First Baptist Church, Norman, OK with the Dr. Wade Smith officiating. Primrose Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Summers died Thursday, 09/19/2019 in Norman, OK. He was born 24 Dec 1926 to Robert Francis and Effie Mae (Dillard) Summers in Chickasha, OK. In 1944 he was with Phillips Petroleum Co. on an oil exploration seismograph crew in Oklahoma at Browning, Montana, and worked for A.B. Cobb Drilling Co. of Cut Bank, Montana as a derrick man.

While still 17 years old, he joined the U.S. Navy and was stationed in the Southwest Pacific Theatre of WWII. Subsequently following an honorable discharge, he returned home, graduated from Chickasha High School, earned a Private Pilot’s License and started work at Tinker Air Force Base, from which he retired in 1983 with 36 years of service and no sick leave taken the last 32 years.

Robert met the love of his life Amanda Bertie Lorene Smith at the skating rink in Chickasha, OK. They were married 29, May 1948 in Chickasha, OK. The couple came to Norman in June 1953. Both Robert and Lorene were Christians and members of First Baptist Church in Norman. He enjoyed helping with church building projects, working in his home shop and fellowship with his family and friends. He was a lifetime member of the American Legion at post 88 of Norman. Robert was a devoted Christian and loving father. He taught his boys to be good men.

Survivors include two sons, Robert III (Bob) and wife Ann of Noble, OK and James Jeffrey (Jeff) and wife Karen of Norman. Grandchildren Natalie, Robert IV, Amanda, Charles. Great Grand children Ben, Zac, Claire, Robert V, Wyatt, Lillianne, Leslie, Sandra, Elissa.

Mr. Summers was preceded in death by his wife Lorene in 1993, his mother in 1987 and his father in 1927 who was brought to Chickasha Indian Territory as an orphan train child from New York City and grand-daughter Jennifer “Lynn" in 2011.