Bobby Everett Newman
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On October 27, 1931 on a farm in rural Claud, Oklahoma Bobby Everett Newman was welcomed to this life by his parents Ellen Clarine (Culberson) and Everett Haverson Newman. He was one of their four children.
Bobby passed away in Worland on May 28, 2016, and his graveside funeral was held on June 1, 2016 at Riverview Cemetery in Worland.
Bobby was raised in Duncan, Oklahoma where he enjoyed riding bicycles as a kid, often times those bike belonged to other boys. He attended schools in Duncan and went to work in a bakery in Duncan as a baker's helper when he was still in his early teens.
He dropped out of school, joined the US Navy and served from August 1952 to July of 1956, during the Korean Conflict. Bob served on the USS Dixie, a destroyer tender and on the USS Gurke, a navy destroyer. He was a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the Gurke. He was stationed out of Alameda Naval Air Station in Alameda, CA.
Following his discharge he returned to Duncan, OK where he went to work for Halliburton Services. They sent him to Newcastle, Wyoming as a truck driver. It was during this time that he met the love of his life, a beautiful red headed girl named Mary Marie Morgan. He and Mary were married on September 15, 1961 in Newcastle at the Methodist Church.
Bob and Mary moved to Gillette, Wyoming in 1962 when Bob took employment with a bakery. In 1967 the couple moved to Worland after he was offered a job in the oilfields. This is when he an oilfield pumper. It was a job he thoroughly enjoyed, and it became his life's vocation.
Bob worked for Tenneco, a gas line transmission company, for the next 29 years. The couple lived at Worland until 1985 when the company transferred them to Fairview, Oklahoma, and eventually back to Bob's hometown of Duncan, Oklahoma.
At one time he was named as the best pumper in the Midwest Region by Tenneco.
In 1996, Bob retired from the oilfields and the couple lived in Duncan until moving back to Worland to be near their daughter Jan Brown in 2010.
During his off work hours he enjoyed watching TV and was active in the Assembly of God churches in Worland and Duncan. He had a special calling to minister to the needs of the shut-ins at the local nursing home where he would take fresh fruit to the residents. His favorite color was blue.
Bob was preceded in death by his parents, Doc and Clarine Newman, his daughter Lisa Ann Newman and by a brother Jerry Newman.
His is survived by his wife Mary and his daughter Jan (Mrs. Clayton) Brown both of Worland, WY, Anita Hunter of Grass Valley, CA, and Rhonda Anderson of Lakeport, CA; and by his sisters Carolyn (Jim) Turner and Sharon (Lyndon) Allen both of Edmond, Oklahoma. He will be dearly missed by all of them.
