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The Winfield Daily Courier
Winfield, Kansas
February 25, 2000

Elmer Lyle Hobbs, 84, of Winfield, died Feb 24, 2000, at his home.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday in Oxford Cemetery. Friends may call at Oxford's Oliver-Hawks Funeral Home Sunday from 1 to 8 pm and Monday from 9 am to noon.

A memorial has been established with Hospice Inc. Contributions may be left at the funeral home.

Hobbs was born Feb 1, 1916, in Drumright, Okla., to Rush L. and Minerva E. Hoover Faris Hobbs. In 1929 the family moved to Oxford where he attended school.

On July 13, 1940, Hobbs married Mabel Mardell Loetham in Bristow, Okla. 

Hobbs worked for Shell Oil Co. and moved to Illinois. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army Signal Corp in Germany. After his discharge, he returned to work for Shell. The Hobbses moved to Oklahoma in the late 1950s and retired in the early 1960s.

They moved to Nevada, Mo., and in 1966 to the Duncan, Okla., area before moving to Oxford in 1999.

Survivors include his wife, Mabel Hobbs, Winfield; a sister, Melissa Ragsdale, St. Louis; and seven nieces and nephews, including Delores Brown, Oxford.

SOURCE: Courier Online, The Winfield Daily Courier [Dec 2001]