Ouachita-Morehouse County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....AUBREY, ROBERT NEWTON December 15, 2012
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ROBERT NEWTON AUBREY

Robert Newton Aubrey was born August 22, 1921 in El Paso, Texas. He died 
December 15, 2012.

Bob Aubrey served in the United States Navy as a dive bomber pilot during 
World War II in the Pacific Theatre. Lieutenant R. N. Aubrey flew from the 
decks of the United States aircraft carriers USS Hornet and USS Bunker Hill. 
He did not like to talk about combat, but he loved to talk about his Navy 
experiences, flying and his friends outside of war. He often joked that his 
work as a Navy flight instructor was far more dangerous than his combat roles. 
He worked for International Paper Company before and after the war.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Grace Galloway Aubrey and Robert Lee 
Aubrey, and Vikki Sims and Marjorie Nielsen, whom he regarded and treated as 
his family.

He is survived by Don Sims, Penny Sims, Mare' Sims Brennan, Steve Brennan, 
Madison, Blaine, and Barrie Brennan and Cole Sims, Paige Sims, Patton, Mollie, 
and Sarah Jane Sims.

He was affectionately known as "Daddy Bob" to many, including Earle Files, 
Jeffrey Morris, Lee Tugwell, Greg Garrett, James Scott Townsend and many more. 
He was a quiet, humble gentleman. He enjoyed horse racing, tennis and games of 
intellectual challenge. He loved science and throughout his life was filled 
with the fascination of the unknown. Daddy Bob was not religious, but he did 
not discount the beliefs of those who are.

Daddy Bob was to us a father, a grandfather, a great-grandfather, and a friend 
that all who had the honor of knowing him should thank our lucky stars.

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone 
you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who 
ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, 
thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every 
hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of 
civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother 
and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, 
every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every 
saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust 
suspended in a sunbeam." Carl Sagan


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