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Canyon

Robert Lee "Bob" Willoughby

Robert Lee "Bob" Willoughby, 70, of Canyon died Friday, May 21, 2004.

Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Henson-Novak Funeral Home Chapel
in Guymon, Okla., with the Rev. Terry Neel, pastor of First Christian Church,
officiating. Internment will be in Elmhurst Cemetery in Guymon.

The son of Mary Frances Everett and Hugh Lamont Willoughby, Mr. Willoughby was
born Dec. 20, 1933, in Lamar, Colo. The Willoughby family made their home in
Guymon, where he attended Guymon schools and graduated from Guymon High School
with the class of 1951.

He attended Columbia University in New York and then enlisted in the Army. He
served in Vietnam and the Far East as a linguist during his 20+ years in the
Army. While in Japan, he met and married Ayako Nara on Aug. 8, 1966, in Sapporo,
Japan. After retiring as a chief warrant officer, they returned to the states
and lived in San Antonio.

He was preceded in death by his wife in 1983; his father; his mother; his
stepfather, Robert E. Jackson; and a sister, Mary Jane Munkres.

Survivors include three nieces, Kim M. Bradford and Shawna L. Brown, both of
Longview, and Misty K. Sander of Jackson, Tenn., and their families; a brother-
in-law, Doyle Munkres and wife, Peggy, of Wheeler and Elk City, Okla.; two
aunts, Louie Remmel of Guymon and Pauline Groendyke of Enid, Okla.; and many
cousins, including Mary Frances Farnworth of Juniper, Fla.

The family suggests memorials be to New Life Pentecostal Church of God, Shady
Shores, Denton, TX in care of Henson-Novak Funeral Home, Box 1306, Guymon, OK
73942.

Amarillo Globe-News, May 23, 2004