Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  LEROY COBB

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LEROY COBB

OCNS - April 2, 2002 - Mr. Leroy Cobb, 82, longtime Osage County 
resident and oil production worker, died Sunday morning (March 31) at 
his family residence in Barnsdall, Oklahoma.

A native of Osage County, Oklahoma, Leroy was born at Hominy, 
Oklahoma, on August 13, 1919, the son of Chester Leroy and Liza Bell 
(Callison) Cobb and was reared and completed his education in Hominy.  
He was employed as a roustabout and pumper in oil field production in 
Osage County. He and Mrs. Dorothy Jane "Dolly" (Lindsey) Starling were 
married December 9, 1957, at Sedan, Kansas, and established their home 
in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.   Mrs. Cobb was employed at the Washington 
County Memorial Hospital in Bartlesville, as a nurse. 

In 1963, the Cobb family moved to the Wrangle Heights Addition in 
Barnsdall and Mr. Cobb continued his employment in oil production 
until he retired in 1971.   Mrs. Cobb was employed by Mr. And Mrs. 
Earl Taylor until she retired in 1985. 

Mr. & Mrs. Cobb continued living in retirement in Barnsdall until 
Mrs. Cobb's death on 

December 16, 1995.   Mr. Cobb continued living in Barnsdall.   Mr. Cobb 
was of the Baptist faith.

Survivors include:   His sons, Bobby Lee Cobb, Victor Ray Cobb and 
wife, Lauri, all of Bartlesville; three grandchildren, Mrs. Jennifer 
Jane Sinks and husband, Michael of Barnsdall; Victor Ray Cobb, Jr., 
and Deanna Marie Cobb, Bartlesville; two great grandchildren, Miranda 
Dorothea Sinks and Ryan Michael Sinks, Barnsdall; one sister, Mrs. 
Louise Haines, Pawhuska, Oklahoma; and Lawrence "Pete" Cobb of Tulsa.

Leroy Cobb will lie in state in the Arnold Moore-Barnsdall Funeral 
Home until the service hour on Wednesday. 

Graveside services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, at the 
Blackburn Cemetery, Blackburn, Oklahoma (west of Hominy), with 
Reverend Edgar Beaver officiating.   Committal prayers and final 
rites will be directed by the Arnold Moore-Barnsdall Funeral Home.