Woodward Co. - Obit for ROBERT H. LESLIE

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Obit for ROBERT H. LESLIE

Woodward County Journal
Thursday, Jan 4, 1968
pg 1 col 2


ROBERT H. LESLIE
Services Set Friday
Robert H. "Bob" Leslie, 72 year old, longtime Woodward druggist died Tuesday 
evening Woodward Memorial Hospital, following a long illness.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Friday in the First Baptist 
Church.  Rev Hale A. Dixon, pastor of the church will officiate and burial 
under the direction of Stecher Mortuary will be in Elmwood Cemetery.

The family requests that flower contributions be made to the Baptist church 
building fund.

Robert Howard Leslie was born March 9, 1896, at Fairy, a small town in 
central Texas. His parents were ranchers and moved from Texas to near Arnett 
to 1912. He graduated from high school at Arnett. 
On Dec. 14, 1916, he married - Pearl Conyera at Trinidad, CO., and they lived 
to Des Moines, N. Mex., where he worked in a drug store. He had attended 
pharmacy school at Baylor University and became a registered pharmacist to 
1919. The Les lies bought the drug store Des Moines after he served in the 
navy to World War I and ran it until 1926 when they moved to Amarillo. They 
lived to Amarillo and Borger, Texas, before moving to Blackwell where he and 
his brother, a medical doctor, opened a private sanitarium. After his 
brother's death in 1936, they closed the sanitarium and moved to Norman where 
their daughter, Sybil was attending the University of Oklahoma.

Mr. Leslie was a member of the Baptist Church.  He was past master of the 
Masonic Lodge, served on the hospital board from the Memorial Hospital was 
started, was a chamber of commerce director, served a term on the city 
commission, and was a past district president of Oklahoma Pharmaceutical 
Association.

Mr. Leslie fell and broke his hip in 1961, which forced him into retirement.

Survivors are his wife Pearl of the home at 1604 Hillcrest, Woodward, two 
daughters, Mrs. Sybil Donley of Barstow, Calif., and Mrs. Patsy Ann Jones of 
Woodward; a sister Loie Ann Leslie of Amarillo; and three grandchildren.