Bobbie Eugene Bailey, the third child of William Ernest and Bertha May (Dobbs) Bailey, was born January 3, 1926, in Macomb, IL, and passed from this life May 9, 1994, at the Sac-Osage Hospital in Osceola at the age of 68 years. 4 months and 6 days. Due to lack of employment opportunities, the family was forced to go where the work was, so Bob spent his childhood in several different states, finally returning to Deepwater, where he spent most of the rest of his childhood. On June 29, 1953, in Clinton, he married Mae Irene Crowder and to this union six children were born. On December 16,1979, he married Margaret Yvonne Sartain and became the father of 12 children, his six children and her six children, who loved him as their own father. Bob was a personable, happy-go-lucky man, with a quick wit and who loved to tease. The family has always joked and played practical jokes on each other, and usually Bob was in the middle of all of them - either giving or receiving the brunt of the jokes. He had a way of coming up with goofy nicknames and you didn't dare show it bothered you - or you were nailed with it for life. Bob had a lot of passions - one of them was cars. From the time he could lift up a wrench or screwdriver, he had to see what made engines tick. When he was smaller, much to his mother's dismay, he even unfixed a few motors that didn't need fixed. But by the time he was a teenager, he could take a car engine apart and put it back together. Another great love he enjoyed from childhood until the Lord called him home was fishing. He especially had time to enjoy it the last fifteen years and that was when he was happiest. Today, as he takes his final rest, his children made sure his trusty rod and reel were securely within reaching distance. His son, Archie, and wife, Yvonne, were laughing happily with him on the morning of May 9 when suddenly Bobbie Eugene Bailey's life came to an end - and his son finds solace in knowing his father died as he had lived, happy and laughing and enjoying life. Bob was preceded in death by his parents, William Ernest and Bertha May Dobbs Bailey; one sister, Elizabeth Jeane (Bailey) Snedeker, and one brother, Thomas Bert Bailey. He is survived by his wife, Yvonne Bailey, of the home; two daughters, Mary June Engeman of Lowry City and Bonnie Jean Bailey of Warsaw; four sons, Leonard Ernest Bailey, David Eugene Bailey and William Benjamin Bailey, all of Lowry City, and Bobbie Lynn Bailey of Deepwater; four step-daughters, Tyra Young of Deepwater, Tamra Courtney of Harrisonville, Treva Matthews of San Diego, Ca., and Tracy Myears of Lake Andes, SD; two step-sons, Terry Childers of Oak Grove and Troy Cross of Republic; two brothers, Bennie Bailey of Excelsior Springs and Bill Bailey of Deepwater; twenty-six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. He was a special "Uncle" to all of his nieces and nephews and many other relatives and friends are left to mourn his passing. Funeral services for Bobbie Eugene Bailey were held Wednesday, May 11, 1994, at the Brownington Baptist Church. Final resting place was Maplewood Cemetery at Brownington.