Robert Stephen Bean was born February 16, 1889 in Mansfield, Texas. He was the oldest of 5 children to Mr. Andrew Jackson and Zada Gertrude (Perryman)Bean. Growing up during that era as a young boy he was only able to complete the 3rd grade. After that, it was working in the fields with his father to help support the family along side other boys having to do the same, picking and chopping cotton with the men. In 1918, he married the love of his life, Willie Bernice Williams they shared 51 years of marriage. He worked as a coal miner at Thurber,Texas and Strawn,Texas pulling coal carts up out of the mines on the tracks. During the oil boom, he went to work for Magnolia Oil Company for 35 years in which most of his time was spent in the oil fields around Breckenridge and Electra Texas until retirement. He and his wife raised their 2 girls Billie Jo & Bobbye Jean in Breckenridge, Texas. Hobbies included: hunting,fishing,swimming,band concerts,and traveling to Civil War battle field sites. He loved his pets, dogs and cats through the years of his life. He was an avid reader, enjoying any history about the Confederates defeating the Yankees during the Civil War. He was remembered as being very devoted to his family and his parents and his wife's parents during The Great Depression. He was always looking in on them and bringing them groceries, for he felt very fortunate to have a job during those hard times. In his later years of life one of his biggest thrills came when his oldest grandson Joe W.Kelley came to live with him for about three years while attending and graduating from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. He was proceeded in death by his youngest daughter, Bobbye Jean Kelley, in 1964 and his wife, Bernice, in 1969 both of which died of breast cancer. At the time of his death, he was living in Abilene,Texas close to his oldest daughter and son-inlaw, Mr.& Mrs.Robert & Billie Jo Berry. He died September 3, 1975.
Robert Stephen Bean was born February 16, 1889 in Mansfield, Texas. He was the oldest of 5 children to Mr. Andrew Jackson and Zada Gertrude (Perryman)Bean. Growing up during that era as a young boy he was only able to complete the 3rd grade. After that, it was working in the fields with his father to help support the family along side other boys having to do the same, picking and chopping cotton with the men. In 1918, he married the love of his life, Willie Bernice Williams they shared 51 years of marriage. He worked as a coal miner at Thurber,Texas and Strawn,Texas pulling coal carts up out of the mines on the tracks. During the oil boom, he went to work for Magnolia Oil Company for 35 years in which most of his time was spent in the oil fields around Breckenridge and Electra Texas until retirement. He and his wife raised their 2 girls Billie Jo & Bobbye Jean in Breckenridge, Texas. Hobbies included: hunting,fishing,swimming,band concerts,and traveling to Civil War battle field sites. He loved his pets, dogs and cats through the years of his life. He was an avid reader, enjoying any history about the Confederates defeating the Yankees during the Civil War. He was remembered as being very devoted to his family and his parents and his wife's parents during The Great Depression. He was always looking in on them and bringing them groceries, for he felt very fortunate to have a job during those hard times. In his later years of life one of his biggest thrills came when his oldest grandson Joe W.Kelley came to live with him for about three years while attending and graduating from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. He was proceeded in death by his youngest daughter, Bobbye Jean Kelley, in 1964 and his wife, Bernice, in 1969 both of which died of breast cancer. At the time of his death, he was living in Abilene,Texas close to his oldest daughter and son-inlaw, Mr.& Mrs.Robert & Billie Jo Berry. He died September 3, 1975.
