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Big Timber Pioneer, 4/11/ 2013
Bob W. Woolley, 91, passed away Friday, April 5, at Pioneer Medical Center in Big Timber.
Bob, affectionately called "Boppa" by his granddaughters, and "Oops" by his Woolley family was born Nov. 7, 1921, in Ryegate, Mont., to Mac and Ellen Woolley.
He was preceded in death by his parents, sister Dona Lessman and brother Skeets Woolley, sisters-in-law Blanche Woolley and Lavaun Woolley, brothers-in-law, Robert White and Jay McColly, and nephew Mike Donsbaugh.
He is survived by his wife Millie, daughter Darlene (Oscar) Stene of Big Timber, granddaughter Renae VanDaveer (Jay), and great-grandson, Keaton Jace VanDaveer, of Highlands Ranch, Colo., and granddaughter, Ivanie Stene, of Arvada, Colo. Also, sister Loire McColly of Lewistown, nieces Laurie Cooney of Big Timber, Cheryl Bell (Sam) of Texas, and Bobbed Donsbaugh of Lewistown, brother Max Woolley, and nephew Max J. Wooley of Idaho, and numerous great-nieces and nephews.
Bob spent much of his childhood in the Ryegate area. His dad homesteaded and later was undersheriff under his brother-in-law in Golden Valley County.
As a teenager, Bob and a friend climbed onto a building and witnessed the last hanging ever done in Montana. Later they moved to Lewistown, where Bob completed his early education and graduated from high school in 1939.
He enlisted in the U. S. Army National Guard and in 1941 fought for five years in the South Pacific Theatre of WWII. He ended up in the hospital with malaria and recovered in New Zealand. Bob was with the 25th Tropical Lightning Army Division.
After the War, he attended and graduated from the University of Montana in Missoula with a bachelor's degree in music education.
Bob taught band and general music in several small towns, ending up in Big Timber, where his daughter Darlene was one of the many students under him. He taught for 15 years.
His wife, Millie taught 30 years in the grade school. They knew the minute they drove into Big Timber, that this was to be home.
He loved music of all kinds, especially opera, classical music, and western gospel. While teaching in Three Forks, Mont., he and Millie played in a local dance band there.
Bob retired from teaching in 1965 and started his own business, "Bob's Sport Shop," on McLeod Street in Big Timber, which he retired from in 2001. During this time, he loved participating in gun trade shows and haggling a price with everyone, and finding him, at the many garage sales around town in the spring.
Bob loved the outdoors, and you could usually find him flying his own airplane, hunting, fishing camping, or rock hunting, meanwhile teaching his daughter the love of the outdoors also and teaching her the love of "hunting" for arrowheads up along the Boulder River during the many camping trips that he, Millie and Darlene took. He also loved the WWII Jeep that he renovated and giving rides to his granddaughters as well as driving in most of the rodeo parades.
He was a member of the NRA, the American Legion, and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.
Big Timber Pioneer, 4/11/ 2013
Bob W. Woolley, 91, passed away Friday, April 5, at Pioneer Medical Center in Big Timber.
Bob, affectionately called "Boppa" by his granddaughters, and "Oops" by his Woolley family was born Nov. 7, 1921, in Ryegate, Mont., to Mac and Ellen Woolley.
He was preceded in death by his parents, sister Dona Lessman and brother Skeets Woolley, sisters-in-law Blanche Woolley and Lavaun Woolley, brothers-in-law, Robert White and Jay McColly, and nephew Mike Donsbaugh.
He is survived by his wife Millie, daughter Darlene (Oscar) Stene of Big Timber, granddaughter Renae VanDaveer (Jay), and great-grandson, Keaton Jace VanDaveer, of Highlands Ranch, Colo., and granddaughter, Ivanie Stene, of Arvada, Colo. Also, sister Loire McColly of Lewistown, nieces Laurie Cooney of Big Timber, Cheryl Bell (Sam) of Texas, and Bobbed Donsbaugh of Lewistown, brother Max Woolley, and nephew Max J. Wooley of Idaho, and numerous great-nieces and nephews.
Bob spent much of his childhood in the Ryegate area. His dad homesteaded and later was undersheriff under his brother-in-law in Golden Valley County.
As a teenager, Bob and a friend climbed onto a building and witnessed the last hanging ever done in Montana. Later they moved to Lewistown, where Bob completed his early education and graduated from high school in 1939.
He enlisted in the U. S. Army National Guard and in 1941 fought for five years in the South Pacific Theatre of WWII. He ended up in the hospital with malaria and recovered in New Zealand. Bob was with the 25th Tropical Lightning Army Division.
After the War, he attended and graduated from the University of Montana in Missoula with a bachelor's degree in music education.
Bob taught band and general music in several small towns, ending up in Big Timber, where his daughter Darlene was one of the many students under him. He taught for 15 years.
His wife, Millie taught 30 years in the grade school. They knew the minute they drove into Big Timber, that this was to be home.
He loved music of all kinds, especially opera, classical music, and western gospel. While teaching in Three Forks, Mont., he and Millie played in a local dance band there.
Bob retired from teaching in 1965 and started his own business, "Bob's Sport Shop," on McLeod Street in Big Timber, which he retired from in 2001. During this time, he loved participating in gun trade shows and haggling a price with everyone, and finding him, at the many garage sales around town in the spring.
Bob loved the outdoors, and you could usually find him flying his own airplane, hunting, fishing camping, or rock hunting, meanwhile teaching his daughter the love of the outdoors also and teaching her the love of "hunting" for arrowheads up along the Boulder River during the many camping trips that he, Millie and Darlene took. He also loved the WWII Jeep that he renovated and giving rides to his granddaughters as well as driving in most of the rodeo parades.
He was a member of the NRA, the American Legion, and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.
Obituary provided by: Contributor: Julia Kinsey 48922386 Thank You
Big Timber Pioneer, 4/11/ 2013
Bob W. Woolley, 91, passed away Friday, April 5, at Pioneer Medical Center in Big Timber.
Bob, affectionately called "Boppa" by his granddaughters, and "Oops" by his Woolley family was born Nov. 7, 1921, in Ryegate, Mont., to Mac and Ellen Woolley.
He was preceded in death by his parents, sister Dona Lessman and brother Skeets Woolley, sisters-in-law Blanche Woolley and Lavaun Woolley, brothers-in-law, Robert White and Jay McColly, and nephew Mike Donsbaugh.
He is survived by his wife Millie, daughter Darlene (Oscar) Stene of Big Timber, granddaughter Renae VanDaveer (Jay), and great-grandson, Keaton Jace VanDaveer, of Highlands Ranch, Colo., and granddaughter, Ivanie Stene, of Arvada, Colo. Also, sister Loire McColly of Lewistown, nieces Laurie Cooney of Big Timber, Cheryl Bell (Sam) of Texas, and Bobbed Donsbaugh of Lewistown, brother Max Woolley, and nephew Max J. Wooley of Idaho, and numerous great-nieces and nephews.
Bob spent much of his childhood in the Ryegate area. His dad homesteaded and later was undersheriff under his brother-in-law in Golden Valley County.
As a teenager, Bob and a friend climbed onto a building and witnessed the last hanging ever done in Montana. Later they moved to Lewistown, where Bob completed his early education and graduated from high school in 1939.
He enlisted in the U. S. Army National Guard and in 1941 fought for five years in the South Pacific Theatre of WWII. He ended up in the hospital with malaria and recovered in New Zealand. Bob was with the 25th Tropical Lightning Army Division.
After the War, he attended and graduated from the University of Montana in Missoula with a bachelor's degree in music education.
Bob taught band and general music in several small towns, ending up in Big Timber, where his daughter Darlene was one of the many students under him. He taught for 15 years.
His wife, Millie taught 30 years in the grade school. They knew the minute they drove into Big Timber, that this was to be home.
He loved music of all kinds, especially opera, classical music, and western gospel. While teaching in Three Forks, Mont., he and Millie played in a local dance band there.
Bob retired from teaching in 1965 and started his own business, "Bob's Sport Shop," on McLeod Street in Big Timber, which he retired from in 2001. During this time, he loved participating in gun trade shows and haggling a price with everyone, and finding him, at the many garage sales around town in the spring.
Bob loved the outdoors, and you could usually find him flying his own airplane, hunting, fishing camping, or rock hunting, meanwhile teaching his daughter the love of the outdoors also and teaching her the love of "hunting" for arrowheads up along the Boulder River during the many camping trips that he, Millie and Darlene took. He also loved the WWII Jeep that he renovated and giving rides to his granddaughters as well as driving in most of the rodeo parades.
He was a member of the NRA, the American Legion, and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.
Big Timber Pioneer, 4/11/ 2013
Bob W. Woolley, 91, passed away Friday, April 5, at Pioneer Medical Center in Big Timber.
Bob, affectionately called "Boppa" by his granddaughters, and "Oops" by his Woolley family was born Nov. 7, 1921, in Ryegate, Mont., to Mac and Ellen Woolley.
He was preceded in death by his parents, sister Dona Lessman and brother Skeets Woolley, sisters-in-law Blanche Woolley and Lavaun Woolley, brothers-in-law, Robert White and Jay McColly, and nephew Mike Donsbaugh.
He is survived by his wife Millie, daughter Darlene (Oscar) Stene of Big Timber, granddaughter Renae VanDaveer (Jay), and great-grandson, Keaton Jace VanDaveer, of Highlands Ranch, Colo., and granddaughter, Ivanie Stene, of Arvada, Colo. Also, sister Loire McColly of Lewistown, nieces Laurie Cooney of Big Timber, Cheryl Bell (Sam) of Texas, and Bobbed Donsbaugh of Lewistown, brother Max Woolley, and nephew Max J. Wooley of Idaho, and numerous great-nieces and nephews.
Bob spent much of his childhood in the Ryegate area. His dad homesteaded and later was undersheriff under his brother-in-law in Golden Valley County.
As a teenager, Bob and a friend climbed onto a building and witnessed the last hanging ever done in Montana. Later they moved to Lewistown, where Bob completed his early education and graduated from high school in 1939.
He enlisted in the U. S. Army National Guard and in 1941 fought for five years in the South Pacific Theatre of WWII. He ended up in the hospital with malaria and recovered in New Zealand. Bob was with the 25th Tropical Lightning Army Division.
After the War, he attended and graduated from the University of Montana in Missoula with a bachelor's degree in music education.
Bob taught band and general music in several small towns, ending up in Big Timber, where his daughter Darlene was one of the many students under him. He taught for 15 years.
His wife, Millie taught 30 years in the grade school. They knew the minute they drove into Big Timber, that this was to be home.
He loved music of all kinds, especially opera, classical music, and western gospel. While teaching in Three Forks, Mont., he and Millie played in a local dance band there.
Bob retired from teaching in 1965 and started his own business, "Bob's Sport Shop," on McLeod Street in Big Timber, which he retired from in 2001. During this time, he loved participating in gun trade shows and haggling a price with everyone, and finding him, at the many garage sales around town in the spring.
Bob loved the outdoors, and you could usually find him flying his own airplane, hunting, fishing camping, or rock hunting, meanwhile teaching his daughter the love of the outdoors also and teaching her the love of "hunting" for arrowheads up along the Boulder River during the many camping trips that he, Millie and Darlene took. He also loved the WWII Jeep that he renovated and giving rides to his granddaughters as well as driving in most of the rodeo parades.
He was a member of the NRA, the American Legion, and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.
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