Robert S. High Jr. of Leander, Texas, was born to Robert and Bertha High in 1927 in Abilene, Texas, and was raised in Blooming Grove, Texas. He passed away on September 30, 2016 in Temple, Texas, at the age of 89.
After graduating high school and serving two years in the Navy at the end of WWII, he attended and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. He began his business career in Dallas, where he met and married the love of his life, Dorothy Watkins.
Bob was a respected insurance professional and family man in Dallas and Houston, a popular and active retiree in the Sun City community of Georgetown, Texas, and a devoted member of the United Methodist Church during his lifetime.
Preceded in death by wife "Dot" in 1998, he is survived by daughter Nancy High Ballman, son-in-law Charles Ballman, grandchildren Lee, Beth and Rob; son Dan High; cousins Bill and Susan High; sister-in-law Betty Watkins; brother- and sister-in-law David and Nancy Watkins; loving cousins, nieces and nephews
Visitation with his family will be Tuesday, October 4, 2016 from 11 A.M. - 12 noon at Griffin - Roughton Funeral Home. Graveside services will follow at Dresden Cemetery at 12:30 P.M. with Rev. Dan Bonner of Well Spring United Methodist Church in Georgetown, TX. officiating.
Obituary piblished online 4 Oct 2016 by Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home, Corsicana, Texas.
After graduating high school and serving two years in the Navy at the end of WWII, he attended and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. He began his business career in Dallas, where he met and married the love of his life, Dorothy Watkins.
Bob was a respected insurance professional and family man in Dallas and Houston, a popular and active retiree in the Sun City community of Georgetown, Texas, and a devoted member of the United Methodist Church during his lifetime.
Preceded in death by wife "Dot" in 1998, he is survived by daughter Nancy High Ballman, son-in-law Charles Ballman, grandchildren Lee, Beth and Rob; son Dan High; cousins Bill and Susan High; sister-in-law Betty Watkins; brother- and sister-in-law David and Nancy Watkins; loving cousins, nieces and nephews
Visitation with his family will be Tuesday, October 4, 2016 from 11 A.M. - 12 noon at Griffin - Roughton Funeral Home. Graveside services will follow at Dresden Cemetery at 12:30 P.M. with Rev. Dan Bonner of Well Spring United Methodist Church in Georgetown, TX. officiating.
Obituary piblished online 4 Oct 2016 by Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home, Corsicana, Texas.
Robert S. High Jr. of Leander, Texas, was born to Robert and Bertha High in 1927 in Abilene, Texas, and was raised in Blooming Grove, Texas. He passed away on September 30, 2016 in Temple, Texas, at the age of 89.
After graduating high school and serving two years in the Navy at the end of WWII, he attended and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. He began his business career in Dallas, where he met and married the love of his life, Dorothy Watkins.
Bob was a respected insurance professional and family man in Dallas and Houston, a popular and active retiree in the Sun City community of Georgetown, Texas, and a devoted member of the United Methodist Church during his lifetime.
Preceded in death by wife "Dot" in 1998, he is survived by daughter Nancy High Ballman, son-in-law Charles Ballman, grandchildren Lee, Beth and Rob; son Dan High; cousins Bill and Susan High; sister-in-law Betty Watkins; brother- and sister-in-law David and Nancy Watkins; loving cousins, nieces and nephews
Visitation with his family will be Tuesday, October 4, 2016 from 11 A.M. - 12 noon at Griffin - Roughton Funeral Home. Graveside services will follow at Dresden Cemetery at 12:30 P.M. with Rev. Dan Bonner of Well Spring United Methodist Church in Georgetown, TX. officiating.
Obituary piblished online 4 Oct 2016 by Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home, Corsicana, Texas.
After graduating high school and serving two years in the Navy at the end of WWII, he attended and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. He began his business career in Dallas, where he met and married the love of his life, Dorothy Watkins.
Bob was a respected insurance professional and family man in Dallas and Houston, a popular and active retiree in the Sun City community of Georgetown, Texas, and a devoted member of the United Methodist Church during his lifetime.
Preceded in death by wife "Dot" in 1998, he is survived by daughter Nancy High Ballman, son-in-law Charles Ballman, grandchildren Lee, Beth and Rob; son Dan High; cousins Bill and Susan High; sister-in-law Betty Watkins; brother- and sister-in-law David and Nancy Watkins; loving cousins, nieces and nephews
Visitation with his family will be Tuesday, October 4, 2016 from 11 A.M. - 12 noon at Griffin - Roughton Funeral Home. Graveside services will follow at Dresden Cemetery at 12:30 P.M. with Rev. Dan Bonner of Well Spring United Methodist Church in Georgetown, TX. officiating.
Obituary piblished online 4 Oct 2016 by Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home, Corsicana, Texas.
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