Full Birth Name: "Myrtle" Laura Loyless
Laura Loyless Hobbs, homemaker and clubwoman, died on July 5, 2022. She was born February 16, 1928, in Pecos, Texas, the fourth child and youngest daughter of Roy and Mary Loyless. Roy lost his Dodge dealership in the Great Depression and the family moved to Galveston. Laura would always remember roller skating on the sea wall of that city and spending hours in the imposing Rosenberg library. Later, the family moved to Houston. Now with five children, the Loyless family persevered during the Depression. Her father, Roy took jobs as a salvage diver and a Marine Mechanic which often kept him away from home for extended periods of time.
Despite the Depression, Laura excelled in her schoolwork, she took swimming lessons at the Y and went to the movies with friends. For evening outings, she sometimes secretly borrowed dresses from her sister Irene's growing collection of stylish outfits (Irene worked in a fancy department store). Laura carefully returned items at evening end so her sister would not know what she had done. Only many years later did she learn that Irene invariably knew what she had borrowed.
In 1947, when a friend suggested a blind date with a handsome World War II vet studying at Texas A & M College, Laura jumped at the opportunity. Accordingly, one Saturday morning she boarded the train for the journey of about ninety miles north to College Station to meet Duke Hobbs and see an A & M football game. Photos from the time show a pretty, poised, and fashionably dressed young woman. The two hit it off, a courtship followed, and they were married in College Station on Valentine's Day 1948.
Laura worked for the college while Duke finished his studies. Upon graduation, he accepted a commission in the newly formed United States Air Force. The couple was stationed in San Antonio when their first son, David, was born. Through the early 1950s, they were stationed in bases from Louisiana to Florida to Ohio where Mark was born. Duke's classified intelligence work frequent required overseas postings that barred families from following. This left Laura the important but lonely work of holding down the home front. When Duke completed his active-duty tour in the Air Force, the family returned to Houston and Laura's family. But in 1957, Duke's thriving career took the family to Dallas, and there Laura would remain until 1986. The family was completed in 1961 with the birth of twin sons, Keith and Stuart.
The decades of the 1950s and sixties saw her busy with raising her four sons. She always maintained that she was glad to have had only sons, saying daughters were much harder to raise. She was an active mother, serving as Cub Scout Den Mother, making sure the children had cookies and milk when they came home from school, and reading to them at bedtime.
At the same time, Laura was a social person and a joiner. Through the late 1950s and sixties she played regular bridge games with neighbors and later took part in more elaborate bridge clubs. She would frequently host games, where Card tables filled the living room and den while women in dresses and high heels played Bridge, smoked cigarettes and enjoyed coffee and cake.
In the 1980s, when her sons Keith and Stuart attended Texas A & M University, she joined the local A & M Mother's Club. The group engaged in various projects to raise money for the university. Laura worked assiduously to channel these funds to scholarships and especially to the library. One year another Aggie Mom suggested raising funds for the football team. Laura demurred, observing that the team already had plenty of money and instead made the case for a gift to the Sterling C. Evans Library. Her opponent expressed doubts about the worthiness of the library, but Laura's proposal carried the day, and she later delighted in recalling that even other MENS organizations followed suit in supporting the library.
Most important to her was the Republican Women's Club. She came to the GOP through her husband during the Cold War. She was deeply influenced by the Alger Hiss Spy Case of the late 1940s and early fifties, and especially by Richard Nixon's efforts to expose Hiss. She remained a loyal Nixon supporter her entire life. Through the Republican Women's Club, she made lifelong friends and used her organizational skills putting together fund-raising campaigns, such as a fashion show in which she and other ladies showed off the high style of the 1890s. In 1972, at a Dallas fund raising event for Nixon, she shook hands with John Wayne and reported her surprise to see that he wore a toupee.
In 1986, Duke retired, and she moved with him back to where it all started, College Station. There she volunteered as a Docent at the University's Sark and Forsyth Art Galleries. She had great fun guiding student and other groups through the permanent collections of paintings, sculpture and art glass and viewing various traveling exhibits hosted by the gallery. Laura had a lifelong interest in art, and while her taste was not avant garde, it was sophisticated as demonstrated by her appreciation for her favorite artist, Gustave Caillebotte, a proto impressionist of singular vision.
Laura had travelled the country on family vacations throughout the sixties and seventies. Now in retirement, she and Duke travelled the world: England, Spain, Norway, Russia, and especially, the country she came to love, Italy.
As they entered their nineties Duke and Laura decided to move into an assisted living apartment in the Dallas suburb of Plano, to be near sons David and Keith, grand kids and great-grand kids. She missed her home in College Station, but stoically soldiered on. Duke died in 2021. Laura's strength steadily weakened, but her mind remained sharp and spirit feisty until the last several months of her life. Following a slow decline, she died peacefully at her home in, her own bed.
Laura is survived by her sons David (Sharon), Mark, Keith (John), and Stuart (Jamie), by her grandchildren Terence, Alicia, and Sarah, and by great grandchildren Joey, Leah, Charlotte and Shea. Laura was preceded in death by her husband, Duke, her parents, her brothers Roy, Henry, and Robert, her sister Irene, and granddaughter Laura.
Laura will be laid to rest with her husband in a private service at Dallas Ft Worth National Cemetery, Dallas, Texas.
Arrangements by:
Allen Family Funeral Options
Plano, Texas 75023
Laura Loyless Hobbs, homemaker and clubwoman, died on July 5, 2022. She was born February 16, 1928, in Pecos, Texas, the fourth child and youngest daughter of Roy and Mary Loyless. Roy lost his Dodge dealership in the Great Depression and the family moved to Galveston. Laura would always remember roller skating on the sea wall of that city and spending hours in the imposing Rosenberg library. Later, the family moved to Houston. Now with five children, the Loyless family persevered during the Depression. Her father, Roy took jobs as a salvage diver and a Marine Mechanic which often kept him away from home for extended periods of time.
Despite the Depression, Laura excelled in her schoolwork, she took swimming lessons at the Y and went to the movies with friends. For evening outings, she sometimes secretly borrowed dresses from her sister Irene's growing collection of stylish outfits (Irene worked in a fancy department store). Laura carefully returned items at evening end so her sister would not know what she had done. Only many years later did she learn that Irene invariably knew what she had borrowed.
In 1947, when a friend suggested a blind date with a handsome World War II vet studying at Texas A & M College, Laura jumped at the opportunity. Accordingly, one Saturday morning she boarded the train for the journey of about ninety miles north to College Station to meet Duke Hobbs and see an A & M football game. Photos from the time show a pretty, poised, and fashionably dressed young woman. The two hit it off, a courtship followed, and they were married in College Station on Valentine's Day 1948.
Laura worked for the college while Duke finished his studies. Upon graduation, he accepted a commission in the newly formed United States Air Force. The couple was stationed in San Antonio when their first son, David, was born. Through the early 1950s, they were stationed in bases from Louisiana to Florida to Ohio where Mark was born. Duke's classified intelligence work frequent required overseas postings that barred families from following. This left Laura the important but lonely work of holding down the home front. When Duke completed his active-duty tour in the Air Force, the family returned to Houston and Laura's family. But in 1957, Duke's thriving career took the family to Dallas, and there Laura would remain until 1986. The family was completed in 1961 with the birth of twin sons, Keith and Stuart.
The decades of the 1950s and sixties saw her busy with raising her four sons. She always maintained that she was glad to have had only sons, saying daughters were much harder to raise. She was an active mother, serving as Cub Scout Den Mother, making sure the children had cookies and milk when they came home from school, and reading to them at bedtime.
At the same time, Laura was a social person and a joiner. Through the late 1950s and sixties she played regular bridge games with neighbors and later took part in more elaborate bridge clubs. She would frequently host games, where Card tables filled the living room and den while women in dresses and high heels played Bridge, smoked cigarettes and enjoyed coffee and cake.
In the 1980s, when her sons Keith and Stuart attended Texas A & M University, she joined the local A & M Mother's Club. The group engaged in various projects to raise money for the university. Laura worked assiduously to channel these funds to scholarships and especially to the library. One year another Aggie Mom suggested raising funds for the football team. Laura demurred, observing that the team already had plenty of money and instead made the case for a gift to the Sterling C. Evans Library. Her opponent expressed doubts about the worthiness of the library, but Laura's proposal carried the day, and she later delighted in recalling that even other MENS organizations followed suit in supporting the library.
Most important to her was the Republican Women's Club. She came to the GOP through her husband during the Cold War. She was deeply influenced by the Alger Hiss Spy Case of the late 1940s and early fifties, and especially by Richard Nixon's efforts to expose Hiss. She remained a loyal Nixon supporter her entire life. Through the Republican Women's Club, she made lifelong friends and used her organizational skills putting together fund-raising campaigns, such as a fashion show in which she and other ladies showed off the high style of the 1890s. In 1972, at a Dallas fund raising event for Nixon, she shook hands with John Wayne and reported her surprise to see that he wore a toupee.
In 1986, Duke retired, and she moved with him back to where it all started, College Station. There she volunteered as a Docent at the University's Sark and Forsyth Art Galleries. She had great fun guiding student and other groups through the permanent collections of paintings, sculpture and art glass and viewing various traveling exhibits hosted by the gallery. Laura had a lifelong interest in art, and while her taste was not avant garde, it was sophisticated as demonstrated by her appreciation for her favorite artist, Gustave Caillebotte, a proto impressionist of singular vision.
Laura had travelled the country on family vacations throughout the sixties and seventies. Now in retirement, she and Duke travelled the world: England, Spain, Norway, Russia, and especially, the country she came to love, Italy.
As they entered their nineties Duke and Laura decided to move into an assisted living apartment in the Dallas suburb of Plano, to be near sons David and Keith, grand kids and great-grand kids. She missed her home in College Station, but stoically soldiered on. Duke died in 2021. Laura's strength steadily weakened, but her mind remained sharp and spirit feisty until the last several months of her life. Following a slow decline, she died peacefully at her home in, her own bed.
Laura is survived by her sons David (Sharon), Mark, Keith (John), and Stuart (Jamie), by her grandchildren Terence, Alicia, and Sarah, and by great grandchildren Joey, Leah, Charlotte and Shea. Laura was preceded in death by her husband, Duke, her parents, her brothers Roy, Henry, and Robert, her sister Irene, and granddaughter Laura.
Laura will be laid to rest with her husband in a private service at Dallas Ft Worth National Cemetery, Dallas, Texas.
Arrangements by:
Allen Family Funeral Options
Plano, Texas 75023
Full Birth Name: "Myrtle" Laura Loyless
Laura Loyless Hobbs, homemaker and clubwoman, died on July 5, 2022. She was born February 16, 1928, in Pecos, Texas, the fourth child and youngest daughter of Roy and Mary Loyless. Roy lost his Dodge dealership in the Great Depression and the family moved to Galveston. Laura would always remember roller skating on the sea wall of that city and spending hours in the imposing Rosenberg library. Later, the family moved to Houston. Now with five children, the Loyless family persevered during the Depression. Her father, Roy took jobs as a salvage diver and a Marine Mechanic which often kept him away from home for extended periods of time.
Despite the Depression, Laura excelled in her schoolwork, she took swimming lessons at the Y and went to the movies with friends. For evening outings, she sometimes secretly borrowed dresses from her sister Irene's growing collection of stylish outfits (Irene worked in a fancy department store). Laura carefully returned items at evening end so her sister would not know what she had done. Only many years later did she learn that Irene invariably knew what she had borrowed.
In 1947, when a friend suggested a blind date with a handsome World War II vet studying at Texas A & M College, Laura jumped at the opportunity. Accordingly, one Saturday morning she boarded the train for the journey of about ninety miles north to College Station to meet Duke Hobbs and see an A & M football game. Photos from the time show a pretty, poised, and fashionably dressed young woman. The two hit it off, a courtship followed, and they were married in College Station on Valentine's Day 1948.
Laura worked for the college while Duke finished his studies. Upon graduation, he accepted a commission in the newly formed United States Air Force. The couple was stationed in San Antonio when their first son, David, was born. Through the early 1950s, they were stationed in bases from Louisiana to Florida to Ohio where Mark was born. Duke's classified intelligence work frequent required overseas postings that barred families from following. This left Laura the important but lonely work of holding down the home front. When Duke completed his active-duty tour in the Air Force, the family returned to Houston and Laura's family. But in 1957, Duke's thriving career took the family to Dallas, and there Laura would remain until 1986. The family was completed in 1961 with the birth of twin sons, Keith and Stuart.
The decades of the 1950s and sixties saw her busy with raising her four sons. She always maintained that she was glad to have had only sons, saying daughters were much harder to raise. She was an active mother, serving as Cub Scout Den Mother, making sure the children had cookies and milk when they came home from school, and reading to them at bedtime.
At the same time, Laura was a social person and a joiner. Through the late 1950s and sixties she played regular bridge games with neighbors and later took part in more elaborate bridge clubs. She would frequently host games, where Card tables filled the living room and den while women in dresses and high heels played Bridge, smoked cigarettes and enjoyed coffee and cake.
In the 1980s, when her sons Keith and Stuart attended Texas A & M University, she joined the local A & M Mother's Club. The group engaged in various projects to raise money for the university. Laura worked assiduously to channel these funds to scholarships and especially to the library. One year another Aggie Mom suggested raising funds for the football team. Laura demurred, observing that the team already had plenty of money and instead made the case for a gift to the Sterling C. Evans Library. Her opponent expressed doubts about the worthiness of the library, but Laura's proposal carried the day, and she later delighted in recalling that even other MENS organizations followed suit in supporting the library.
Most important to her was the Republican Women's Club. She came to the GOP through her husband during the Cold War. She was deeply influenced by the Alger Hiss Spy Case of the late 1940s and early fifties, and especially by Richard Nixon's efforts to expose Hiss. She remained a loyal Nixon supporter her entire life. Through the Republican Women's Club, she made lifelong friends and used her organizational skills putting together fund-raising campaigns, such as a fashion show in which she and other ladies showed off the high style of the 1890s. In 1972, at a Dallas fund raising event for Nixon, she shook hands with John Wayne and reported her surprise to see that he wore a toupee.
In 1986, Duke retired, and she moved with him back to where it all started, College Station. There she volunteered as a Docent at the University's Sark and Forsyth Art Galleries. She had great fun guiding student and other groups through the permanent collections of paintings, sculpture and art glass and viewing various traveling exhibits hosted by the gallery. Laura had a lifelong interest in art, and while her taste was not avant garde, it was sophisticated as demonstrated by her appreciation for her favorite artist, Gustave Caillebotte, a proto impressionist of singular vision.
Laura had travelled the country on family vacations throughout the sixties and seventies. Now in retirement, she and Duke travelled the world: England, Spain, Norway, Russia, and especially, the country she came to love, Italy.
As they entered their nineties Duke and Laura decided to move into an assisted living apartment in the Dallas suburb of Plano, to be near sons David and Keith, grand kids and great-grand kids. She missed her home in College Station, but stoically soldiered on. Duke died in 2021. Laura's strength steadily weakened, but her mind remained sharp and spirit feisty until the last several months of her life. Following a slow decline, she died peacefully at her home in, her own bed.
Laura is survived by her sons David (Sharon), Mark, Keith (John), and Stuart (Jamie), by her grandchildren Terence, Alicia, and Sarah, and by great grandchildren Joey, Leah, Charlotte and Shea. Laura was preceded in death by her husband, Duke, her parents, her brothers Roy, Henry, and Robert, her sister Irene, and granddaughter Laura.
Laura will be laid to rest with her husband in a private service at Dallas Ft Worth National Cemetery, Dallas, Texas.
Arrangements by:
Allen Family Funeral Options
Plano, Texas 75023
Laura Loyless Hobbs, homemaker and clubwoman, died on July 5, 2022. She was born February 16, 1928, in Pecos, Texas, the fourth child and youngest daughter of Roy and Mary Loyless. Roy lost his Dodge dealership in the Great Depression and the family moved to Galveston. Laura would always remember roller skating on the sea wall of that city and spending hours in the imposing Rosenberg library. Later, the family moved to Houston. Now with five children, the Loyless family persevered during the Depression. Her father, Roy took jobs as a salvage diver and a Marine Mechanic which often kept him away from home for extended periods of time.
Despite the Depression, Laura excelled in her schoolwork, she took swimming lessons at the Y and went to the movies with friends. For evening outings, she sometimes secretly borrowed dresses from her sister Irene's growing collection of stylish outfits (Irene worked in a fancy department store). Laura carefully returned items at evening end so her sister would not know what she had done. Only many years later did she learn that Irene invariably knew what she had borrowed.
In 1947, when a friend suggested a blind date with a handsome World War II vet studying at Texas A & M College, Laura jumped at the opportunity. Accordingly, one Saturday morning she boarded the train for the journey of about ninety miles north to College Station to meet Duke Hobbs and see an A & M football game. Photos from the time show a pretty, poised, and fashionably dressed young woman. The two hit it off, a courtship followed, and they were married in College Station on Valentine's Day 1948.
Laura worked for the college while Duke finished his studies. Upon graduation, he accepted a commission in the newly formed United States Air Force. The couple was stationed in San Antonio when their first son, David, was born. Through the early 1950s, they were stationed in bases from Louisiana to Florida to Ohio where Mark was born. Duke's classified intelligence work frequent required overseas postings that barred families from following. This left Laura the important but lonely work of holding down the home front. When Duke completed his active-duty tour in the Air Force, the family returned to Houston and Laura's family. But in 1957, Duke's thriving career took the family to Dallas, and there Laura would remain until 1986. The family was completed in 1961 with the birth of twin sons, Keith and Stuart.
The decades of the 1950s and sixties saw her busy with raising her four sons. She always maintained that she was glad to have had only sons, saying daughters were much harder to raise. She was an active mother, serving as Cub Scout Den Mother, making sure the children had cookies and milk when they came home from school, and reading to them at bedtime.
At the same time, Laura was a social person and a joiner. Through the late 1950s and sixties she played regular bridge games with neighbors and later took part in more elaborate bridge clubs. She would frequently host games, where Card tables filled the living room and den while women in dresses and high heels played Bridge, smoked cigarettes and enjoyed coffee and cake.
In the 1980s, when her sons Keith and Stuart attended Texas A & M University, she joined the local A & M Mother's Club. The group engaged in various projects to raise money for the university. Laura worked assiduously to channel these funds to scholarships and especially to the library. One year another Aggie Mom suggested raising funds for the football team. Laura demurred, observing that the team already had plenty of money and instead made the case for a gift to the Sterling C. Evans Library. Her opponent expressed doubts about the worthiness of the library, but Laura's proposal carried the day, and she later delighted in recalling that even other MENS organizations followed suit in supporting the library.
Most important to her was the Republican Women's Club. She came to the GOP through her husband during the Cold War. She was deeply influenced by the Alger Hiss Spy Case of the late 1940s and early fifties, and especially by Richard Nixon's efforts to expose Hiss. She remained a loyal Nixon supporter her entire life. Through the Republican Women's Club, she made lifelong friends and used her organizational skills putting together fund-raising campaigns, such as a fashion show in which she and other ladies showed off the high style of the 1890s. In 1972, at a Dallas fund raising event for Nixon, she shook hands with John Wayne and reported her surprise to see that he wore a toupee.
In 1986, Duke retired, and she moved with him back to where it all started, College Station. There she volunteered as a Docent at the University's Sark and Forsyth Art Galleries. She had great fun guiding student and other groups through the permanent collections of paintings, sculpture and art glass and viewing various traveling exhibits hosted by the gallery. Laura had a lifelong interest in art, and while her taste was not avant garde, it was sophisticated as demonstrated by her appreciation for her favorite artist, Gustave Caillebotte, a proto impressionist of singular vision.
Laura had travelled the country on family vacations throughout the sixties and seventies. Now in retirement, she and Duke travelled the world: England, Spain, Norway, Russia, and especially, the country she came to love, Italy.
As they entered their nineties Duke and Laura decided to move into an assisted living apartment in the Dallas suburb of Plano, to be near sons David and Keith, grand kids and great-grand kids. She missed her home in College Station, but stoically soldiered on. Duke died in 2021. Laura's strength steadily weakened, but her mind remained sharp and spirit feisty until the last several months of her life. Following a slow decline, she died peacefully at her home in, her own bed.
Laura is survived by her sons David (Sharon), Mark, Keith (John), and Stuart (Jamie), by her grandchildren Terence, Alicia, and Sarah, and by great grandchildren Joey, Leah, Charlotte and Shea. Laura was preceded in death by her husband, Duke, her parents, her brothers Roy, Henry, and Robert, her sister Irene, and granddaughter Laura.
Laura will be laid to rest with her husband in a private service at Dallas Ft Worth National Cemetery, Dallas, Texas.
Arrangements by:
Allen Family Funeral Options
Plano, Texas 75023
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