Funeral services for Bro. Bobby Powell, age 88, of Brownwood, will be at 2:00 PM, Sunday, January 12, 2014 in the Heartland Funeral Home Chapel. Burial with military honors will follow in the Richland Springs Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Saturday evening from 6:00 until 8:00.
Heavens gates were opened wide and the Angels were rejoicing as Bro. Bobby Powell entered through the Pearly Gates to be with loved ones gone before. He will hear the words “Well done thy good and faithful servant, enter into the gates of Heaven; thy work on earth is done!”
Bobby Dean Powell, born September 14, 1925 to William Reed Powell and Robbie Angeline Burk entered the gates on January 9, 2014. He leaves behind a daughter, Peggy Powell of Brownwood, and a son Tommy Dean Powell and wife Barbara of Cimarron, NM. Three grandchildren, Felicia Zagorski and husband Andy of Portales, NM; Tameisha Bolen and husband Rowdy of Smyer, TX; and Bucky Dean Powell and wife Nira of Amistad, NM; great grandchildren, Amy and Tyler Dean Powell and two step great granddaughters, Alyssa and Reese Bolen; three sisters Florence Titlow of Tennessee Colony, TX; Vera Christian of Bartlesville, OK; and Ida Mae Parks of Arp, TX; two brothers, Wayne Powell of Richland Springs, TX and Norman Powell of Arp, TX, and numerous nieces and nephews. All participate in the celebration of his life.
He is preceded in death by his wife of 62 years, Wynogene King Powell, his parents Reed and Robbie, brothers Bea, John “Dink”, Leon and Melvin and sisters Ruth Massey Churchwell and Annie Jeffery.
Bobby is a World War II and Korean veteran. He was a Southern Baptist minister for over 50 years at multiple churches throughout Texas, including First Baptist Church, Douglass, Carlisle Baptist, Henderson, Southside Baptist, Carthage and FBC Melvin. For the past nine years he has served as the chaplain for Good Samaritan Ministries. He would often say he had to go and collect his hugs from the ladies who worked there. His doctor told him it was okay to hug ‘em, just not pick them up.
He was always a cowboy at heart as cows and horses were one of the interests he had. A favorite activity was to visit his son in New Mexico, to see God’s handiwork so magnificently displayed. Many, many people knew him, loved him and were blessed by his life. He leaves a Bobby shaped hole in each heart that no one else can fill.
Condolences can be offered to the family at www.heartlandfuneralhome.net