Funeral services for William Robert “Bob” Brockman, 96, will take place at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 14 at the First Baptist Church of Richland Springs. Interment will follow at the Richland Springs Cemetery. Blaylock Funeral Home of San Saba is in charge of arrangements.

Bob was born to Harry and Hazel Brockman in Harding County New Mexico on January 3, 1926.  He enlisted in the U. S. Army on May 29, 1944 during World War II and served in the engineering corp in Europe and in the Pacific area.  He was discharged from the Army in 1946.

Bob attended Baylor University where he met his future wife Mary Edith Taylor.  They were married on June 4, 1949.  Bob and his wife Mary Edith (deceased), raised three children; Dixie and husband Galen Guillory, Rob Brockman and wife Kathy, and Tim Brockman.  He has eight grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, and 2 great great -grandchildren.  He was preceded in death by his parents, Mary Edith, and Lottie Zant.

Bob graduated from Baylor University in 1951 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theology.  He was ordained and served as a Southern Baptist Minister from 1949 to semi-retirement in 1980.  He pastured churches in New Mexico, Texas, and Utah and served on numerous associational and state positions with the Southern Baptists. 

“If Brockman built it, it is well built.”  This motto was adopted when Bob and his two sons moved to Richland Springs, Texas in 1980 and formed Brockman Construction.  He was active in missions in Mexico and help build churches there.

A few years after the death of Mary Edith he married Lottie Zant and they were in involved in the prison ministry and continued with the mission programs in Mexico.

Bob Brockman lived for the glory of his Lord, leading many to Christ and touching the many lives he came in contact with during his 96 years as a Preacher, Pastor, Carpenter, Electrician, and Friend.  He will be greatly missed by his family and friends.