Bob Day
Funeral services for Bob Day, 87, long time Clinton resident, will be held at 10:30 a.m. today in the First United Methodist Church.
He died Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015, at the United Methodist Health Care Center in Clinton.
Bobbie Gene Day was born March 15, 1928, in Leedey, the son of George Dennis Day and Bertha Mildred Twyman. He was raised in the Trail Flats area near Leedey. He started his schooling at Trail Flats and attended there until its closing, when he transferred to Leedey where he graduated in 1946.
He married Betty Lee Long Oct. 25, 1946, in Oklahoma City.
The couple soon moved to Stillwater where Day attended A&M College (now Oklahoma State University) and was a part of the ROTC program. He received a degree in agriculture in 1951, and was commissioned into the U.S. Army that same year. After serving in Korea, he received an honorable discharge in 1953 and returned home. He was a member of the U.S. Army Reserve for the next eight years.
Day and his wife made their home in Clinton and he began a career as an agriculture engineer for the Soil Conservation Service, serving 33½ years before retiring in 1985. He then became employed in his son’s optometry practice and helped there until 2012.
He was a member of the First United Methodist Church, the American Legion, and the Evening Lions Club. He enjoyed quail hunting, woodworking and farming, but his passion was spending time with his family.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Eddie Day.
He is survived by his wife of almost 69 years, Betty, of the home; two sons, Dan Day and his wife, Betty, and Dr. Pat Day and his wife, Suzanne, all of Clinton; two brothers, Donnie Day and his wife, Sara, of Urbana, Ill., and Charles Day of Leedey; a sister-in-law, Lola Day, of Clinton; four grandchildren, Vince Day, Angie Brinkley and her husband, Michael, all of Clinton, and Mandy Richardson and her husband, Issac, and Kenny Day and his wife, Randi, all of Arapaho; 11 great-grandchildren and numerous other cousins and family members in the Leedey area.
Services will be officiated by Rev. Roland Youngberg. A private burial will follow in the Clinton Cemetery under direction of Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home.