Mr Robert "Bob" Youngblood

Graveside services for Mr. Robert "Bob" Youngblood 80, of Emerald Bay will be at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, May 21, 2016 at Bethel Cemetery with Rev Jay Riley officiating. Interment will follow under the direction of Crawford-A. Crim Funeral Home. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at Emerald Bay Community Church with Dr. Darrell Dunks and Rev. Jay Riley officiating. The family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m., Friday, May 20, 2016 at the funeral home. He was born July 9th, 1935 to parents Allen E. and Pauline Mitchell Youngblood in Henderson, Texas, passed away suddenly Monday, May 16th, 2016 in New Mexico while on vacation. Bob graduated from Henderson High School as the Senior Class President in 1953. He then attended and graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University with a Bachelor of Business Arts in 1958. It was in Port Arthur, Texas where he was working for Jefferson Chemical Company that he met his future wife, Jane Teel Youngblood because they had same last name. After marriage in 1960, the couple moved to Henderson to start a family and help Bob’s father with the farm. A small business selling strawberries was developed and continued until 1965. Bob was then employed at Pritchard and Abbott in Henderson, where he worked for a number of years in the oil and gas property department. He was on the board for the development of the Gregg County Oil and Gas Museum in Kilgore, Texas. In 1983, Bob moved to Dallas to work with Mobil Corporation in their oil and gas property division. After taking early retirement in 1996, he and Jane moved to the Emerald Bay community outside of Tyler, Texas, where he served on numerous committees at Emerald Bay Community Church, most notably the choir. In January 2014, after suffering the death of Jane, Bob met and married LaVonda Ellis of Tyler, and they enjoyed two very happy years together. In addition to his wife, Bob is survived by his twin sister, Polly Britain of Tyler, and by his younger sister, Sarah Copeland of Henderson; his daughter and her husband, Mary Catherine and Scott Stephenson of Dallas, his son Robert Allen Youngblood II and his wife, Melissa, of Henderson; five grandchildren: Benjamin, James and John Stephenson, and Brandon and Jessica Youngblood, as well as a host of cousins ,stepchildren, stepgrandchildren, and neices and nephews. Pallbearers will be Benjamin Stephenson, James Stephenson, John Stephenson, Brandon Youngblood, Jessica Youngblood. Honorary pallbearers will be the Golden T's. Words of comfort may be shared with the family at www.crawfordacrim.com.

Mr Robert "Bob" Youngblood

July 9, 1935 - May 16, 2016