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In Memory

Robert (Bob) Price - Class Of 1945

OBITUARY INFORMATION FROM FIND-A-GRAVE WEBSITE:

Robert Lawrence “Bob” Price
Birth          1 Jan 1927, Hobart, Lake County, Indiana, USA
Death          7 Mar 2001 (aged 74), Hobart, Lake County, Indiana, USA
Burial         Calumet Park Cemetery, Merrillville, Lake County, Indiana, USA
Memorial ID    205489367

Obituary for Robert L. Price as it appears in The Times based in Munster, Indiana
Robert L. Price
Hobart

Robert L. Price, 74, of Hobart, passed away Wednesday, March 7, 2001. Bob retired from I.B.E.W. Local 697 in 1989. He was a Hobart High School graduate, class of 1945.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Percy and Kathryn Price and his first wife, Gwendolyn (nee Sohn). Bob is survived by his wife of 23 years, Shirley (nee Carstensen); four daughters, Lynn Heller and Kim (Roger) Hunt, both of Hobart, Jill Jones of Alabama and Shirlee (Bill) Boyd of Minnesota; his brother John (Jo) Price of Arkansas; four sisters: Norma Wilson, Nancy (Bill) Crussen, Patricia (Robert) Howisen and Linda (Jim) Lindsay; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. He will be sadly missed as well by his six stepchildren: Linda Tolliver, Ron (Vickie) Hamilton, James Hamilton, Nancy Hamilton and Susan Soria, all of Hobart, Bill Hamilton of California; 20 step grandchildren and one step great-grandchildren.

Funeral services are Monday, March 12, 2001, 11 a.m. at the Rees Funeral Home, 600 West Old Ridge Road, Hobart, IN. Burial at Calumet Park Cemetery with Rev. Wesley Crest officiating. Friends may visit on Sunday from 2 to 9 p.m. at Rees Funeral Home, Hobart Chapel.

This information was obtained from: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/205489367/robert-lawrence-price. The picture above was obtained from the 1945 HHS Aurora yearbook, made available by the Lake County Public Library, at: https://archive.org/details/HOHS1945Images/.


INFORMATION FROM FAMILY SEARCH WEBSITE:

Brief Life History of Robert Lawrence

When Robert Lawrence Price was born on 1 January 1927, in Gary, Lake, Indiana, United States, his father, Percy Lawrence Price, was 22 and his mother, Kathryn Adeline Wynkoop, was 20. He married Gwendolyn Louise Sohn on 16 January 1948, in Indiana, United States. He died on 7 March 2001, in Hobart, Ross Township, Lake, Indiana, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Merrillville, Ross Township, Lake, Indiana, United States.

This information was obtained from: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/about/GQN7-MPN.


PICTURE FROM ANCESTRY.COM:

Robert Price obit pic, Class of 1945                                                                                                                                                      
This picture was obtained from: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/108771335/person/410069193296/gallery?galleryPage=1&tab=0&sort=-created.