Tift-Bibb-Coffee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hobby, Rube "Rubin" March 5, 1971 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: William J. (Jim) Carroll williamcarrollj@bellsouth.net February 22, 2013, 8:33 pm The Daily Tifton Gazette 3-6-1971 Page 10 Rube Hobby, Formerly of Tifton, Dies in Macon; Funeral Sunday Rube Hobby, 78, of Macon, formerly of Tifton, died at 10am Friday in Macon. Funeral services will be at 3pm Sunday at Liberty Baptist Chrurch with the Rev. L. B. Allen officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Hobby, a retired farmer, was born Feb. 4, 1893, in Coffee County to Jesse Hobby and Malinda Hobby. He moved to Macon from Tifton 14 years ago. He was married to the former Vollie McDaniel, who died in 1962 ( actually 1964). Surviving are three sons, Clifford E. Hobby and Jessie J. Hobby, both of Macon and Roscoe Hobby of Tifton; five daughters, Mrs. Ouida Newbern, Mrs. Beatrice Whiddon and Mrs. Juanita Walston, all of Macon, Mrs. Ella Mae Horton of Tifton, and Mrs. Wille Mae Hurst of Titusville, Fla.; one brother, George Hobby of Lakeland; and three sisters, Mrs. Nan Turner of Macon, Mrs. Polly Jordan of Fitzgerald and Mrs. Jane Brown of Poulan. Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals is in charge of arrangements. Additional Comments: Georgia death certificate #003973. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/tift/obits/h/hobby2916nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb