Robert Tipton

Bobby Gene was born into this world to Maxine and Chester Tipton on January 18, 1959 in St. Louis, Mo. He was the fourth child out of five. When he was four, him and his dad went to Arizona to work while the rest of the family stayed in Missouri. He would stay with his dad while he worked and they would sleep in the car at night. He could come up with some off the wall things to say that started when he was young and went into his adult years. He lived in different places growing up and finally landed back in Arizona to stay. He went to elementary school at Hale where his own kids attended. In junior high, he went to Kino where his youngest son also attended. In high school he attended Westwood as his oldest son dropped out of in the 10^th grade. In high school, Bob met Marc Randall who became his best friend for 34 years. Bob was supposed to go into the Army with Marc but chickened out at the last minute so Marc had to go alone. They used to do everything together. Marc’s mom thought Bob was a bad influence on Marc. Bob dated a lot of girls and met Lori and married her and in 1979 had his first son Ryan. They divorced after a year or so. Then one night at BC’s Cave, he was standing by the front door with Doug Nelson when the love of his life, Terri, walked in and he had her at hello. From that moment on they started dating and Bob took to Terri’s 1 month old baby daughter, Krystle, like she was his own. He used to size her up like a bread box when he would tell everyone that he had a baby daughter and she was this big. Five weeks after they met, they were married and less than a year into the marriage they welcomed their first son, Justin. Two years later they welcomed their second son, Christopher. And two years after that they welcomed their son, Anthony. Bob loved to fish, hunt, go camping, his kids and family. They almost lost Anthony before he was born. But a little bed rest and he was fine. Then when they went camping one time, they almost lost Christopher by drowning. He slipped off a rock and went straight into the muddy water. Bob ended up going down twice to find him and luckily he did. Everyone’s heart sank the first time he didn’t bring him up. Bob and Terri had 2 Grandchildren, Pricilla Rain and Garrett Nathaniel. They were his babies. Bob and Terri were married for 18 years, divorced for 6 (but two of those years they were back together) and then re-married for one year before that fateful day, June 22, 2008, when God took him Home. May you Rest In Peace! One week, one day and one hour later, Bob’s oldest brother was taken Home also. They are together forever.