Bobby Ray Roberts went to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on April 15, 2025, in Brownwood, TX. Bobby was born in Sunray, TX, he was 85 years old and was the middle of three boys. Bobby is survived by his two children Brad Roberts and his wife Jamie, and Teri Lyn Thomas and her husband Harold; five grandkids Kenneth Thomas, Amy Henson, Deshea Bevers, Ryan Roberts, Cyle Bevers, Heather Anderson; and eleven great grandkids. Bobby was proceeded in death by his parents Pat and Wanda Roberts, brother Jackie Roberts, and his loving wife of 45 years Phyllis Ann Roberts whom he dated all through school in Eunice, NM and eventually moved to Denver City.
Bobby started his own welding business, before relocating to Odessa, TX. There he began his career as a pipeline welder and traveled all over the United States. He was a pipeline welder through and through. Some of his close friends called him “One-eyed Bob,” because he lost his right eye when he was young boy. As Bobby aged, he became a pipeline welding inspector and continued to travel. Wherever Bobby and Phyllis went they made lifelong friends.
Bobby loved to hunt and fish. He made many memories with his kids, especially his son Bradley, when they went mule deer hunting, Elk hunting in Colorado, and catfish fishing on the Rio Grande River near Langtry, TX. Bobby was right-handed but had to learn to shoot left-handed due to his missing eye, but he never complained.
At the end of Bobby’s career, he was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2006. He went through the treatments after surgery and was cancer free. After retiring, Bobby stayed active in the Odessa Community by joining the Prison Ministry through his church and served the homeless every Saturday with his friend Charles Reynolds, which he loved to do.
Bobby eventually moved to Brownwood, TX to live with his daughter, Teri and her husband, Harold Thomas. After a while and due to his declining health, he was placed at a nursing & rehab facility, where Bobby was the life of the party. The Staff and residents all loved him and became a part of his family and ours.
A graveside memorial will be held for Bobby Roberts at Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Odessa, Texas on April 26, 2025, at 11:00am, where he will be laid to rest next to the love of his life, his wife, Phyllis Ann Roberts. Family and friends will be served lunch after the service at Chapel Hill Baptist Church. Arrangements are under the direction of Blaylock Funeral Home.
The family requests, that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Oakridge Manor Nursing & Rehab. Activity Fund, Brownwood, TX, American Cancer Society and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in honor of Bobby Ray Roberts.