Rev. Bobby Eugene Bohannon

WEATHERFORD -- Reverend Bobby Eugene Bohannon, Ordained Bishop in the Church of God passed away on Dec. 26, 2015 in Ft. Worth, at the age of 84 years. Services will be held at the North Main Church of God in Weatherford, on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015 at 12:00 p.m., officiated by T. Wayne Dority, Administrative Bishop for Ohio Churches of God. Interment: 5:00 p.m. Thursday in Highland Cemetery in Iowa Park. Visitation: 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Wednesday at White's Funeral Home, 130 Houston Ave., Weatherford. He was born on February 8, 1931 in Dalhart to Aubrey Lee and Zona Josephine Voyles Bohannon. His early life was spent in Texas, Oklahoma and North Carolina. His family moved back to Texas from North Carolina in December of 1943 and lived on the old highway between Electra and Iowa Park. He attended school in Electra and Iowa Park. He worked various jobs as a young man, one of them being in the Upholstery profession. He learned to sew and re-upholster furniture at the age of 12 in a Furniture Factory in North Carolina where his father worked. He had a reputation as an excellent upholsterer both with furniture and auto interiors. He married Martha Anne White on November 24, 1950 and they became the parents of three children, Anne, Danny and Steve. She passed away in June of 1954. He married Barbara Ann Northcutt on December 26, 1954 and became the parent of two daughters, Linda and Janice and together they raised their five children. Barbara passed away on November 24, 2000. He married Joyce Smith Slayton on July 12, 2006. He felt the call into the ministry as a young man and began to preach in 1953. He pastored Church of God congregations in Tulsa, Okla. and Childress, Olney, Mt. Vernon, Vernon, Sherman, Big Spring, Abilene and Amarillo, Texas, the last one being the Quaker Avenue Church of God in Lubbock for 38 years until his retirement at the age of 83 years in November of 2014. He received his higher education at Grayson County College and Howard College in Big Spring. Upon retiring he and Joyce moved to Weatherford. From August of 1972 until August of 1976 he served as Home Missions and Evangelism Director for the Church of God Denomination in Texas organizing many churches during that time. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Southwest Indian Ministries for the Church of God, headquartered in Cleveland, Tenn. for eight years as well as the Benevolence Board. He not only served as senior pastor, but as District Overseer for many churches throughout his ministry as well as serving on the Texas Church of God Youth and Discipleship Board, Evangelism and Home Missions Board and State Council throughout his sixty-two years of active ministry. He served as a reserve deputy and Chaplain of the Sheriff's Dept. under Lubbock County Sheriff, Sonny Keessee. He served on the Spiritual Life Committee and the committee of renovate the Hospitality Room at Covenant Medical Center. He loved to hunt and fish and spent many hours with his grandsons running greyhounds and wolfhounds around the outlying Lubbock area and deer hunting in East Texas. He was an incredible student of the Bible and one of his greatest delights was discussing scripture for hours at a time with anyone willing to engage. To his children and grandchildren he was always bigger than life. He was preceded in death by his parents; son, Danny; three sisters, Frankie Lee Bohannon, Darlene Cope and Eva Jo Hacker. He is survived by wife, Joyce of Weatherford; one son, Steve (Sherri) of Lubbock; three daughters, Anne (Mark) Compton of Bloomberg, Linda (John) Oakley of Nashville, Tenn. and Janice (Chad) Floyd of Lubbock; four brothers, Aubrey (Louise) of Iowa Park, Dale of Lubbock, Dean (Kandy) of Lubbock, and Gordon (Denise) of Levelland; three sisters, Loretta (Gary) Chandler of Wichita Falls, Sharon (Jerry) Trentham of Louisville, Kentucky and Gayle (Robert) Fletcher of Henrietta, Texas; eleven grandchildren; eighteen great-grandchildren; four great great grandchildren; two stepchildren, James Slayton and Jamie Rogers and their children and grandchildren all of whom adored Papa Bo as he was affectionately known. Also surviving him are many nieces and nephews who loved their Uncle Bobby. Pallbearers will be grandsons. White's Funeral Home Weatherford, 817-596-4811