Robert Francis Neal Hutchison

Robert Francis Neal “Bob” Hutchison, 86, was born Sept. 5, 1933, to Ruby May Whitley Hutchison and Walter Howard Hutchison at the home in rural Walker. He passed away Dec. 10,  at  Moore-Few Care Center as a result of Thyroid Cancer.

Bob was the second of seven children. He went to Mobley School grades one thru eight.

He loved the farm, started driving his Dad’s gravel truck before he had a license, milked several cows a day by hand with his mom, and loved to put up square bales of hay. Bob and a neighbor boy bought an old Model T. car that was his first love.

He was drafted into the U.S. Army in November of 1953, so he married Margaret Jane Hawkins before he left for basic training at Ft. Riley, Kansas. Bob then shipped to Seoul, South Korea, where he fixed the generator that ran the electricity for the base. From then on, he acquired the job of running that generator. One day after coming in from a hike he found a telegram on his bed informing him of his new baby daughter, Deborah Jane.

Returning home by ship in November of 1955 Bob farmed and drove a truck. He helped start the C.P.W.S.D #1 in Harwood, was on the Walker Bank Board, Walker School Board, ASCS Committee member, Mt. Vernon Cemetery Board, Charter member of 54 Cruisers Car Club and loved calling Square Dances for several years.

Bob started buying antique cars and trucks and decided that was easier than farming. He sold the farms and moved back to the original farm place where he collected several hundred cars. He later sold most of the cars which broke his heart and then he had two mini-strokes. After recuperating from two mini-strokes, he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and received treatments for the following three years. He always said he didn’t hurt. 

Bob is survived by his wife, Jane, of the home; their four children – Deborah Wallace and her husband, Denny, Nevada, Robert Hutchison and his wife, Karen, of Walnut Grove, Arlene Good and her husband, Mike, of Nevada, and Kent Hutchison of Camdenton,. Then came their grandchildren which he dearly loved – Jennifer Lanham and her husband, John, Valerie Hardy, Ryan Wallace, Chasidee Hutchison, Corie Hutchison, Grant Hutchison, Bethany Stewart and husband, Geoff, Miranda Bronson, Eric Good and wife, Chris, Rilie Brandt and husband.Jamin, Saundra Hutchison, Stephany Hopkins and husband Brandon, Shelly Von Sande and husband, Matt; his favorite great grand-children – Spencer, Sydney, Paxton, Jayna, Bryson and his wife, Lauren, Addison, Colin, Cale, Grady, Sophie, Memphis, Nash, Emerys, Amarah, Tripp, Kinsley, Sawyer, Wesley, Charlotte, and Samuel.  Also surviving are his brother, Donald Hutchison; sisters – Marvalene Troyer, 

Emily Reynolds and Wanda Hulett; brother-in-law, Kenneth Horning,;“kissing cousin,” Roberta Wagner, and his longtime special friend, Gary Charles, and numerous nieces, nephews, friends and neighbors.   Bob was preceded in death by his grandparents, his parents and two sisters, Norma Jean Horning and Betty Bartkoski.

Services were held on Friday, Dec. 13, at Ferry Funeral Home in Nevada with Rev. Joe Thomas officiating. Interment with Military Honors followed in Mt. Vernon Cemetery, Walker. 

Those who wish may contribute to the Mt Vernon Cemetery in Bob’s memory.  

You may view obituary and send condolences online at www.ferryfuneralhome.com.