Rita Eugenia Glover

Rita was an intelligent, loving and giving woman, who in her youth excelled as a student and was an excellent Canasta player. Her particular analytic abilities helped her excel her entire life at all strategic card games which she won with monotonous frequency.

Rita loved, followed and supported her husband Bobby through multiple moves, throughout Florida and Kentucky. Married at young age, she learned to be an amazing cook and is remembered to this day for her biscuits, pork chops and meat loaf. She learned to be a seamstress, so skilled that she could make all of her daughters’ and her own clothes, and went on to be commissioned to sew designs for others. Raised as a suburban girl, she learned to be a gardener extraordinaire, and fed her family many years from her crops. She could can and freeze, and made the most amazing blackberry preserves from wild blackberries growing in the area of their Kentucky home, picked with her children.

She supported her husband in his dreams and businesses, as well as being the glue that held the family together. No matter the challenges or circumstances, she made it work. Rita was a bookkeeper, administrator, contractor, and partner for all the various ventures they began in their lives. She and Bobby were a well-matched team. While Bobby had the dreams and the talent to start a business of any kind, Rita was right there with him, filling out and organizing the details to the dream, and learning the business to be knowledgeable in her own right.

Most of all, Rita was an amazing mother to her four daughters (and numerous honorable daughters). She loved them each as their own person, and nurtured their dreams. She and Bobby made education a priority for their children no matter where they lived, and supported whatever dreams their daughters had, even if those dreams were not practical for their situation. Rita and Bobby did not see limits for their daughters, but rather opportunities, and they seemed to find a way to allow their daughters to pursue their education.

Rita made her house a welcoming home for all, and a wonderful home for her family. In their last big venture of creating a boarding and training stable in Spring Hill, she and Bobby made a wonderful retreat for their grandchildren as well as for many other children who came to their farm. They hosted trail rides for St. Jude, New Years Even bonfires and cookouts, horse shows, and sleepovers, all with the goal of having family and friends join them in this journey of their lives.

Rita was predeceased by her husband Bobby Leroy Glover, as well as her parents Charles and Virginia Kohls, son-in-law Eugene Aymar Moore, and brother-in-law William Kampmeyer. Rita is survived by her four daughters; Rita Sobat (Kevin), Barbara Glover Moore (Michael) , Deborah Glover (Steve), and Patricia Kallenbach (Heiko). Rita is also survived by her siblings; her sister Christine Kampmeyer, brothers John Kohls (Kathy) and Richard Kohls (Ann). As well as six beloved grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, and cherished nieces and nephews.

A celebration of the life of Rita E. Glover will be held on March 2, 2024 at her family farm, Glover's Stables, 20014 Twin Oaks Road, Spring Hill, Florida 34610 from 11:00am - 2:00pm. We are providing lunch in her honor at 12:00. Come share memories of Rita with her family, loved ones and friends.