Robin, Pam, and Leslie........Prayers and thoughts are with you.   Take care.

Leslie and Robin - I'm so sorry for your loss.  My best to both of you!

Wayne Harris (Rochester, NY)

I'm sorry to hear of the loss of your dad and grandfather.  Your family will be in our thoughts and prayers.  God bless you all.
Ed Parkhurst, Oakdale

Robin, Leslie & Pam -
Sorry to read of your loss. 

Cathy Filson Cooper

Bob was a great and wonderful brother.  He was eight years older but I still have a lot of good memories.  Most of them are when we moved back to Bloomington in 1953. I will add one "tale" that I remember from Decatur.  We built a concrete block four room home with an outhouse, no less, that we lived in until moving back to Bloomington. BUT before that Bob made the news!  Dad went out to get in our one car to go to work, I assume.  The car was missing under the carport.  Bob had taken the car, maybe he was 16 with a drivers license, I hope.  He got his girlfriend and decided to take off to ?? Anyway, the event was on television, etc.  Bob, of course, finally came home. Not sure if it was on his own or by police!!! We lived in this little house on ten acres that literally was built by the hands of Dad and probably some friends.  Dad farmed, worked as a tool and die maker, and Mom was a housewife, of course.  Well you could get bored way out in the country like that. So one night, Rod, myself, and let's add Bob for the sake of argument; we started a "little" fire in our chicken coup.  Burned that thing to the ground.  Dad was not happy about that.  Then Dad got a job offer at Bloomington in 1953 so that is when our family moved back to Bloomington.
 When I married in 1965 to Richard Ogg, Bob and Pam were some of our best friends.  I remember in 1967 Dick and I bought a "house" in Lexington which had to be totally gutted and redone.  Bob would come up after working many long hours and going to school to help Dick remodel this house.  Endlessly, every night, until it was finally done.  I also have a fun memory of the four of us going to the American Legion, possibly for New Years Eve.  We danced and had a great time.  I had on a new rust colored suede coat.  Well the streets had been plowed when we came out.  There were mounds of snow in front of the American Legion on Grove Street, I believe.  We all decided we should lay down in the mounds of snow and make "snow angels".  Hence, destroyed rust suede coat.  Would do it all over again.  Bob and Pam also watched Tami, our daughter, for a week while Dick and I flew out to California and picked up a car of someone that Dick was working for.  We drove it back and stopped in Las Vegas at the Air Force Base to visit my other brother, Rod.  I was four months pregnant with Tim, middle son, at that time.  We also had many fun parties at Bob and Pam's mobile home on Pine Street.  Those times were such fun.  Little did we know they were going to be short years.  So take advantage of EVERY day with your siblings.  There is nothing like family.  I love and will miss you, Bob.  Your "younger" sister, Susie.

OBITUARY

Robert W. Nottingham

July 21, 1939 – February 5, 2016

East Lawn Funeral Home & Memorial Gardens

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