Robert A. “Bob” Northcutt was born on May 22, 1928 to Clarence and Marie Northcutt of Ponca City. He attended New Mexico Military Institute graduating Junior College in 1950. He attended the University of Oklahoma and graduated with a Petroleum Geology degree in 1956. He married Annette Marie Taft in 1951. He served With Distinction in the Korean War. He began his career as a geologist with Pan American in Mississippi. He was co-founder of Davis, Northcutt & Cochrane in Oklahoma City. He joined Mich-Wis Pipeline in Houston in 1977, Bass Enterprises in 1981 and finally went back to his love of being an independent geologist and remained a mentor even after he semi-retired. He worked with the Oklahoma City Geological Society and was the editor of the Shale Shaker for many years. He received the Martin C. Van Couvering Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions and was presented with the Oklahoma City Geological Foundation “Legends” Award in 2008. He was an honorary member of both AIPG and AAPG.
His wife Annie, both parents and his brother Jim Northcutt, predeceases him. He is survived by Nancy and Jim Seely, David and Denise Northcutt, grandkids Daniel, McKenzie, Megan and Maddy and by his "common-law brother" C.D. Northcutt. He loved his single malt, his Oklahoma Sooner's football, trips to the cabin in New Mexico and being called Papa or G-Pa. Services will be in the Chapel Hill Funeral Home Chapel , 8701 N. W. Expressway, Oklahoma City at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 with interment at Resurrection Memorial Cemetery.
Arrangements under the direction of Bill Eisenhour Funeral Home, Del City, Oklahoma.
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