Posted on 10/15/2024 12:32:01 PM PDT by dynachrome
Robert Adolph Boehm, in accordance with his lifelong dedication to his own personal brand of decorum, muttered his last unintelligible and likely unnecessary curse on October 6, 2024, shortly before tripping backward over "some stupid mother****ing thing" and hitting his head on the floor.
Robert was born in Winters, TX, to the late Walter Boehm and Betty Smith on May 6, 1950, after which God immediately and thankfully broke the mold and attempted to cover up the evidence. Raised Catholic, Robert managed to get his wife Dianne pregnant (three times) fast enough to just barely miss getting drafted into the Vietnam War by fathering Michelle, John, and Charlotte between 1967 and 1972. Much later, with Robert possibly concerned about the brewing conflict in Grenada, Charles was born in 1983.
This lack of military service was probably for the best, as when taking up shooting as a hobby in his later years, he managed to blow not one, but two holes in the dash of his own car on two separate occasions, which unfortunately did not even startle, let alone surprise, his dear wife Dianne, who was much accustomed to such happenings in his presence and may have actually been safer in the jungles of Vietnam the entire time. While the world was in conflict elsewhere, Robert made due by learning to roof, maintain traffic signs with the City of Amarillo, and eventually becoming a semi-professional truck driver—not to be confused with a professional semi-truck driver.
With peace on the horizon, Robert's attention somewhat counterintuitively drifted to weapons of war, spanning the historical and geographical spectrum from the atlatl of 19,000 BC France, to the sjambok of 1830s Africa, to the Mosin-Nagant M1891 of WWII-era Soviet Union.
(Excerpt) Read more at robertsonfuneral.com ...
LOL! There are tributes from all over the US on his tribute wall.
Sounds like half of my family.
Not sure which half.
He seems eccentric and that his children weren’t fond of his eccentricities.
I wonder what his Freerepublic username was.
If they wrote this, I think they remember him VERY fondly - and he probably had some input.
That really made me chuckle.
Thank you
I’m thinking they loved him very much.
>>>eventually becoming a semi-professional truck driver—not to be confused with a professional semi-truck driver.<<<
What a great obit!
Wish I was as colorful...except for shooting my dash...
Sounds like Humblegunner..................
La Boehm?
I thought of that too. Gunner would want to know why they excerpted the obit.
I can only hope for a memorial as good as this man got.
Heard this being read on the radio this morning (country music station).
a rare (but certainly not unique) find in west Texas
Here’s a really good one, from my neck of the woods...
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/hartfordcourant/name/joe-heller-obituary?id=2225301
That was another good one.
Thank you! I have tears from laughing at both of these.
Love it!
[When the doctors confronted his daughters with the news last week that “your father is a very sick man,” in unison they replied, “you have no idea.”]
Here is a page of funny obits.
https://www.loveliveson.com/funny-obituaries/
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