Bob W. Hoke

Bob Hoke was born July 11, 1933 the fifth child born to John and Marie Hoke in Keenesburg, CO. He was born on the family farm. He grew up living in the towns surrounding Greeley, the majority in the small town of LaSalle. As a child he used to sell papers on the trains as they stopped in the town.

He attended Meeker Jr. High, where he played basketball. He left school to help his Mother raise his younger sisters. In 1951 Bob joined the United States Army. He was stationed at Ft. Reilly Kansas, before being stationed in Alaska.

Throughout his life he worked in farming, at a local bakery, for the county doing surveying, and assisted his brother Everett with milk delivery before settling into drywall for homebuilders in the greater Denver area. He married Pat Carlon in 1958; they had three children Teresa, Tammy, and Monty. They were divorced in 1965.

In 1968 Bob was married to his second wife Helen. Helen he had known as a child and with whom he was married to for 41 years before her death. He had a love for homemade ice cream at family picnics, trains, trucks, family vacations, and loved to drive his black ford pickups.

Bob is survived by one brother, three sisters and one half-sister, his Children Teresa, Tammy and Monty, Granddaughters, Candice (Dan), Tanya, and Sara, and Great Grandson Grayson.