Mrs. Bobbie Lois Caskey

September 26, 1934 - February 7, 2021

Funeral services for Mrs. Bobbie Caskey, 86, of Old Center Community will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 10, 2021 at the Old Center Baptist Church with Rev. Jared Brown officiating. Burial will follow in the Old Center Cemetery under the direction of Hawthorn Funeral Home. Visitation will be 6-8:00 p.m. Tuesday February 9, 2021 at Hawthorn Funeral Home. Mrs. Caskey died February 7, 2021 in Carthage, Texas. Mrs. Bobbie Lois Kyle Caskey was born September 26, 1934 in Shelby County, Texas to Velvin D. and Ethel Lily Kyle. Bobbie graduated from Neilson and Henri Beauty School and with a license in Cosmetology. Bobbie worked as a beautician and later as a carhop where she met Boyd A. Caskey from Sioux Rapids, Iowa who was stationed at the U.S. Air Force Base Duncan Field. After a two year assignment to Anchorage, Alaska Boyd and Bobbie married July 5, 1957. Boyd’s next assignment in the Air Force would lead the newly married couple to live in Yuma, Arizona. From Arizona they travelled to Tampa, Florida where their son Shane Boyd was born. Over the next 3 years the family would continue to travel where the Air Force led. Their next residence would be in Reno, Nevada where their daughter Kathy Lois was born. After Boyd’s retirement from the Air Force in 1972 the family settled in the Old Center Community to continue raising their children. Bobbie was a member of Old Center Baptist Church. She enjoyed the time spent traveling with Boyd and the kids during his time in the Air Force. She also enjoyed listening to Gospel music, going on bus tours with RSVP (Retired Seniors volunteer Program), bowling, planting and observing her flowers, and watching the wildlife around the house (birds and deer especially). Mrs. Caskey is preceded in death by her parents, two sisters Kitty Kyle and Dorothy Wimberly, son Shane B. Caskey, and daughter Kathy Caskey Rowe. She is survived by two grandchildren April Parker of Austin, Texas, and Shayne Rowe Thames and husband Blake of Old Center, Texas, and one great granddaughter Bella Grace and her father Yogesh Khatri of Austin, Texas; numerous nieces, nephews and a host of friends. Serving as pallbearers will be David Wimberly, Charles Foster, Mike Whiddon, Jeffery Kyle, C.L. Ballard, and Mark Essery. Honorary pallbearers will be Jimmy Sheffield, Wayne Wimberly, Randy Rowe, Jerry Meaux and Dewayne Foster.