Marilyn Wood Hobart

b. 12 August 1927, d. 27 March 2010
  • Marilyn Wood Hobart was born on 12 August 1927 in Pampa, Gray County, Texas.
  • Marilyn Wood Hobart died on 27 March 2010 at age 82 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas.
  • The following appeared on 28 March 2010 in the Austin American-Statesman: Marilyn Hobart Campbell, a long-time resident of Wichita Falls, passed away on March 27, 2010, following a tribulation from cancer. A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, March 31, at 3:00 p.m. at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Wichita Falls under the direction of Lunn's Colonial Funeral Home in Wichita Falls.
         Marilyn Wood Hobart was born in Pampa, Texas, on August 12, 1927. She was the eldest of three children born to Fred and Minerva Hobart of Canadian, Texas, and a granddaughter of T.D. Hobart, a pioneer of the Texas Panhandle.
         She grew up on the Hobart Ranch in Hemphill County. In her adolescence Marilyn was an avid horsewoman, who won the Ideal Girl Cup at Camp Waldemar in 1944. After graduating from St. Mary's Hall in San Antonio and Hockaday Junior College in Dallas, she attended the University of Texas at Austin where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. There she met Robert F. Campbell Jr. of Houston. They married in 1948 and moved to Wichita Falls in 1950, where the couple raised three children during their twenty five year marriage.
         Marilyn worked twenty eight years for two ophthalmologists in succession in Wichita Falls, Dr. Alton Munro and Dr. Jeffrey Harrington. She was an active member of the Altar Guild at Good Shepherd, Wichita Falls and the Unity Study Club for over four decades. Although she enjoyed other interests, the primary focus of her adult life was care and concern for her children.
         Survivors include her three children Robert F. Campbell III of Midland, Texas, Sue Ann Temple and husband Cliff residing in Trinidad, West Indies, and Dwight Hobart Campbell and wife Carol of Manvel, Texas. She is also survived by her brother, Timothy Dwight Hobart II, of Pampa, Texas; her five grandchildren: Daniel, Bea, Casey, and Matthew Temple of Trinidad, West Indies; and Margaret Campbell of Manvel. Marilyn was preceded in death by her sister Minerva "Tiny" Batts of Fort Worth.
         The family would like to express their sincere gratitude for the care provided by Hospice of Wichita Falls and Senior Care Health and Rehabilitation. In lieu of flowers the family suggests a memorial to Hospice of Wichita Falls or the charity of one's choice.
  • Last Edited: 12 Feb 2013