Pamela A Dobbs' Obituary
Pam Dobbs was born December 1, 1942 and went to join her Lord and Savior on April 20, 2019 at age 76, after a lengthy battle against COPD, which she fought with the strength of a warrior and patience of a saint.Pam was born in California and was raised by her beloved Aunt Charlotte in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She attended T.C.U. where she met her husband Bob Dobbs. Together, they forged a rich marriage of 54 years until Bob passed away this year, on February 24.Pam and Bob settled in Lake Highlands and joined Highlands Christian Church, where they were members for over fifty years. In Lake Highlands, they raised their children Leslie, Jeff, and Scott in a house full of love and laughter. Bob and Pam worked together at his dental practice, where Pam took full advantage of a captive audience to regale them with tales of travels across the United States and Canada.Pam guaranteed that her spirit of adventure lived on in her children, by planning expeditions across our country in station wagons and vans in search of redwood forests, rugged canyons, and pure mountain views. But always, they ended up in Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Park, Pam’s magic place, which they scoured north and south and east and west searching for geysers, coyotes, swans, bears, and Pam’s favorite, wolves.As they waited for grandchildren, Pam and Bob filled their days with German Shepherds, including Bob’s buddy Max and Pam’s dear Bonnie, who was trained in Germany and enjoyed success as a Sieger show dog. The dogs also took the grown kids’ place on their yearly travels, where they also got to see every corner of Yellowstone National Park. Eventually, Bob and Pam bought a home within sight of the Grand Tetons, where the entire family would gather and celebrate with feasts, epic bonfires, and fireworks.Pam loved reading to her grandbabies, planning scavenger hunts with puzzles for them to solve, and always loved going to their school and sporting events. Oh, and the grandkids also got to enjoy all day Yellowstone treks as well.Some of Pam’s favorite things included cheeseburgers, genealogy and ancestry.com, Waylon Jennings Outlaw Songs and classic Hymns, the Dollar store, begging Bobby to please turn around to check if that rock was really a rock or a mountain lion, park exhibits, praying for her children every night, ice cream by Yellowstone Lake with her seven grandkids, Christmas, having meals with Bob’s brother Jerry and his wife Diane, Teton Valley’s Fourth of July Parade, karaoke (not really), her welded metal frog with its infectious laugh, Pepsi, Idaho flowers, reading newspaper articles to whoever she could corral, gardening, and fighting thistles taller than her.Pam is survived by her brothers Loring, Bob, and George Conway, her sister-in-law Azie Moore, who we want to thank for unselfishly taking care of Pam over the last few months, her daughter Leslie Tremble (Jeremy), son Jeff (Claire), and son Scott (Kristin), and her grandchildren Madison, Peyton, Audrey, Jackson, Sydney, Jack, and Autumn.Pam is preceded in death by her husband Bob, her Aunt Charlotte, her Gramma Titus, her dad Robert Conway, and brother Chris Moore. While we grieve, we cherish the image of Pam meeting Bobby, pausing just long enough to take a deep, full, and free breath of the pine scented air of heaven, and walking hand in hand into eternity.A service for Pam will take place Saturday, April 27, at 10:00 a.m. at the Wildwood Chapel (separate from the main building) at Restland Funeral Home.In lieu of flowers, please feel free to donate to the National Park Foundation.www.nationalparks.org
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