Rev. Robert "Bob" William Hoobyar

Rev. Robert “Bob” William Hoobyar, 91, of Canyon Lake, Texas, passed away peacefully at home on July 30, 2023.

Bob was born on February 19, 1932 to Robert Sargis Hoobyar and Evelyn Bennett Palmer Hoobyar in Los Angeles, California. Bob graduated from Redondo Union High School in 1949, attended El Camino Junior College, and married Jan in 1953. After Bob served for two years in the U.S. Army, he and Jan both studied at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, where Bob completed the Missionary Aviation course and the Pastoral Studies course.

After graduating in 1960, he worked in a pastoral internship in Illinois and then served four years as a pastor in Minnesota and 10 years as a missionary church-planting pastor in Alaska. Moving back to California in 1976, he worked as a schoolteacher and auto mechanic and then retired in Mississippi in 1996.

Bob was predeceased by his parents, Bob and Evelyn Hoobyar, and his sister Evelyn “Faith” Bennett Palmer Callas. He is survived by his wife, Jan, his sisters, Mary Elizabeth Smith and Esther Ann Paoletti, his son, Daniel (Lillian) Hoobyar, his daughter, Lori (Terry) Hyde, six grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, and one great-grandchild on the way.

A burial ceremony with military honors will be held at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas on Friday, August 4, at 9:45 a.m. A memorial service is planned at First Baptist Church of Moss Point, SBC, 4807 Moss Point, Mississippi 39563 on Friday, August 11, at 11 a.m.

Memorial gifts can be made to Home of Grace for Women, 7112 Home of Grace Dr, Gautier, Mississippi 39553.