Bobby J. “Shake” Dudding, 78

Bobby J. “Shake” Dudding, 78, Racine , passed away at 1:30 a.m. on Friday, March 21, 2014, at Holzer Hospital Hospice Suite in Gallipolis, Ohio in the company of his loving wife Hazel as he was called home to be with his Heavenly Father.

He was born in Raymond City, W.Va., on January 29, 1936, to the late John Campbell and Ida Marie Pringle Dudding. His family relocated and settled in Middleport, Ohio when he was two years old. Here he excelled in multiple sports and earned the nickname he was affectionately known by as “Shake”. He enlisted in the US Air Force and following a 27-year career culminating in his retirement from active duty in 1980, he settled in Racine, Ohio. He was a Korea and Vietnam Veteran and also helped recover the nose cone of the Gemni Space Capsule, which is on display at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base Museum, Dayton, Ohio. After retirement from the Air Force Bobby was an oil distributor driver for Swisher’s Ashland Oil and also a school bus driver for Southern Local Schools. He also was a former assistant football coach, and golf coach at Southern High School.

While stationed at Lockbourne AFB, in Columbus, Ohio, he met the love of his life, Hazel Yvonne Stobart. On November 22, 1958 the two of them were married at the Antiquity Baptist Church in Antiquity, Ohio and began their 55-year journey together. He was a member of the Tupper’s Pains Hickory Hills Church of Christ where he taught Sunday school and was a preacher of the Gospel.

He is survived by his wife, and they were blessed with three children, Brian, Troy, and Leslee, eight grandchildren, five great-grandchildren. Brothers, Gene, John, and Roger, and sisters Doris and Cheetah, and numerous nieces and nephews also survive.

In addition to his parents he is preceded in death by his sisters, Ruby and Nan and a granddaughter Linzi.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 pm on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at the Cremeens Funeral Home in Racine, Ohio, with Minister Mike Moore officiating. Interment will follow at the Letart Falls Cemetery with full military honors conducted by the Middleport American Legion Fenney-Bennet Post# 128. Friends may call on Monday from 2-4 pm and 6-8 pm at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Holzer Hospice, 100 Jackson Pike, Gallipolis Ohio 45631. Expressions of sympathy may sent to the family by visiting www.cremeensfuneralhomes.com