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Middlebrooks, Bobbie

Middlebrooks, Bobbie

Female 1916 - 2006  (90 years)

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  • Name Middlebrooks, Bobbie 
    Born 8 Jan 1916  Thomaston, Upson County, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 20 Jun 2006  Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 24 Jun 2006  Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park - Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Findagrave.com Memorial #106508615
    Person ID I9917  Coursey-Sansing Tree
    Last Modified 17 Nov 2020 

    Father Middlebrooks, Robert Roy,   b. 4 Dec 1880, Upson County, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Dec 1953, Leon County, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years) 
    Mother Colquitt, Eva May,   b. 13 Oct 1881, Red Bone, Upson County, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Mar 1972, Leon County, Florida, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years) 
    Married 14 Dec 1904  Upson County, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F4036  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Weatherly, James F (Jim),   b. 7 Apr 1914,   d. 13 May 1983  (Age 69 years) 
    Married 24 Apr 1937  Colleton, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 17 Nov 2020 
    Family ID F4037  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Obituary


       


      Bobbie Middlebrooks Weatherly, 90, died Tuesday, June 20, 2006.

      The service will be at 2 p.m. EDT Saturday at the Gallery at Westminster Oaks. Family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. EDT today at the Gallery at Westminster Oaks. Beggs Funeral Home Apalachee Chapel is handling arrangements.

      Memorial contributions may be made to Ministerial Scholarship Fund, Trinity United Methodist Church, PO Box 1086, Tallahassee, FL 32302.

      Bobbie, a longtime member of Trinity United Methodist Church, was born Jan. 8, 1916, in Thomaston, Ga., the second daughter of Rob Roy and Eva Mae Middlebrooks. In 1924, she moved to Miccosukee, where she attended grammar school.

      In 1928, she moved to Norman Park, Ga., where she met the love of her life, James Weatherly. She graduated from high school at Norman Junior College when she was 16.

      In 1932, she enrolled at the Florida State College for Women, where she pledged to the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, which had a great influence on her life.

      She transferred to the University of Georgia, where she graduated in 1936.

      In 1937, she married James Weatherly the week after he graduated from flight school at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola. They moved to San Diego on the way to Honolulu, where Bobbie, Jim and their daughter the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

      After 23 years as a Navy family, Bobbie, Jim and their two children retired to Tallahassee in 1955.

      Survivors include a daughter, a son, six grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and another great-grandchild expected in September.

      She was preceded in death by her husband, James F. Weatherly.

      Published in Tallahassee Democrat on June 23, 2006