Celebration of life service for Robert Hamby was held Feb. 22 at the Maysville United Methodist Church. Cremation was under the direction of Bram-Turner Funeral Home, Maysville. Memorials are suggested to Heifer Project International, Sid Ensign Scholarship Fund, or Maysville United Methodist Church.
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Robert "Bob" Hardin Hamby, 77, died Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009, at home in Maysville.
Mr. Hamby graduated from North Kansas City High School and was a certified diesel mechanic.
He served in the Marine Corp in 1952 and 1953.
He married Geri Warn of Nashua on April 30, 1954. They operated Tri Honor Farm, a family run dairy farm at Plattsburg, for 35 years where they raised registered Holstein cows. He started Hamby Dairy Supply in 1991 and retired in 2001.
Mr. Hamby was a 4-H leader, a member of the Clinton and Daviess County Republican Central Committee and was a deacon of the First Presbyterian Church of Plattsburg. He served in leadership roles for Mid-America Dairymen and the Four-County Dairy Herd Improvement Association. He was a member of Maysville United Methodist Church at the time of his passing.
Survivors include three daughters, Kathy Walther, Columbia, Christine Hamby, Cameron, and Suzie Jones, Stewartsville; two sons, Dwight Hamby, Kansas City, and Paul Hamby, Maysville; one brother, Peewee Hamby; 11 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.