Bobby Cook

Bobby Lynn Cook, 68, of Lubbock, was welcomed by God as an angel into his loving arms on Saturday, June 14, 2025, with loved ones by his bedside. Bobby braved a valiant battle with cancer of 11 years with three types of cancer. He is and will always be our hero.

Bobby was born on June 28, 1956, to the late Willard (Bill) and Laura Cook in Odessa, Ector County, Texas. He attended Odessa High School and graduated with the senior class of 1975. During his early adolescent years, Bobby found his passion for music and joined his high school's prestigious letter band playing the quad drums (tom tom's) at the very top tier and was involved in local and state competitions.

After high school, Bobby started a family, attended computer programming at Odessa College and landed a job with Amoco/Oxy Permian. For the next 36 years, Bobby worked his way up to a landman, and finally a workover and completion specialist, before retiring in 2014.

He met Pamela Payne, the love of his life, and they were united in marriage on April 6, 2012, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

No one who met Bobby could forget his infectious laughter and zest for life. He loved his family deeply and reveled in sharing his hobbies for fishing, golfing, horse races, and the mountains with anyone willing to join him on his great life adventures and vacations. He held a fond place in his heart for his fur baby, Lulu. There is no way to sum up Bobby in a few words...he loved his loved ones deeply whether you were his own or born to someone else, and he was the life of any celebration. Humble as the bible teaches us to be, a man of faith always lending a helping hand and listening to others intently with a word of comfort. To see him with his family was to see him at home, always offering advice when asked and making you feel like you've just talked to your father.

To live on in hearts we leave behind is never to truly die. We remember Bobby not as he was, but as an eternal flame that will never be extinguished.

Those left to honor and cherish his memory include his wife, Pamela; one daughter, Heather Burch of San Antonio; two grandchildren: Isabelle Cook and Skylar Burch; two great-grandchildren: Azarae Cook-Morgan and Analia Cook-Morgan; four stepchildren: Misti Tynes of Austin, Brandon Duncan of Austin, Justin Duncan of Waxahachie and Natasha Garrett of San Marcos; twelve step-grandchildren and three step great-grandchildren. Bobby was preceded in death by his parents and an uncle, James Douglas Cook.

Celebration of Life services will be held at 2 PM on Thursday, June 19, 2025, in the Combest Family Memorial Chapel in Lubbock, 2210 Broadway. Family members Gary Payne and Craig Burch will lead the family led service. Cremation will follow under the personal care and direction of Combest Family Funeral Home and Crematory.

In lieu of flowers, Bobby's family wholeheartedly requests that you donate to St. Jude's Children's Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105, in Bobby's memory.