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Born into the Ozark hamlet of Pickles Gap on Dec. 21, 1934, Bobbie Sue Fugatt was the sixth of seven children. The Fugatt farm was a family operation, and growing up her chores included helping tend an expansive garden, hoeing fields, picking cotton and milking the cows.
She also worked at the local five-and-dime, Sterling Store, part-time from the ages of 16 to 20, graduating from Conway High School and going on to attend Central Arkansas State University in Conway and Ouachita Baptist College in Arkadelphia. But on a double date at a carnival, she met the man who would become the great love of her life, Glen Haddock. She told him she would only marry a man who shared her faith, and he became a Christian at Pickles Gap Baptist Church, where she often played piano. The two were married within three months of their first date (he had proposed after two weeks).
Their love was forged in a crucible of challenges during those early years. Within six years, they had four children, Debbie, David, Denise and Dee Ann. Glen was an aspiring mathematician and teacher, and the couple moved frequently between college towns in Arkansas, Oklahoma and eventually Missouri as he completed his master's, then his doctorate. For him, that meant working while studying; for her, that meant raising a house full of babies and toddlers in cramped student housing on her own.
As Glen became chairman of the math department at UMR, she hosted countless visitors - for one event she baked dozens of pies. She taught Sunday School and other children's classes at First Baptist Church in Rolla for half a century, kept books for Missouri Ozark Upholstery and volunteered doing taxes for the elderly.
Patience was one of her greatest virtues - her children recall hearing her raise her voice only once. She was the mom everyone wanted: kind, cheerful, and always welcoming. Her family knew that her love of Jesus was reflected in her love for them, and she wrapped four generations - four children, 12 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren - securely in it. A gifted baker, she also kept everyone well fed, with a Christmas array of candy cane cookies, penuche, stollen, fudge and more that stretched as far as the eye could see.
Bobbie devotedly cared for Glen in his final years, and passed from this life 364 days after him.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was also preceded in death by one brother and four sisters.
Bobbie will be greatly missed by her surviving family which includes four children, Debbie Sue Brown and husband, Michael of Rolla, Missouri, Glen David Haddock and wife, Vicki of Petaluma, California, Vicki Denise McClanahan and husband, Ron of Rolla, Missouri, and Dee Ann Davis and husband, Danny of Rolla, Missouri; 12 grandchildren; 10 great grandchildren; and one sister, Betty Thomas and husband, Jimmy of Conway, Arkansas.
A funeral service for Bobbie S. Haddock will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Friday, July 8, 2022, at the First Baptist Church in Rolla. Interment will follow in the Ozark Hills Memorial Gardens Cemetery. A visitation for family and friends will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, July 7 at the Null and Son Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the First Baptist Church of Rolla.
Online condolences may be offered at www.nullandsonfuneralhome.com (http://www.nullandsonfuneralhome.com).
All arrangements are under the direction of the Null and Son Funeral Home of Rolla.
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