Robert J. Hubbard “Bob” passed away Feb. 20, 2019, just short of his 89th birthday. He was born March 2, 1930, in McRoberts, Ky., to Charles and Hazel Hubbard.
Bob moved to Menlo Valley, Wash., with his parents at the age of five. He graduated high school there and played football and basketball, two sports he loved to play. He was a three year varsity letterman.
Bob served in the United States Marines and later, served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. He returned and began his college education in Pullman, where he met and later married Martha Grace Orban. After moving to Eureka, Calif., Bob attended and graduated from Humboldt State University with a degree in forestry. In 1960, with two of three boys in tow, they moved to Castle Rock and worked for Weyerhaeuser Company for 15 years. Bob continued to work in the timber industry for many years and later, was a guard for Green Hill School in Chehalis, Wash.
He was an avid hunter and fisherman, especially in his younger years when Bob taught all his sons how to shoot, fish and hunt. Around 1980, he began to do bench press and other powerlifting and went on to hold the world record in his age and weight class. Bob traveled back East and to the Midwest to compete and has numerous trophies, titles and awards while he competed.
Bob was preceded in death by his wife, Martha “De De”; and two brothers, Jack and Charlie.
A memorial will be held in his honor Saturday, March 30, 2019, at 1 p.m., at Grace Church (Chehalis Baptist Church), 1866 S. Market Blvd., Chehalis.
