Robert Bittinger

Funeral Services were held 10:00 A.M., Thursday, April 10, 1997 at the Aurora United Methodist Church. Interment was held in the Greenwood Cemetery in York, Nebraska.

OBITUARY: Robert Bittinger

Robert Lee Bittinger, the son of Wendell and Cora Mae (Misner) Bittinger, was born at Grand Island, Nebraska, on May 24, 1927, and died at Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 6, 1997, at the age of 69 years, 10 months, and 12 days.

He grew up at Hampton, where he attended school. He did yard work and delivered home mad pies for his mother, and as a young boy he traveled with Mr. Wall on a combine crew to Kansas. Later he began trucking with his father.

At age 16, he traveled to New Hampshire with a friend and got a job in Massachusetts at a plush factory. He traveled to Portland, Oregon with his uncle Cliff, and worked as a house painter. Upon returning to Nebraska he began driving a gasoline truck for Bartell in Aurora. He was a heavy equipment operator for Lager Construction in Aurora, and later drove for a gasoline company out of Exeter.

On December 6, 1953, he was united in marriage to Sylvia Pennance at Aurora. They moved to Fremont where Bob worked for Hormel Meat Packing. In September of 1955, they moved to Denver, Colorado, where he began working for P.I.E. Trucking as a holster and piggy back driver. He transferred to over the road trucking, and continued to drive until his retirement on August 30, 1988, when he moved back to Hampton. He had received several awards for safe driving and service.

Bob was affiliated with the Aurora United Methodist Church, belonged to the Northglenn, Colorado Elks Lodge #2438, and the Teamsters Union #17 and #961. He enjoyed outdoor sports, fishing, camping, hunting, water skiing and boating.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother Franklin, and an infant brother.

Those who remain to cherish his memory are his wife Sylvia of Hampton; a sister Doris Dallegge, of Hampton, and nieces and nephews.