Bobby O'dell Faulkinberry was born May 17,1935 in Binger, Oklahoma to Freeman Arthur Faulkinberry and Viola Faulkinberry. As a young boy, he worked hard in the fields pulling cotton and cutting wood. As a young man, he worked in the oil field driving trucks. In 1953 he came to Pruitt City, Oklahoma to visit the pastor and his family that he knew from Minco, Oklahoma. While attending the church there, he met Patsy Ruth Downey. After 3 months of dating, his friend, the minister of the church, Clyde Ventris, married them. Bobby worked very hard in the oil field industry for many years in Oklahoma.

After many years of driving a transport truck in Oklahoma, he moved his family to Ruidoso, New Mexico, where he drove a truck and worked with heavy equipment. After a few years in New Mexico, he moved back to Oklahoma where he got a job as oil field pumper and worked for 18 years with Young's Oil Service pumping wells. Bobby then retired after having quadruple bypass surgery. He then moved with his wife Patsy to Hollister, Missouri where he was called to be with the Lord.

Bobby was blessed with four children born to him and his wife Patsy. They celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary this year. He is survived by his wife and his children, Alletha Fry of Hollister, Missouri; Katrinka and her husband Weldon Scrivner of Abilene, Texas; LaTonya Moore of Hollister, Missouri; Marty and his wife Joanna Faulkinberry of Pineville, Missouri.
He was blessed with 9 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren that he loved with all his heart.