Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, March 9, 1990                   TAG: 9003082199
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: EVENING 
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OBIT WELLS, R.

BEDFORD - Robert Lee (Bobby) Wells, age 59, of Route 3, died Thursday, March 8, 1990, in the VA Medical Center, Salem. He was born in Bedford County on October 18, 1930, son of Mary Luck Wells of Bedford and the late Robert Floyd Wells. He was a member of Main Street United Methodist Church, an employee of Rubatex and was a Marine veteran of the Korean War. In addition to his mother, he is survived by his wife, Polly Preston Wells; one daughter and son-in-law, Dee Wells and Troy R. Cheek; one son and daughter-in-law, Robert L. and Cindy S. Wells; a sister, Nancy Wells Kendrick; and a granddaughter, Sidney Wells Cheek all of Bedford. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 11:00 a.m. at the Carder-Tharp Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Reginald H. Potts, III and the Rev. Ralph E. Lawhorn officiating. Burial will be in Virginia Memorial Park. Memorials may be made to the Main Street United Methodist Church Building Fund. Friends may call at Carder-Tharp Funeral Home.