SHOSHONI -- Memorial services for longtime Shoshoni vocational agriculture teacher Robert B. "Bob" Meredith Sr., 83, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007, in the Shoshoni High School gym.

He died at his home in Green Valley, Ariz., where he had lived for six months, on July 13, 2007.

He was born in Sheridan County on April 8, 1924, the youngest of four siblings born to George and Pauline Meredith.

He lived in Sheridan until he joined the U.S. Army in 1944 and had worked on the ranch with his family for most of his early life.

He served with an Army infantry unit in Germany until the end of World War II.

After returning from the war, he married Helen Marie Silla in October 1945.

He entered the University of Wyoming in the fall of 1948 where he began studying and working to become a teacher of vocational agriculture. He graduated in 1951 with a bachelor of arts degree in vocational agriculture and immediately began his teaching career at Shoshoni High, where he stayed until retiring in 1987.

As an ag teacher, he also served as sponsor of the award-winning Shoshoni Chapter of the Future Farmers of America.

Among his greatest honors was being selected as teacher of the year for the state of Wyoming in 1985.

He dedicated his life to his students and the community of Shoshoni. He saw several generations of families in his 37 years at the school.

He believed the greatest asset on earth was his students.

After the death of his wife in 1993, he married his longtime friend, Beulah Harris, in September 1994.

They moved from Shoshoni to Riverton in 1994 and to Green Valley in the spring of 2007.

Survivors include his wife of 13 years of Green Valley, son, Bob Meredith Jr., and his wife of Sahuarita, Ariz.; two daughters, Linda Meredith of Casper and Judy Duhring and her husband of Saratoga; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, three stepchildren, Lydia Bird, Sue Tibesar and Donnie Harris and additional grandchildren from the Harris family.

He was preceded in death by his wife of 47 years, his father and mother, two brothers, Jim and George and one sister, Halene.

Memorials may be made to the Shoshoni Senior Center.

Local arrangements are under the direction of Davis Funeral Home of Riverton.

Casper Star-Tribune - July 20, 2007