Wednesday, October 14, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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By Jacqueline E. Mathews, Tribune News Service
Col. Bob Woollard (Ret.)
February 5, 1945 –October 4, 2015
Robert Freeman Woollard
passed away peacefully at
home on Sunday, October 4.
He was 70 years old.
A Celebration of Bob’s
life with military honors,
will take place at Sisters
Community Church on
Friday, October 16, at 11
a.m., with viewing at 10:30
a.m., and lunch immediately
following the service.
Burial will be at
Wi l l a m e t t e N a t i o n a l
Cemetery in Portland on
Monday, October 19, at 2
p.m.
“Colonel Bob,” as he was
known in the Sisters com-
munity, was born in San
Diego, California, to Henry
and Lucille (Schreiber)
Woollard. He grew up in
Grants Pass, Oregon, and
graduated from Bend High
School in 1963.
Bob began his military
career with the Oregon Army
National Guard (ANG) in
1966. While in Corvallis,
Bob worked for the U.S.
Forest Service on the OSU
campus, enrolled in classes
there and graduated in 1971
with a bachelor’s degree
in botany. That same year,
Bob completed the rigorous
Officer Candidate School
program and was awarded a
reserve commission as a 2nd
Lieutenant.
Bob steadily moved up
the ranks, then in 1974, he
was transferred to Alaska
ANG and assigned as a
company commander, and a
year later, promoted to cap-
tain. It was at this point in
his career that Bob devoted
himself entirely to an active-
duty career in the ANG.
Captain Woollard would go
on to serve in many different
capacities, in many different
locations.
In 1980, Captain
Woollard resigned from
Alaska ANG to be a full-time
graduate student at Northern
Arizona University, and to
be a “traditional” officer
with the Arizona ANG. He
graduated from NAU with
an MBA in 1982.
Colonel Woollard’s last
assignment before retire-
ment from Army active duty
was Chief of the Army’s
Logistics Operations center
in the Pentagon. In the same
year he retired from the
Army, Bob also completed
his master’s in education.
After retiring in 2001, he
taught sixth-grade math for
four years. Due to increas-
ing Parkinson’s symptoms,
he received a medical retire-
ment in 2004.
Bob married Patricia
in 1998, and they moved
to Sisters in 2009. He was
active in Kiwanis, Habitat
for Humanity, Sisters Band
of Brothers, American
Legion, Disabled American
Ve t e r a n s , a n d C a m p
Sherman Chapel in the
Pines.
He is survived by his
wife, Patricia; mother
L u c i l l e Wo o l l a r d o f
Redmond; sisters Marilyn
(Jerry) Gerdes of Redmond
and Bettie (Paul) of Eugene;
brother Dan (Monetta) of
LaGrande; step-daughter
Heather (Lt. Col. John)
Hawbaker of Fayetteville,
NC; and grandchildren
Holly, Jesse, and Hannah,
as well as many nieces and
nephews.
Memorials may be made
to Sisters Kiwanis, Partners
in Care, Visiting Angels or
the charity of your choice.
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