Bobbie Jo Wylie

Bobbie Jo Wylie was born on February 1, 1933 to Ollie Lloyd Tipton and Izora (McCool) Tipton in Forestburg, Texas on the site where Decie Ellzey's home stood. She transitioned to her heavenly home in Nocona, Texas on February 4, 2023. She spent most of her early years living in Nocona, Benjamin, and Sanger, Texas. Receiving a strong dose of the McCool/Mitchell genes, she was a very strong-willed person. In school she excelled in basketball, winning all district honors while playing for Sanger High School. While living in Benjamin, she started working for the local telephone company and transferred from Benjamin to Saint Jo as a telephone operator. There through lifelong friends Clifford and Dorothy Richardson, she met George Ditzler (Red) Wylie Jr. They were married in February,1954. These friendships lasted a lifetime and on more Sunday afternoons than not, you could find them with these friends and sometimes more at Clifford and Dorothy's home where the game was 42. She traveled all over Texas with 4-H kids and also traveled the state going to Longhorn cattle shows.
Until Red's death the two owned and operated the local Grocery, Market, Gas and Feed store called Wylie's Grocery. Her long-time treasured friend Catherine Willis would say, "You can get everything from barbed wire to cucumbers there." They also raised cattle.
Bobbie is preceded in death by her husband, her parents, her sister and brother- in-law Louise and Junior Wade, two brothers Thomas Eugene Tipton and Samuel Lloyd Tipton, brother-in-law Merwyn Tucker, and sister-in-law Thelma Josephine Wylie.
She is survived by one daughter Sheree Roberts and husband Jim Bob (Forestburg), two grandchildren Kimberly Collins and husband Jim (Sadler), and Jy Roberts (Denton), one great-grandchild Wylie Collin (Sadler), a sister Polly Ann Tucker (Sanger), sisters -in- law Miyoko (Jeanie) Tipton of (Pilot Point), Clara Tipton of (Sanger), many nieces, nephews and a host of love and cherished friends.

Bobbie's family will receive friends and family on Wednesday February 8 from 6-8PM at Scott-Morris Funeral Home Chapel in Nocona. Her service will be on Thursday at 2PM at First United Methodist Church in Forestburg with interment following at Perryman Cemetery.