Bobby Earl Henson of Saginaw, TX, passed away on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, at the age of 84. After a brutal one-month fight against the complications from pancreatic cancer, he is now healed and at peace with his Heavenly Father.

Service: 11:00 a.m., Thursday, May 8, 2025 at Eagles View Church.

Interment: Saginaw Cemetery following the service.

Visitation: 10:00 a.m., prior to the service.

Memorials: In lieu of flowers, Bobby and Nancy desired for friends and family to contribute to EVC Go Fund at Eagles View Church to support missions that were dear to their hearts.

Bobby was born in a farmhouse in Buckholts, Texas, on April 19, 1941, and lived there until the age of five. He was the third child of struggling sharecroppers. His farmer parents eventually seized an opportunity for a better way of life by moving to the "big city" of Fort Worth before Bobby began school. That move began Bobby's journey, legacy, and imprint on thousands of people in the North Fort Worth area. Bobby and his high school sweetheart, Nancy, both graduated from Diamond Hill Jarvis High School and married the year after graduation.

Since his parents move would begin with financial struggles, Bobby began working for the Fort Worth Press and then the Fort Worth Star Telegram at just the young age of 13 years old as a paper boy for both newspapers. Because of his commitment to work hard for his family, and his desire to rise above some of the struggles he watched his dad go through, Bobby continued working his entire high school years, never stopping. Despite loving to play baseball for the church, he chose work over high school sports. The decision to financially contribute to his family and his future family, would always have Bobby daydreaming and wondering how he would have done as a high school athlete. He told his kids that he was big and fast, and coaches kept asking him to play, but he worked seven days a week to break the cycle of financial struggles. However, those "what if" daydreams would become the driving force for him to later, as an adult, volunteer to coach every sport he could in little league and church leagues. He coached other people's kids and shared the good news of Jesus with them before ever even coaching his own kids. He studied sports and could discuss strategies with any seasoned coach around. Those paths in his life, and the fact that his toddler children grew up in gyms and ball parks watching him coach, would be the foundation for why he was adamant that his three children would never work a single day while school was in session, and they would play all the high school sports that they wanted to play. His happy place was on football fields, baseball fields, gymnasiums, and tracks. Additionally, he would use the kids' sports as analogies for their Christian walks and their life decisions. He proudly told everyone at his printing shops and later his colleagues at Lockheed Martin, about every race run, ball thrown, tackle made, football caught, blocks done perfectly, base hits propelled, baskets shot, and volleyball sets and serves made by his kids and his six grandkids. Both his kids and his grandkids looked for Bobby and Nancy in the bleachers before their competitions. He was well-respected in the sports communities of Boswell (Eagle Mountain- Saginaw), Bridgeport, and Argyle, supporting his kids and grandkids in little league, select sports, middle school sports, high school sports, and college sports. Every player and runner on the six grandchildren's teams knew and loved Nana and Pawpaw. They became team grandparents.

In addition to being a hard-working employee for every company he ever worked for, he found time to volunteer. After moving to the Saginaw area, Bobby immediately became ingrained into First Baptist Saginaw, serving as a Deacon. He also quickly became an officer on the Boswell Athletic Booster Club for many years where all the sports families would come to know him well. In his senior citizen life, he still wanted to volunteer in his beloved area, and transitioned into the role of being the Vice-President of the Saginaw Cemetery Committee, and in full-out Bobby style, kept a keen eye on the yard work, activity, and overall respect of that place of rest in his area. He always said he will be proud to be buried there someday.

Bobby's faith journey began at Diamond Hill Baptist Church where he would eventually become the youngest deacon to be ordained at the time. Bobby and Nancy were active members of three churches during their long marriage of 64 years (65 years in May). They began their church life at Diamond Hill Baptist Church teaching Sunday School together and Bobby leading Royal Ambassadors, which blended his strong Christian values with his love of sports. He spent hundreds of hours coaching boys through RA's. When Bobby and Nancy moved to the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw area, they switched their membership to First Baptist Saginaw where he also spent many years as a Deacon. When the six grandchildren came along, some of Bobby's (Pawpaw's) most treasured memories would be witnessing the baptisms of all six of those children when they became old enough to understand about the sacrifice made at the Cross for their salvation. For the last decade, Bobby and Nancy switched their membership to Eagles View Church to fulfill the dream of once again attending church with tons of family members when two kids moved back into the area. He also proudly told everyone that one of his nephews was a pastor there. Along with his influence on his children and grandchildren, hundreds of people have reached out during Bobby's battle with his month-long illness and told us that he was the one who planted the seed of Christ in them, or he showed them what a good husband and father looked like, or he showed them attention and love at a time when they felt that no one loved them.

Back when Bobby was in high school, he fell in love with a pretty little cheerleader, Nancy May. She would be his only serious girlfriend he ever had. They married in a private ceremony in the church office. Even in their 80's, he thought Nancy was beautiful. Through hard work, together they bought their first house, and his overtime work allowed Nancy to stay at home when the three kids were babies. He would continue to work until he retired at 75 years old. He instilled a work ethic in his home that everyone works hard to be self-sufficient, stewards to the church, and not expect something for nothing. That was branded into the heads of his children, and he was very proud to watch them go out into the world and get degrees and jobs, and then start families.

In alignment with his Fort Worth life, there is absolutely no bigger TCU fan anywhere than Bobby Henson. Going forward, when you watch the Frogs compete, please always smile and think of our proud father, father-in-law, and grandfather of TCU graduates. Bobby, the son of poor sharecroppers who never even mentioned college to him, beamed with pride to see his children earn those TCU degrees and even go on to higher degrees and certifications. He loved to discuss all the TCU sports with us—and total strangers. In fact, his lawn service workers only called him Mr. TCU.

Bobby is survived by his wife of 64 years, Nancy May Henson, and by his children, Danny Henson (wife Leslie), Dayna Henson Gilbreath (husband Dale), and Duane Henson (wife Jana); his beloved grandchildren, Corey Henson, Cody Henson (wife Jessica), Jared Hudson, Jace Hudson (wife Angela), Taylor Weaver, and Kayla Henson. In addition, he leaves his three adorable great-grandchildren, and he entered heaven having the knowledge of a new baby great-granddaughter coming in August. He leaves numerous nieces and nephews whom he totally adored.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Dan and Laura Henson; his sister, Imogen Fritz; and his brother, Clifton Henson.