August 20, 2013
August 20, 2013
He was a loving father and a great role model. He had an unbridled love for his family, and his heart was filled with altruism and generosity.
Special thanks to Don Powell and the Powell Family for all their amazing help and support during this difficult time.
Photos, Stories & Tributes: Please feel free to contribute photos and stories of Bobby! He has touched so many people over the course of his life! You can upload photos in the "Photo Gallery" and add stories on the "Stories" page. You can also add a shorter tribute using the box below.
Flowers: In lieu of flowers, the family asks that friends make a donation in Bobby’s name to Make-A-Wish North Texas. Donations can be mailed to Make-A-Wish, 6655 Deseo, Irving, Texas 75039.
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August 20, 2013
August 20, 2013
Bobby gave me 25 years of friendship and love. He was the most giving, generous person I've ever known in every way. He was the best Daddy ever to Stuart and Peyton, each day rushing home, wanting so much to be with them. He worked so hard. He gave me the best years of his life and I gave him mine, but most of all gave me the precious gifts of our children. I will always love you, BB.
August 20, 2013
August 20, 2013
There are no human words of comfort that can overcome the intense grief that is being experienced by the sensitive friends and family members at this time. God Bless you
August 20, 2013
August 20, 2013
I am so sad about Bobby.He always introduced me as his 'first girlfriend'. Our families were friends in Longview and we grew up together. We were good friends throughout Jr. Hi & Hi School. When we didn't have a date for something, sometimes we just went as friends. He was always fun loving, kind and a good date! He generously shared tickets to Ranger games w/ our family. Good memories.
August 20, 2013
August 20, 2013
Bobby was someone that was always meaningful in his friends and loved ones lives. He showed his vulnerability and was always transparent, I think that is why we always loved him. He was a giver to a fault even down to the shirt off his back. We will all return to our lives next week, but it will be less fun, less candid and a lot less love without Bobby. I love you and miss you brother.
August 20, 2013
August 20, 2013
"Bobby Booth was one of my favorite people in the world. I will miss him very dearly. He had a vitality, a zest for life, an uncanny ability to make other people feel welcome...in addition to being an awesome architect and a very special friend. I will miss you friend and look forward to seeing you in Heaven." Enjoy the presence of our Savior!
August 20, 2013
August 20, 2013
I'm three years older than Bobby and grew up with him in Longview. He was a wonderful guy who brought great joy to all he touched. God Speed to Bobby and his family.
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Recent Tributes
August 19, 2022
August 19, 2022
Bobbie was actually the most generous soul I ever met. He was true to his roots- always missed
August 19, 2022
August 19, 2022
I got an email from this website - nine years today. I don’t know who is looking here to remember Bobby but you are still missed. Other than my parents, I can’t think of any other adult who had a greater impact on me as a child. Love is the greatest rule of life - thank you for that legacy!
April 16, 2022
April 16, 2022
Although Bobby’s role in shaping the built environment worldwide continues to manifest itself in powerful ways, his influence on people remains his greatest legacy. Indeed, he was an Architect of relationships.
In several meetings over the last few weeks, his wisdom has surfaced as though it were etched in granite — indelible and infallible.
“Make people love you,” a colleague said, recalling Bobby’s advice.
It was spoken both as a professional admonition for winning new work and building relationships among project teams, but also as a sort of charm to beguile the most obstinate of people, always wielded with an earnest desire to win people over.
Bobby did make people love him, and we are all better for it.
In several meetings over the last few weeks, his wisdom has surfaced as though it were etched in granite — indelible and infallible.
“Make people love you,” a colleague said, recalling Bobby’s advice.
It was spoken both as a professional admonition for winning new work and building relationships among project teams, but also as a sort of charm to beguile the most obstinate of people, always wielded with an earnest desire to win people over.
Bobby did make people love him, and we are all better for it.
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Happy Birthday Bobby. We miss you! We had a great time that weekend! Thank you for the memories! XO
Happy Birthday Bobby, you are missed dearly every day. Love you so much!
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Erik Nieder's 1st Birthday with Stuart, JT, Katie and Peyton
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Bobby and Mark Newman
Recent stories
Meeting Bobby
April 16, 2017
I was doing the Sun Circuit Show in Scottsdale, and it was on Sunday evening just as we were about to close for the day. So this guy walks up to the booth looking like he just stepped off of a sailboat (sorta out of uniform at an Arizona horse show if you get my drift) and starts talking to me like we had been friends since kindergarden. As we're talking about anything and everything, he asks about a bracelet we had in the showcase. I show him the bracelet, give him the details, he looks it over and hands it back. We go back to talking like we've been buds for years. "Hey, do you want a beer or something?" I think we must have BSed for at least 30 - 45 minutes, just bein Buds. I liked him form the get-go! Just be fore he left he said "I'll take that bracelet." He bought it for Terrie and she came by and showed it off later.
Bobby had the ability to meet someone and instantly put them at ease. Not many folks can do that, and I'm proud I knew him for the short time we were life-long Buds.
Ecuadorian Watermelon
August 26, 2013
by Gail Booth
In college Bobby was chosen to be part of a team thesis project that spent a semester in Ecuador our fourth year of school. Since we were newly married, I went with all of the guys for that semester, where we lived in Quito. Sometimes food was a bit hard to come by, or at least food that I would eat, not wanting to get sick as one of the team members did. We lived a couple of miles from the grocery/market and our typical mode of transportation was our own feet. One day Bobby came in to the apartment we shared with 5-6 of the guys, and he had a big watermelon in his arms. I love watermelon and he had seen this melon, bought it for me knowing that I had been pretty hungry and then carried it for MILES to bring it to me. It was a heavy watermelon, too! It was such an act of service and love. Bobby was a people-pleaser and many times I saw him carry heavy "weights" wanting so much to make someone else happy. Part of it was how desperately he himself wanted to be loved, but part was just a real servant heart that was willing to do and to give. Unfortunately, the watermelon in Ecuador tasted AWFUL and wasn't edible, but I never forgot his gesture or the love that propelled it. And, I was just one of so many who received "watermelons" from the heart of Bobby Booth.
HKS
August 25, 2013
Bobby Booth joined HKS 35 years ago. This was on the 29th floor of the Southland Life building. Most of us at HKS measure our tenure at HKS by what building we were in when hired. Bobby was a young draftsman. He always dressed sharp and he was assigned to a project that Noel Barrick and I were working. Bobby immediately fit into HKS. He and I became fast friends. We would race to be the ones to turn on the lights each morning and start the coffee. Harwood Smith took an immediate liking to Bobby. We would jokingly call him the "golden boy"! He excelled in everything he did. He eventually came into design and then was recruited into marketing by Paul Terrill. Paul took Bobby under his wing and mentored to him about building business relationships.
As our generation began to take over the firm, Bobby became a major contributor to HKS. I used to call him "Billion Dollar Bobby" after consistently bringing in multiple billion dollar projects into HKS. He also took that skill into China and the Middle East.
Bobby took the 2008 downturn hard, his markets vaporized. As part of the management council, bobby was listening to our discussion about improving our interview process to raise our hit rate. Bobby interjected simply and boldly to the group, " you don't understand, there is no work". We all stopped and looked at him and I started to laugh and said, that's true!
One of my favorite quotes of Bobby was, " I have an insatiable desire to serve our clients". I quoted him many times because it is the pure essence of how Bobby brought so much work into HKS. We thank The Lord for letting Bobby be a part of our HKS family for 35 years. He will missed but forever remembered.