Waterford, Michigan
Robert Douglas Hocking, 61, of Waterford, Michigan, formerly of Clarkston, Michigan, soulmate and husband of Judy for more than 36 years, died on Friday, February 21, 2003. Visitation is scheduled for Monday, February 24, 2003, 3-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m., at Lewis E. Wint and Son Funeral Home, 5929 South Main Street, Clarkston. Funeral services are scheduled for Tuesday, February 25, 10 a.m., at Lewis E. Wint and Son Funeral Home, 5929 South Main Street, Clarkston. Interment will be at Lakeview Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations are appreciated to St. Jude's Research Hospital, c/o Lewis E. Wint and Son Funeral Home, 5929 South Main Street, Clarkston, MI 48346. Arrangements entrusted to Lewis E. Wint and Son Funeral Home, Clarkston, Michigan.
Bob, its been so long since Ive heard your voice and saw your smile and told you how much you are loved. Now you have brother David and our beautiful Mom with you. I hope you hold them tight and share the love of family, we miss that the most. Rest in Gods Heavenly Peace until we meet again. Love, your baby sis, Kat & Tom
Tim & Kat Dobosenski
February 16, 2019 | Ixford, MI | Sister
Dearest Bob,
Here it is 2007, 4 years after you left this world as we know it. It doesn't seem possible that I continued on without you in my life. Of course you are always with us, as I have expressed many times before. Four years later has brought us new grandchildren in the family and 2 are yours! We are very blessed to have all of the new faces in our lives. As they will be the ones to carry our legacies on.
I still miss you as much as I did the first day you left. I can...
Kat Dobosenski
February 03, 2007 | Oxford, MI
As our family continues to grow with many Grandchildren in the years since you've passed on, it seems that would fill the void of missing you, but it doesn't. You will always be missed by all who knew and loved you. Someday we will meet again, and I can't wait to see you healthy again. You taught us so much, that none of us could have faced without your strength guiding the way. I miss you, I miss your family, I miss your wife, my sister-in-law, I miss the way we were for so many years. ...
Kat Dobosenski
December 20, 2005 | Oxford, MI
Happy Birthday to "the best brother in the whole wide world". I wish you were here to give a big hug to. I miss you so much. You were the glue of my existance, which I thought I knew, but didn't realize how much until you were gone. God certainly blessed me by putting you in my life, and I feel so fortunate for that. I will never forget you, never stop loving you, never stop bragging about what a wonderful person you were, let alone a brother. You were so humble and loving, and stood back and...
Kat & Tom Dobosenski
November 29, 2004 | Oxford, MI
We are all feeling the pain of losing you, every day. Today marks the first year since you joined God. Mom had coffee with you this morning in your favorite cup in honor of your coffee clutches that you had with her a few times a week. Mom misses you so, as we all do. I talk with you everyday, and will always have you with me spiritually. When I see a shining star, I know you are shining on us. We are much richer from having you in our life, and will cherish that forever. As I wrote in the...
Tom & Kat Dobosenski
February 21, 2004 | Oxford, MI
Tom, Kat, Judy and Bob, together forever
As I try to celebrate my first birthday without you physically with me, I have to fight myself to be strong. As we celebrated our November birthday's somewhat together. I know in my heart that you are with all of us, yet I ache to be with you physically. I long to see you healthy and happy. I realize that you are out of pain, and I am grateful for that, but it doesn't fill the void in my heart. I am ever so grateful to God for giving me you all of my life. What a gift that was. Thank you for...
Kat Dobosenski
November 13, 2003 | Oxford, MI
I didn't Know
I didn't know how much a heart could ache
Until half of me was gone
I didn't know so many tears could fall at the mention of your name
I didn't know I was going to sleep alone and long for your warm, gentle touch
I didn't know I would bury my face in your clothes, just to have your smell
I didn't know my life would be so different, where there was two now only one
I didn't know my happiness would be taken from me so soon...
Judy Hocking
March 29, 2003 | Waterford, MI
Dear Judy, Dana, Dean, and Nicole,
Bob will live within our hearts forever....
Do not stand by my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am a diamond glint of snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft stars shine at night.
Do not stand by my...
Connie and John Lynch
March 24, 2003 | Boca Raton, FL
I miss you
I never knew I had these tears
I never knew they’d come each day
I never knew this pain existed
I never knew this wound so deep
I’ve never felt such utter sadness
I’ve never missed some one this much
I long to feel your love,
Your hugs,
Your gentle presence in my life
I wish to look into your eyes again,
Connect the way we did
I try to wish away this void
I know will never leave
I feel as though God stole...
Nicole Hocking
March 17, 2003 | San Francisco, CA