Ken Mobley

Oran "Ken" Mobley, age 77, joined his Lord and Savior in heaven on Wednesday, the 10th of July 2013.
Ken was born in Red Rock, Texas, on the 23rd of August 1935. He was the first child of Oran W. and Bessie Jo Mobley. His birth was soon followed by the birth of his loving sister, Janet. At the age of three, Ken moved with his parents and sister to Houston, Texas, where he would attend Reagan High School and the University of Houston, College of Pharmacy. After graduating college, Ken would own and operate his family pharmacies for more than 30 years and thereafter work for many years as a licensed pharmacist for Kelsey Seybold Clinic and CVS Pharmacy.
As a devout Christian, Ken was a loving husband, father, grand-father, and brother to his family, and dedicated his life to serving others, his church, and his community. For more than 40 years, Ken was an active member of First Baptist Church of Houston and after his retirement from work attended Second Baptist Church. For many years, Ken served as an ordained chaplain in the Bill Glass Prison Ministry mentoring and disciplining your prisoners, traveling on numerous church building missions trips to Mexico, volunteering as a ESL teacher for the Fort Bend County Literacy Council, and supporting the Pro-life work of the Pregnancy Resource Center of Fort Bend County and the charitable relief work of Compassion International for underprivileged children.
Ken was preceded in death by his parents and is survived by his wife and best friend, Theresa; his sister, Janet and her husband, Kenneth Butts; his daughters, Susie Mobley and Michelle Mobley Ponder and their mother, Joyce, and son-in-law, Joe; step-son, Jason DeLage, and grand-children, Catherine Ponder and Joseph Ponder.
Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from five o'clock in the afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening on Sunday, the 14th of July in the library and grand foyer of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
A funeral service is to be conducted at eleven o'clock in the morning on Monday, the 15th of July, in the Jasek Chapel of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, where the Rev. Larry Ideker is to officiate.

The family will gather for a private interment at the Mobley Family Cemetery in Red Rock, Texas.

In lieu of customary remembrances, and for those desiring, memorial contributions may be directed to Compassion International or Love a Child, Inc.