Robert DuBose

Funeral director

Robert Earl DuBose, 63, of Lodi, died March 2 in Orlando, Fla. following a sudden illness. He was born May 29, 1943, in St. Helena.

Robert DuBose

Mr. DuBose lived in Angwin, Santa Rosa and Placerville before relocating to Lodi in 1951. He attended SDA Elementary School and then graduated from Lodi Academy in 1962. While in school, he played the trumpet in the band and in a trumpet trio, sang in the Lodian Singers and at weddings and funerals. He was also a guest soloist in the Messiah in Ukiah. He attended Pacific Union College in Angwin for a year and then the College of Mortuary Science in Los Angeles, where he graduated in 1965. That same year he married Kathy Hunt in Williams. Following his graduation, he worked as a funeral director in Corona, then at Nightingale's Funeral Home in Sacramento and finally at B.C. Wallace Funeral Home in Stockton. He also worked for his father at DuBose Plastering and later obtained a plasterer's contractor license. Recently, he spent his winters in Florida, working in construction at Disney World and the Orlando Convention Center. He enjoyed water and snow skiing and family camp-outs at Yosemite National Park. He was a member of English Oaks Seventh-day Adventist Church and also attended Florida Hospital Seventh-day Adventist Church in Orlando. He was also a member of the Plasterer's Union Local No. 66 in San Francisco.

He is survived by his son, Brian Christopher; daughters, Corrin Chantel and Debra Linn; sister, Valerie Suelzle, of Lodi; and mother, Erleen DuBose, of Lodi.

He was preceded in death by his father, Robert Lee DuBose in 2002.

A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. March 17 at Lodi Funeral Home with Pastors Wayne Young and Robert Williams officiating. There will be no visitation and committal will be private.

A virtual register book may be signed at www.lodifuneralhome.com.

Lodi Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.