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Robert F. 'Bob' Grambling Shreveport, LA QCWA # 19108 Chapter 85 |
COLUMBIA, SC - A private burial for Robert F. Grambling, 86, will be held in Ruston, Louisiana, where Marne Dee Grambling, his wife of sixty years, is buried. A resident of the Rice Home since 2004, he died Thursday, October 11, 2007, at a local hospital after a short illness. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, he was the son of the late James Berry Grambling and Ethel Schlegel. He was a band director in the Louisiana Public School system for twenty-five years and was recently elected to the Louisiana Music Educators Hall of Fame.
Mr. Grambling interrupted his education at Southeastern Louisiana College, Hammond, Louisiana, to serve as an officer in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He went on to receive a master's degree in vocal and instrumental music from LSU in Baton Rouge. He served as director of bands in Minden, Louisiana and at Byrd High School in Shreveport. His bands were known for their consistency, musicianship and the quality of his students.
For many years Mr. Grambling performed in the trombone section of the Shreveport Symphony and was an active free-lance trombonist with many bands and orchestras in the North Louisiana area.
Surviving are his son, Robert Gregory Grambling of Ruston, Louisiana; his daughter, Constance Grambling Lane and her husband, G.B. Lane, of Columbia; and granddaughter, Branden Dunham Lane of Winchester, Virginia.
Please sign online guest book at www.dunbarfunerals.com
Dunbar Funeral Home
Columbia, SC 803-771-7990
Published in the Shreveport Times on 10/13/2007.