He enjoyed bus trips to various locations across the US and he loved visiting with his family and friends. Bob’s hobbies included coins, miniatures, bridge, bowling and golf. Soon after, the business became known as B & B Coins, located in the Willowbrook Plaza, Mason City. Several years later, and because of Bob’s love of coins, Bob and Betty owned and operated Coin Corner and Miniatures. In 1964, Bob and Betty moved the family to Mason City, Iowa where Bob was Chief Lab Tech at Park Hospital. He later opened up his own private laboratory in Port Arthur. It was there he met wife Betty and they were married on July 8, 1950, and soon moved to Port Arthur, Texas where Bob worked as a lab technician at the Texaco plant/refinery. He served in the US Army, and then attended Medical Technician School in St. Bob was born October 17, 1926, in Hannibal, Missouri, the son of Cecil and Margaret (Renner) Stark. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed in Bob’s name to the Good Shepherd Health Center, 302 – 2nd Street NE, Mason City, Iowa 50401. Visitation will be from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM on Sunday, March 16, 2014, at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Graveside services will be held at 11:00 AM on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, at Grand View Burial Park in Hannibal, Missouri with Dr. Robert Franklin Stark, 87, of Mason City, Iowa, died Tuesday, March 11, 2014, at the Good Shepherd Health Center in Mason City.
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