Service is Thursday for Bob Case

Robert L. (Bob) Case

A funeral service is scheduled for 4 p.m. Thursday for Robert L. (Bob) Case, professor of health and kinesiology, past head of that department, and former Sam Houston State University athletic director, who died suddenly at his home Monday night.

The service for Case, 64, will be held at First Baptist Church in Huntsville under the direction of the Sam Houston Memorial Funeral Home.

Case was a professor and chair of health and kinesiology from 1983 until 2003 and athletic director as well from 1990-92.

He earned his bachelor's degree from Western Illinois University in 1963, and his master's and doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1964 and 1969.

Prior to coming to Sam Houston State he worked as an instructor and baseball coach at Palm Beach Junior College (1964-64), as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois (1968-70) and Wake Forest University (1970-73), as department chair and athletic director at Georgetown College (1973-75), and as chair of health, physical education and recreation at Marshall University (1975-83).

For additional information contact the Sam Houston Memorial Funeral Home at 936.291.7300 or online at http://www.funeralplan.com/samhoustonmemorialfuneralhome/.

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SHSU Media Contact: Frank Krystyniak
June 20, 2006
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