The memorial service for George Robert “Bob” Qualls, age 105, will be at 11:00 A.M. Friday, January 2, 2008, at the Central Christian Church, with Rev. John McLemore and Rev. Don Johnson officiating.   Cremation arrangements are by Anderson-Burris Funeral Home and Crematory.

     He was born to Matt Franklin and Minnie Miley (Tucker) Qualls on April 11, 1903 in Savannah, Tennessee, and died Sunday, December 28, 2008, in Enid.

     Bob graduated from the Oklahoma School for the Blind in Muskogee.  He then attended Texas Christian University, earning his Bachelors Degree and Masters Degree.  He then earned a Certification of Completion from Currie School of Expression in Boston, Massachusetts in 1930, and an Education Certificate from Northeastern College in Tahlequah in 1932.  He married Layleth Arnell Jones on December 19, 1936, in Oklahoma City, and they made their home in Enid where Bob operated a vending stand at the Post Office for several years while building his piano tuning business.

    He was a piano tuner and owned and operated Qualls Piano Service.  Bob was a member of Central Christian Church.    He was a charter board member and past president of the Oklahoma League for the Blind, charter member and past president of the Oklahoma Council of the Blind, member of the American Council of the Blind, and charter member of the Piano Technicians Guild, and a registered piano technician.

    He is survived by two sons, Robert C. Qualls and wife Lynne of Denver, Colorado, and  George D. Qualls and wife Frances of Appleton, Wisconsin, and; one granddaughter, Jennifer Stone of Appleton, Wisconsin.

     Bob was preceded in death by his father and mother; his wife Layleth in 1987; three brothers, Everett Qualls, Floyd Qualls, Ervin Qualls; and one sister, Ollie May Qualls.

    Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Hospice Circle of Love Respite Building Fund or Central Christian Church Caregivers.