The funeral service for Robert “Bob” Vern Wagner, age 83, will be at 10:00 A.M. Friday, March 5, 2010, at Emmanuel Baptist Church, with Pastor Wade Burleson officiating.  A private family burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, with arrangements by Anderson-Burris Funeral Home.  A visitation for family and friends will be Thursday evening from 6:30 to 7:30 pm at the funeral home.

     He was born to Vern and Lillie Ann (Hodson) Wagner on May 17, 1926, in Louisville, Colorado, and died Monday, March 1, 2010 at St. Mary’s Regional Hospital in Enid.

     Bob grew up in Oklahoma City, Clinton and Stafford, KS where he graduated from Stafford High School in 1944.  At age eighteen he began his service in the U.S. Navy in the submarine division.  Bob served in World War II and Korean War.  In 1952 he graduated from Wichita State University and went to work for Baker Manufacturing in Fort Dodge, Iowa as a salesman.  There he met and married Shirley Kreimar on Oct. 31, 1953.  From 1954 – 1957 he was a manufacturer rep and traveled in Iowa, Nebraska and St. Louis, Missouri.  In 1958, Bob and family moved to Enid, where he joined his father in the plumbing and heating business known as Vern Wagner Supply, and later known as Winnelson.  He was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church and Gideons.  Bob loved golf and was past president of the Meadowlake Men’s Association.

     Bob is survived by Shirley, his wife of 56 years; four children, Chad Wagner and wife Mary Jane of Acton, Mass., Kristie Burr and husband Charles of Weatherford, Robin Hiebert and husband Rex of Meno, and Todd Wagner and wife Lorie of Gentry, Ark,; sister JoAnn Fischer of Danville, KY.; thirteen grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

     He was preceded in death by his parents, and sister Nancy Crowley.

     Memorials may be made through the funeral home to the Gideons.