September 07, 1945 - November 23, 2020
The Funeral services celebrating and honoring the life of Robert Fleig, 75, of Enid, will be held 2:00 P.M. Saturday November 28, 2020 in the Brown-Cummings Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Gary Miller officiating burial will follow in the Memorial Park Cemetery. Military Honors will be conducted by the United States Army. Services are under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.
Robert “Bobby” Fleig was born September 7, 1945 to Clarence Joseph and Betty Joe Turn Fleig in Kansas City, Missouri and passed from this life November 23, 2020 in Grove, Oklahoma.
He was raised and educated in Westville, Oklahoma. He married Lillian “Louise” Forbes July 10, 1965 in Enid, Oklahoma; from that union came three daughters. He joined the United States Army in February 1966. After his Honorable discharge from the United States Army he moved to Enid and began working for The City of Enid in Traffic Control. He then worked on the railroad for eighteen years. He then worked in the custodial department at Vance Air Force base for twenty years until his retirement in 2010. He married his wife of 23 years Elsie Martin in Enid September 1997. He enjoyed watching OU football, being outside, hunting and fishing, watching stock car racing and absolutely loved spending time with his family, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.
He is survived by his wife Elsie Fleig, of the home, daughters Savonna Bruning, of Enid, and Angie Roche, of Edmond; stepdaughter, Teresa Hooper; grandchildren, Haley and Cheyenne Roche, Christopher and Alan Fleig; step granddaughter Krista Bueno and numerous great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by one daughter, Debora Fleig; one step daughter, Kelly Martin; one brother, James Fleig; and three sisters, Savonna Sheets, Rita May Sheets, and Twila Sheets.
The family has requested that in lieu of flowers memorial be given in his honor to the Warriors for Freedom Foundation with Brown-Cummings Funeral Home serving as custodian of the funds.
Condolences may be made to the family online at www.Brown-Cummings.com. As one of Oklahomaʼs oldest single family owned and operated providers of funerals and cremations, Brown-Cummings is the name families have turned to for generations. They fully understand the honor and responsibility entrusted to them to preserve the story of oneʼs life. Visit 400 W. Maple, Enid, OK 73701. Call: (580) 237-5432.
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