Bobbye Quick Cobb entered into the presence of her Master on the evening of March 31, 2024. Born on September 9, 1929 in Vidette, Georgia, she wrote some years ago that she was "adopted by a young Burke County, Georgia farm overseer and his wife, Lloyd Quick and Pearl Aaron Quick." Lloyd and Pearl were also her biological paternal uncle and aunt. They proceeded Bobbye in death in addition to her biological father, Bracton Quick and birth mother, Lula Holland Quick who died shortly after Bobbye's birth. Also proceeding her in death were her sister, Frankie Quick McClellan, and niece, Dean McClellan Hall of Waynesboro.

She also wrote about her upbringing, "not endowed with material wealth, my family provided my sister and me with love and a high sense of moral and spiritual values." They also instilled in her the essentials of hard work and determination in all that she would pursue. A 1946 graduate of Waynesboro High School, Bobbye continued on to Georgia Teachers College, now Georgia Southern University, in what was known as "Collegeboro, a suburb of Statesboro." Graduating from GTC in 1950, she left with a bachelor's degree in English and a minor in Library Science. Over the following two decades, she pursued additional studies completing degree requirements for a Master of Education and as an Education Specialist, both in counseling. Working for decades in the field of education, she went to numerous continuing education courses in Georgia, South Carolina, and Mississippi. Her years of influencing, teaching, and encouraging students were in multiple counties in Georgia including Wilkes, Bulloch, Emmanuel, and Jenkins from which she retired in 1992.

Employers from her earliest working years also benefitted from her tenacity while she learned new skills and honed those she had. At Georgia Southern, she served as an assistant librarian and graduate assistant in the 1960s, as well as the General Services Administration in Washington, D.C. where she was an editorial assistant. She was even on the payroll, as a copy writer and radio announcer, of Radio Station WKLE in Washington, Georgia for a time.

In the academic world over the years, Bobbye was honored as Star Teacher, First District Counselor of the Year, and served in multiple positions of professional teaching organizations at the local and state levels. Her three years as a summer counselor at the Governor's Honors Program on the Wesleyan College campus were highlights of her career. She further invested in local students wherever she served through faculty advisory roles for the annual staff and especially her much-loved  "Y Club" activities. This was especially true in her role with the Henderson Tri-Hi-Y at Jenkins County High School. She particularly relished her role in assisting members as they prepared for the Y Club's annual youth and government education program, Youth Assembly. At various times in her adult years, she also served her communities in various capacities, including on the Jenkins County Board of Education, the Jenkins County Hospital Authority Board, and through the Woman's Club and garden clubs of Bulloch and Jenkins County.

Regardless of her academic and work achievements, as a follower of Christ, she desired to invest in the spiritual health of others, just as she grew in the knowledge of God's Word and was shaped by it herself – the latter which she would say in her early 90s, was still happening. She did so in many ways over her life, through years of working with the Young Women's Auxiliary and Baptist Student Unions (now BCM) for college students as well as Vacation Bible Schools in every location where she lived.  Her last church of service was Millen Baptist where she served as director of the Women's Missionary Union for 20 years, taught Sunday school, led a women's missions study group, sang in the sanctuary choir, and traveled with multiple mission teams. Her love for the Lord, her desire to encourage others in cross-cultural ministry, and her longing to support missionaries led to her choice for designated memorial gifts.

Bobbye is survived by nieces, Diane M. Quick of Hepzibah and Donna M. (Frank) LaRoche of Brunswick; a nephew Donald M. McClellan, Jr., Silver Creek, MS; and multiple great and great-great nieces and nephews. She also leaves behind close and long-term friends, Leigh Ann Diffenderfer, Thousand Oaks, CA; Amy Garigan, Martinez; and Sally Counselman, Millen; the latter two who were involved in her care during her last years. Cards, notes of encouragement and thanks, including those written in yearbooks from over her many decades, were found among her belongings and reflect that there are countless former students, co-workers, and friends she leaves behind as well.

Visitation will be on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 10 a.m., at the Millen Baptist Church Fellowship Hall. The service will follow at 11 a.m with Dr. Cliff Morris Officiating.

The private burial will follow at Burke Memorial Garden, Waynesboro, GA.

Pallbearers will be Eddie Brown, Steve Burke, Kenton Jenkins, Bubba Rountree, Kirk Tatum, and Bunny Johnson.

In lieu of flowers, please send memorial gifts to the "Esther Fund" for Camp Pinnacle of the Georgia Baptist Women: Checks by Mail:                 Georgia WMU  (Note: "Esther Fund" in memory of Bobbye Cobb), 4295 Brogdon Exchange, Suwanee, GA 30024.Online: Follow the online directions at: https://georgiabaptistwomen.org/estherfund/

Crowe-Fields Funeral Home of Millen in charge of attangements.