Robert Bob (Augie) Argenbright died of pulmonary disease at the University of Maryland Medical Center on November 11, 2010.
He would have celebrated his 79th birthday on December 1st.
Bob was an electrician at the Bethlehem Steel Ship Yard in Maryland for 42 years and retired in 1992.
Bob was born in Buena Vista, Virginia, the son of Meredith Argenbright and Hattie Wheeler Henson.
In 1952, he and his wife of 58 years, Shirley, moved to Maryland, where they lived for 42 years before retiring from Bethlehem Steel. They moved back to Virginia in 1994.
They lived in Lynchburg and Buena Vista for the next fifteen years. They recently moved back to Ellicott City, Maryland in June, 2009 to be near their daughters and grandchildren.
Bob was a well-known country/bluegrass musician around Baltimore, Maryland for many years. He and his bands played many of the local hot spots and popular country music "watering holes." He continued to play more casually in Buena Vista with his brother, Harold, and nephew, Tim Argenbright, in neighborhood homes and on the many porches and patios of other musical, good friends.
Bob played music at the early age of 14 on the radio. He continued to master instruments including playing guitar, bass, violin, mandolin, banjo and steel guitar over the year, bringing joy to many people.
Never meeting a stranger, Bob, in his later years spent most of his time with his wife helping family and others as well as visiting local nursing homes, making people laugh and smile. Daily fun visits included all his special friends who worked at the local Walmart. All who were lucky enough to know him knew that he was kind, generous, the master of a great joke and loved an audience.
He is survived by his wife, Shirley Argenbright; two brothers, Harold and Wilton Argenbright; a sister, Ellen Faye Wilson; two daughters, Sheila Corbitt and Cindy Bocek; two grandsons, Matthew and Brad Bocek; and two great grandchildren, Karli and Cameron Bocek, brother of deceased sister, Jean Jones.
Services were held in Maryland and he is now resting at the Crest Lawn Memorial Gardens in Maryland.
