Bob L. Huston of Holiday Island Arkansas passed on Easter morning, April 1, at age of 94.

Bob was born May 18, 1923, in El Dorado, Kansas, to Jesse Lester and Ina Vera Huston.

Believing God had called him into ministry, Bob attended Moody Bible Institute,
Chicago, with graduate studies at Hastings College, Nebraska, and the American
Baptist Seminary of The West, California. Bob was ordained in his home church,
Augusta KS (1947). He served as pastor in Kansas (Eureka, St. John, and as an Area
Minister). Moving to California, Bob served in Bakersfield, Temple City, and
Lompoc, followed by an ecumenical ministry with Forest Lawn Memorial Parks,
serving churches, clergy, and as an adjunct college & seminary professor for 25
years. Bob became President of the Hollywood Rotary Club and served as District
Governor.

Bob returned to the ministry in Camarillo, before he and his wife Lil moved to
Holiday Island (1994). Bob & Lil were charter members of the
Holiday Island Community Church. He assisted at the new Holiday Island
Presbyterian Church, becoming an ordained elder, later serving as interim pastor
for the church. He served as Worship Elder, started the Chancel Choir, and
initiated the Columbarium in the Memorial Garden. Bob was a member of the HI
Men’s Golf Association and Old Coots golfers, served as Chaplain of the HI Home
Owners Association, and helped organize Habitat for Humanity locally.

Bob is survived by sons Stephen and Philip; Stephen’s wife, Janet; step-daughter Cathy;
Grandson Evan, Evan’s wife Jenn, and his great-granddaughters Norah, Layla, and
Hannah.
Public memorial service: Friday, April 27 at 11am, Holiday Island Presbyterian
Church. Bob will be inurned in the church’s Memorial Garden, beside his wife, Lil,
who predeceased him in 2004