Robert Drake

Robert Brion Drake, 53, loving husband, devoted father and ecstatic grandfather, passed away March 18, 2009, after a long, valiant struggle with cancer. He is survived by his wife of 28 years, Marylou, his daugher MacKenzie VanArsdall, her husband and Bob"™s "second son" Jamie VanArsdall, his son Brion Drake, and his granddaughter Daisy VanArsdall all of Mustang. He is also survived by his sisters Vicki Rouland (husband Lee Rouland; children Johnny Foulks, Donny Been, Sarah Gillaspie, Fawnswa Burrows and Silver Buonocore) Sara Drake (husband Tom Barnard; children Savannah Barnard and Sadie Barnard), and his brother James Drake (wife Killeen Drake). After graduating from Putnam City High School in 1974, Bob decided that carpentry was his life and spent the rest of it working hard to support the family that was the center of his universe. In addition to watching and cheering for OU football, Bob loved to fish, collected coins, and was an incredible scholar of US history and all things military and...