February 1, 1933 – February 4, 2023
NOCONA – Bobbie Jo Wylie, 90, transitioned to her heavenly home on Feb. 4, 2023 in Nocona.
Bobbie’s family will receive friends from 6 – 8 p.m. on Feb. 8 at Scott-Morris Funeral Home Chapel in Nocona. Her service will be at 2 p.m. on Feb. 9 at First United Methodist Church in Forestburg with interment following at Perryman Cemetery.
Bobbie Jo Wylie was born on Feb. 1, 1933 to Ollie Lloyd Tipton and Izora (McCool) Tipton in Forestburg on the site where Decie Ellzey’s home stood. She spent most of her early years living in Nocona, Benjamin and Sanger. Receiving a strong dose of the McCool/Mitchell genes, she was a very strong-willed person. In school she excelled in basketball, winning all district honors while playing for Sanger High School.
While living in Benjamin, she started working for the local telephone company and transferred to Saint Jo as a telephone operator. There through lifelong friends Clifford and Dorothy Richardson, she met George Ditzler (Red) Wylie Jr. They were married in February 1954. These friendships lasted a lifetime. On more Sunday afternoons than not, you could find them with these friends and sometimes more at Clifford and Dorothy’s home where the game was 42.
She traveled all over Texas with 4-H kids and also traveled the state going to Longhorn cattle shows. Until Red’s death the two owned and operated the local grocery, market, gas and feed store called Wylie’s Grocery. Her long-time treasured friend Catherine Willis would say, “You can get everything from barbed wire to cucumbers there.” They also raised cattle.
Bobbie is preceded in death by her husband; her parents; sister and brother-in-law, Louise and Junior Wade; two brothers, Thomas Eugene Tipton and Samuel Lloyd Tipton; brother-in-law, Merwyn Tucker, and sister-in-law, Thelma Josephine Wylie.
She is survived by one daughter, Sheree Roberts and husband Jim Bob, Forestburg; two grandchildren, Kimberly Collins and husband Jim, Sadler and Jy Roberts, Denton; one great-grandchild, Wylie Collin, Sadler; sister, Polly Ann Tucker, Sanger; sisters-in-law Miyoko (Jeanie) Tipton, Pilot Point and Clara Tipton, Sanger; many nieces, nephews and a host of loved and cherished friends.
An Online Guestbook is available at scottmorrisfh.com.
Arrangements entrusted to Scott Morris Funeral Home in Nocona.

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