In a closeknit industry where so many people are considered family, it’s impossible for a website like this to include obituaries industry-wide. Generally we have a policy not to include such milestones in our regular coverage. 
Once in a while one hits so close to home, however, IN the family AND in industry circles, I choose to plow ahead and archive the occassion herein.
Many in South Florida agriculture will remember Robert DuBois, Sr. of Boynton Beach as a key player in one of the most vibrant family-owned winter pepper growing operations in the state, and for a while years back, the country. But he was known simply as “Bobby” to most of us younger cousins growing up in his generation. Bobby passed away Sept 26 at the age of 68, and the family will miss him.
Survived by loving wife of 45 years, Joan, of Boynton Beach; son, Robert M. (Kelly) Du Bois, Jr., of Boynton Beach; daughter Melissa (Cary) Braswell, of Boynton Beach; grandchildren; Zachary Taylor Braswell, Chelsea Nicole Braswell, Robert M. Du Bois, III, Mason Andrew Du Bois, William Cash Du Bois and Alexander Cain Du Bois; Mother, Lois L. Du Bois; brother, William A. Du Bois, Jr.; sister, Joyce (Val Jean) Haley; niece, Brenda Arnold; mother-in-law, Elsie Grogan; sister-in-law, Ann Ward; nephew, Jeff Ward; niece, Melody Davis; brother-in-law, H.D. (Wanda) Cooper; nieces & nephews, Wendy Cooper, Leigh Ann Ash and Matt Cooper and many other nieces & nephews. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at Scobee-Combs-Bowden Funeral Home, corner of US Hwy. #1 & NE 15th Avenue, Boynton Beach. Funeral Services will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, at St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church, Boynton Beach, with burial to follow at Boynton Beach Memorial Park. Friends are asked to make donations to Bethesda Memorial Hospital Heart Institute, 2815 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach, FL, 33435, or St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church Building Fund, 3300 -A S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach, FL, 33435, in memory of Robert M. Du Bois, Sr.
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