Robert Allen “Bob” Oren, an 89-year-old resident of Lee’s Summit, died on Sunday, March 15, 2020.
Memorial services are planned later this summer in Texas. Longview Funeral Home and Cemetery of Lee’s Summit is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Oren was born on April 11, 1930, the son of Rex and Fay Oren of Trenton. He attended Trenton High School and Trenton Junior College. He was a member of the U.S. Air Force, stationed in Lakenheath, England during the Korean War. He played for the base basketball team, which became the Air Force European champions in 1952. Upon his discharge, he married his wife, Norma, in 1955. They moved to Missouri and he attended Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, obtaining degrees in business and economics.
He worked many years as a farmer/cattleman before moving his family to Blanco, TX. He was president of the All Sports Booster Club. He later joined the Amateur Athletic Union as a track and field official, spending 30 years in the organization, often as head official of the National Junior Olympics. He and his wife moved to the Lee’s Summit area in 2019 to be near their children.
He is survived by his wife, Norma Horany Oren; six children and their spouses, Cindy, Robert, Neda, Thomas, Amanda and Kathryn; and seven grandchildren.
He is preceded in death by one son, Andrew.
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