Ronald 'Ronnie' Neil Dobson Jr.

Ronnie was an avid walker frequently seen walking around town with his latest artwork, stopping to talk and joke with whomever he came across. He loved bright colors frequently wearing bright bandanas in his pockets or around his neck. He had a caustic wit as well as being a practical joker. He once climbed on top of her grandmother’s refrigerator sitting there on the top watching her as she moved around the kitchen waiting for her to look up. He was an exceptional artist who was a perfectionist, working many long hours on a project until he got what he wanted. His artistic hero was Norman Rockwell with whom he corresponded receiving five letters and then finally getting to meet him in 1975, the greatest thrill of his life (next to me of course) at the time. He also got to go up on the Empire State Building another thrill on the same trip. Also, like many creative people he was also a musician playing bass, electric guitar, and piano. He no longer had a piano we were looking for keyboards but he loved his bass and electric guitar. Music was always on at our house, Ronnie listened to music while he worked, playing his own instruments between projects. His musical heroes were the Beatles, Paul McCartney in particular, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and Don Henley. Another great joy of Ronnie’s life was seeing Paul McCartney in concert at the BOK Center in 2007. He loved Sherlock Homes, old sci-fi, and horror movies. Many of these he portrayed in his paintings. He loved animation, King- Kong was a frequent subject. Halloween was his favorite holiday. Ronnie was a World War II enthusiast with battleship as his specialty. He most especially life the German battleship “Bismarck” for its aesthetic design as well as the innovations to its armor and the power it represented. It always impressed him that as powerful as it was its job was not to fight but to cut off supply lines of their enemies and that after being vastly outnumbered and beaten to a pulp it did not sink until the crew scuttled the ship. Ronnie loved literature especially Shakespeare and Mark Twain. He also always tried to improve himself to understand himself as well as others. He started reading Freud when he was 16 continuing his search for understanding throughout his life. He was an amalgam, our eccentricities balanced each other, he was my sunshine and I will miss him every day of my life. Rily always and forever.

Ronald 'Ronnie' Neil Dobson Jr.

October 5, 1951 - July 18, 2017