Bobbie C. Langland

Bobbie C. Langland was born on June 7, 1930, in Iowa Park, Texas. Her parents were Claude and Bertha (Cox) Quattlebaum. She had one sister, Glenda Boren, who died in 2004.

Bobbie was married in 1947 to Ernest Lee from Parkersburg and Vienna, West Virginia. They had one daughter, Karen E. Lee. Mr. Lee was killed on Good Friday in 1952 along with his crew of three men returning home from work on a rig out of Midland, Texas.

Bobbie married Fred Handlin in December 1952. They had two sons, Rickey Lynn and Scotty Greg. Mr. Handlin died at Easter time in 1977 from a brain tumor at Audie Murphy Hospital in San Antonio, Texas.

Bobbie married Buddy Nichols on May 6, 1978. Mr. Nichols died on New Year’s Day in 1988 from bladder cancer. They traveled to the Bahamas so Buddy could seek treatment at a cancer clinic located there.

Bobbie married Karl Langland on July 30th, 2016. Mr. Langland died on March 22, 2017, in Monahans, Texas.

Bobbie was predeceased by her son, Scotty, on October 25, 2022, and is survived by her daughter, Karen, and her son, Rickey. She also leaves behind several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Bobbie had an exciting life. She loved baking and decorating cakes. She went to Odessa, Texas and got her degree in cake decorating in 1978. She was hired by Mr. Jim Jordan at Monahans High School to teach two classes weekly to the adult community for the schools of cake decorating. She also had her bakery in her home for a while. She loved baking different cakes, pies, and candy which she proudly took to her church each time church met. Her specialty to the church was banana pudding and tiger butter candy. Bobbie told her pastor, “The Bible says ‘Feed my sheep,’ so I’m trying to do that.”

She earned her flower arranging certificate in 1988. Bobble loved a pretty yard and kept it pretty the year round. Her backyard was a beautiful, peaceful, and serene oasis filled with beautiful flowers and shrubs…the perfect place to sit and entertain guests who were filled with awe of the beauty, peace, and talent it reflected.

Among Bobbie’s other talents was her love of painting. She proudly displayed in her home the many pictures she had painted. She also worked in her Church as a Sunday School teacher teaching small children. Bobbie firmly believed what the Bible says about doing unto others as you would want others to do unto you - treat everyone fairly and love each other with unconditional love as Jesus loved us.