Name: Visitation for Robert A. Penn
Start: 2023-04-18T10:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-04-18T12:00:00.000Z
Location: Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Homes - Kingsport

Robert A Penn, 84, passed away Friday, April 14, 2023. Born and raised in Cynthiana, KY, Robert graduated from Eastern Kentucky University in 1960 and worked for the office of surface mining, Department of the Interior in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia before retiring as director of the Big Stone Gap, VA, office after 28 years. He was a great lover of sports cars and the University of Kentucky. Robert was known to come home from a round of golf, which he loved, bragging about getting scratched-up in the fairway hitting a little white ball with a stick. He raised a family with tenderness and love. All of us could spend days talking of his wonderful sense of humor, as he was one, ever so funny, man.

He was preceded in death by his parents, W.O. Penn and Evelyn Byrd Faulconer Penn.

Robert is survived by his wife, Darla Griffin Penn; children, Carolyn (Jody) Hendricks, Brent Penn, Travis (Lindsey) Penn, and Sabrina (Harold) Kelly; grandchildren, Ryan Penn, Nathaniel Brown, Kyle Penn, Erica Powell, Micah Penn, Maggie Kelley, and Laurel Kelley; great-grandchildren, Hayden Brown, Emma Sawyer, Piper Penn, and Corinne Gomez.

The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Home, Kingsport. The funeral service will follow at 1 p.m.

Burial will follow.

Please visit www.hamlettdobson.com to leave an online condolence for the family.

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Published by The Kingsport Times-News from Apr. 15 to Apr. 16, 2023.

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Bill Penn

April 23, 2023

In memory of my brother. From Billy Penn, Midway, Ky., on the left. Photo 2019.

Mike Lyons

April 18, 2023

Such a great guy. He was one of the funniest guys I've ever known. Kept us in stitches on our annual golf excursion to NC. He will be missed by all of us.

William Bass

April 17, 2023

Bob was a good man. He was very friendly to me. He had a great personality and I considered him a friend. May God bless his memory and give his family comfort during this difficult time. Bill Bass

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Roger Calhoun

April 16, 2023

I'm really sorry to hear about Bob's death. I worked with him for many years and considered him a good friend and work advisor. He did try to introduce me to golf once too. That ended in another Penn story that I still tell. We'll miss him

John Jones

April 16, 2023

RIP Bob. You were a great friend who always had something nice to say. You were the best OSM FOD I ever worked with. Always fair. Hope they have golf up there and we can play again one day.

Claud Hoskins

April 15, 2023

One funny man !!! He will surely be missed, especially on the September Hackers Golf Tour. R.I.P. Bob

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