NEW BOSTON, Illinois - Robert D. Combs, 80, of New BOSTON, died Tuesday July 29, 2008, at Unity Hospital in Muscatine.

Service will be at Fippinger Funeral Home in Aledo, Illinois. Burial is at New BOSTON Cemetery.

Memorials may be left to the New BOSTON Cemetery.

Mr. Combs was born September 6, 1927, in London Mills, Illinois, the son of Cecil and Velma Spurlock Combs. He attended the London Mills Schools. He married Penny Lyerla on January 27, 1958, in Madison, Illinois.

He was a licensed barber in New BOSTON since 1965 and was employed as a carpenter with the Union Local No. 166. He was a Democratic precinct committeeman.

He enjoyed fishing, recycling, family fish fry’s and cookouts and he especially enjoyed being with his family and grandchildren.

He is survived by his wife, Penny Combs of New BOSTON, Illinois; two sons, Bruce Robinson and wife, Bessie, of Aledo, Illinois; Jim Robinson and wife, Sue, of Erie, Illinois; six grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two sisters, Betty Giles of Tucson, Arizona; Wanda Patterson of Hannibal, Missouri; two brothers, Gene Combs of Phoenix, Arizona; and Ben Combs of Colorado Springs, Colorado; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents.