Bob Hurt

Robert Mathis Hurt Sr was a decent enough father in most respects, and a hard-working businessman in sales of magazines, home improvements (a "tin man" of the 1950's), and air conditioning systems. He left our home home in Texas in 1954 and moved to the Chicago area. In time, he remarried, lived in the Batavia area, worked in a chemical processing facility and as a Christian Science practitioner. He divorced and remarried, and lasted a few years before rectal cancer developed. It eventually killed him. I lived in California when I received word of his death. I felt sad that I had not gone to visit him when he requested me to in the last year or so of his life. I knew him as a man with a great sense of humor, a hard earned sense of integrity, and high intelligence. Somewhere I have stashed away philosophical commentaries he wrote about Christian Science principles in application. He taught me how to heal seemingly incurable problems. Once when I faced imminent divorce I asked what I should do because my wife seemed to want everything in the settlement. He told me to have no trouble on me and to give her whatever she wants because God has made available replacements for everything I need. I followed that sage advice and discovered that he had advised me wisely.