Robert Lee Wyatt Ill was born on January 27, 1940, the third child of Robert Lee Wyatt Jr. and Melba Ruth (Green) Wyatt. He entered his Heavenly home on August 7, 2015.  Bob was the grandson of Big Pasture pioneers Robert Lee Wyatt Sr. and Mahala Topsy (Barnes) Wyatt, and Burkburnett, Texas, pioneers, Walter Monroe Green, long time Burkburnett Police Chief, and Maude Magalee (Bunch) Green. He was born in Grandfield, Oklahoma. Jesse Crockett Barnes, an entrepreneur from Buffalo Valley, Tennessee, who was very well known in the Big Pasture cities during the early years, was his great-grandfather.

Bob Wyatt attended school in Devol until it closed in 1953.  He transferred to Grandfield High School, graduating there in 1957. He was president of his senior class at GHS. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English and Speech from the University of Oklahoma in January 1963. While at OU, he was a member of the Men's Glee Club, performing in many states across the U.S. He performed a solo in the 1958 Sooner Scandals. He was on the Freshman Welcoming Committee and escorted various celebrities such as Helen Keller while they visited the campus. He was in one play at the OU drama department, Teahouse of the August Moon. In 1988, he received his Master's of Education from OU, and in 1990, he received his Doctor of Philosophy in Language Arts Education. He was hooded in the doctoral ceremony by his son, Bobby, the first time a son had hooded his father in an OU graduation ceremony. 

Inspired by four of his previous English teachers from Devol, Grandfield and OU, Wyatt became an English teacher. He worked for 25 years teaching in public schools in Iowa Park, Texas; Las Cruces, New Mexico; and Grandfield, Oklahoma, before going into higher education classrooms where he worked for 20 years teaching at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces; Tarrant County Junior College, Fort Worth, Texas; Vernon Regional Junior College, Vernon, Texas; University of Oklahoma, Norman; and East Central University, Ada, Oklahoma (where he was named Teacher of the Year for three years). 

Wyatt was baptized with his mother and brothers Ronald and John in 1953, into the membership of First Baptist Church of Devol, Oklahoma. Among his interesting life facts is that he became the youngest bookkeeper at Kimbell Milling Company when he was twelve and was the only bookkeeper for the Devol Elevator, a job he did each wheat harvest until he was 20.  He then went to Culbertson, Nebraska, to become the youngest manager of a grain elevator in the United States, working for Bartlett Grain out of Kansas City. 

While in Nebraska, he met and later married Louise Carole Bard on October 28, 1961, at Palisade Methodist Church in Palisade, Nebraska. They had two children Melanie and Bobby.

Wyatt was a writer. He wrote two plays that were produced, Mail Order Murderand Lost Island (a high school musical). Wyatt wrote the lyrics for the musical and also wrote a gospel song, Under a Bushel Don't Hide Your Light. He wrote four volumes of history on his home towns of Devol and Grandfield:  DEVOL. The Gateway to the Big Pasture and GRANDFIELD, The Hub of the Big Pasture (Volumes 1-3).  He had two text books published with Sage Publishing, So You Have to Have a Portfolio, with Sandra Looper, and Making Your First Year a Success with Dr.Elaine White. He also wrote THE HAVERSTOCK TENT SHOW: The Show With A Millioin Friends, about his dear friends, the Haverstocks, who traveled through Oklahoma and the central United States in a tent repertoire company from 1911-1954. It was published by the University of Southern Illinois Press. He wrote several other books that are completed, but as yet are unpublished. 

Wyatt and his wife published Grandfield’s Big Pasture News for ten years while he taught high school in Grandfield. He and Louise also owned and operated the Lee Dawn Shop, a ladies dress shop, in Grandfield. He was instrumental, along with Vera Colyer, Kaye Colyer Wirz and Mike Stoddard, in founding Grandfield Senior Citizens' Center, and he was the president of BIG, an organization for the Betterment and Improvement of Grandfield with those four as members. 

He founded the Grandfield Harvest Playhouse community theater, in 1970, and was its resident director through 1986, producing approximately 100 plays there including several musicals and traveling to approximately 25 Oklahoma and Texas cities in 1976 with the Harvest Playhouse Tent Show Revival.  He was also president of the Ada Community Theater, ACT II, for eleven years and directed and/or appeared in approximately 80 plays in Ada. Bob also worked in the Burkburnett Community Theater where he directed and starred in Guys and Dolls.  He also performed that play in Grandfield where his brothers Ronald and Mike also had singing roles. He directed plays in the Wing and Masque Community Theater at General Dynamics where he was a motion picture writer and director. He also performed at Tarrant County Junior College Theater in Fort Worth. He was chosen to be in the Oklahoma City Lyric Theater production company of Guys and Dolls, but declined the role of Rusty Charlie, because of so many other commitments in his calendar.

He was the music director of Baptist churches for more than 25 years and was a volunteer at the Grandfield Colonial Village Nursing Home for thirteen years, going there twice a week for volunteer activities. He was a watercolor, oil and pastel artist, and taught private art lessons in Grandfield for several years.  He painted the mural hanging in the baptistry of the Devol Baptist Church. 

Wyatt was preceded in death by a brother, Buddy Darrell Wyatt, and a sister, Bobbie Ruth Wyatt, both of whom died as infants prior to his birth. He was also preceded in death by his parents, Robert Lee Wyatt Jr, on March 8, 1978, and Melba Ruth (Green) Wyatt, on July 3, 1998, and his brother William “Mike” Wyatt, on December 5, 2010.  Wyatt is survived by his wife, Louise Carole Bard Wyatt, of the home and their daughter Melanie Wyatt of Fort Worth, Texas; a son and daughter-in-law, Robert Lee Wyatt IV and Vicki Harris Wyatt of Oklahoma City; two brothers, John Wayne Wyatt of Devol, Ronald Lynn Wyatt of Woodville, Texas; a brother in law, Charles Bard of St. George, Utah and a sister-in- law, Deloris Bard Fowler and her husband Dallas of Geneva, Nebraska. He is also survived by many nieces and nephews, cousins and friends, and the more than 5,000 students whom he taught over his teaching experience.

SERVICES.  A memorial service will be held at the Grandfield First Baptist Church on Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 10:00 AM.   A visitation with the family is scheduled Friday, August 14 from 7:00-9:00PM also at the Grandfield First Baptist Church in the Fellowship Hall.  In lieu of flowers, donations or memorials can be made to the Grandfield First Baptist Church, the Devol First Baptist Church or any Alzheimer's organization of your choice.