Charlette Bobo, 75 of Little Rock, went to be with the Lord on Monday, August 26, 2013. If you ever had the opportunity to meet her, you would understand that she was a force to be reckoned with. She was a great woman that you could never forget. She was a fiery redhead with enough spunk to wrestle a Grizzly Bear and you better believe the fact that she was going to win. She loved life to the fullest and was never afraid to take something on full speed ahead. She would always say, I might not be able to do it myself, but I will get someone who can. She always had a love for family, a heart for service and love for everyone that she came in contact with. She was known to a multitude of people as "Momma Bobo".
Charlette was always a woman dedicated to her family. She was the oldest of six siblings and at the tender age of 10, she had to step up and help her mother with the other children when her father passed away. She met and married her husband Louis Bobo, at the age of 16. Then at the age of 18, with a young family of her own, Charlette accepted the challenge of raising her three brothers and two sisters after losing their mother to cancer. Her one and only goal was to hold on to her family and keep them all together. Even now after her siblings and children have all grown up, with children and grandchildren of their own, she still made it her mission to keep the family focused on being together by having the large extended family meet at least once a month to get together, to celebrate monthly birthdays and just to spend time connecting with each other.
Charlette had an adventuresome spirit. She loved Stock Car Racing, Demolition Derbies, hunting and traveling. Her husband, Louis Bobo started Stock Car Racing in 1962 and the whole family got the dirt track racing fever. Back in those early days of racing, women were not allowed in the pits much less see them racing cars, but that never stopped Charlette. The story was told that she and two other women were wanting to race and there was not enough women drivers to have a powder puff race. She walked out on the track as her husband and the other drivers were getting ready to start their race. She made her husband Louis, get out of his car and she drove against the other men in his place. She ended up winning the race against the men. All of the drivers told her husband Louis not to ever give up his car to her again. They didn't like losing to a woman. Charlette's powder puff wins were to numerous to count and she raced for many years. She was always one of the women to beat. She was the world's biggest fan when it came to her husband and family and Stock Car racing. On any given night you would be able to pick her out of the crowd, she would have her arms raised above her head and you could hear her cheering for her husband, sons, and even her grandson, over the roar of the racing engines and across a quarter mile track.
Charlette and Louis also traveled all over the country competing in Demolition Derbies. One of the biggest arenas that they both competed in was The Annual Thrill Show and Demolition Derby in the Houston Astro Dome, in Houston, TX. This was an annual two day, invitation only, Demolition Derby race. They both competed with top drivers in the Demolition Derby racing world. You could always count on them being major contenders.
Charlette was an avid deer hunter. She was known for bagging some of the biggest bucks in the woods. On one of her epic hunts, she was able to bag herself a record deer. It took her unloading one rifle and a shot gun but she was able to harvest a ten point buck, she named "Moe". The buck was so big that it broke the scales at over three hundred pounds. The taxidermist could not find a mount big enough for the deer's hide, so he had to end up cutting a section of the hide out in order to fit it to the mount.
Charlette loved to travel. She and her sister Wanda were traveling companions. They have been to every state in the United States except Vermont and Hawaii. They have taken several cruises, one of which was a cruise through the Panama Canal. They also took a train trip across the Canadian Rockies, and a cruise up the coast of Alaska. Just this year, they had finished a cruise to the Eastern Islands of the Caribbean and were looking forward to booking another cruise to the Western Islands soon.
Charlette also had a heart for helping the people in need around her. She did many things to serve her fellow man. In her younger years, Charlette was a substitute teacher at Fuller Elementary. She volunteered with the Boy and Girl Scouts for many years, as Girl Scout troop leader and a Cub Scout Den mother. She was a member of Pine Grove Baptist Church. She was always active and loved her church family. She served with Women on Mission, Vacation Bible School, Church Camp and working on the kitchen fellowship committee. For many years, she also led the Friends and Caregivers group for the Veterans at the VA Daycare. Between the years of 1997 until 2003 she volunteered with Care Link and the "Meals on Wheels" program. She also was caregiver to the late Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Killingworth, and long time friend and family pastor, the late, Edward Edmondson. After Charlette's husband Louis broke his hip and was confined to a nursing home with Alzheimer, you could almost always find Charlette at the nursing home. She would be watching after Louis, and all of the other residents of the nursing home. She was always in the middle of things trying to make sure that the residents had fun and companionship. She was always having Pop Corn or Ice Cream socials, she called the numbers at the weekly Bingo games, helped to serve at monthly Birthday parties and help with the planning of events and holiday parties.
Charlette also loved children and they were always drawn to her. She worked for several years at the Heritage Childcare Center in Sherwood, Arkansas. She was known and loved by all of the little children as "Bobo". No matter how many children she might come in contact with in any given day, she made sure that each child knew that their "Bobo" loved them. To this day, she still receives Birthday and Christmas cards from some of the children that she cared for at the daycare center, who are now adults, with children of their own. In the later years she would dress up in her clown suit and she would visit the children at the Baptist Hospital Daycare center, as "Bobo the Clown". They all still love her and know her even when she comes to see them without her costume on.
And last but not at all least Charlette was a die-hard Arkansas Razorback fan. Good years, bad years, it didn't matter to her. You could find her every Saturday, rooting for her Hogs. You would know it, if you drove by her house with the six foot blow-up Razorback football player in the front yard and the game blaring from the house. She would be decked out in her "Red and White" and would be calling them hogs right along with the TV screen. If the Razorbacks were able to receive a bowl bid, you can bet she was going to be there rooting her beloved Razorbacks win or lose, it didn't matter.

Charlette Bobo, 75, of Little Rock went to be with the Lord on Monday, August 26, 2013. She was born on September 11, 1937. Charlette was a member of Pine Grove Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Charles D. and Ethel Tackett-Harrison, and a daughter, Diane Bobo Walker and one brother, Henry Tackett.
Charlette is survived by her husband of 59 years, Louis Bobo of Little Rock, two daughters, Cathy Bobo of Little Rock, Janice Stivers (Ricky) of North Little Rock, two sons, Doug Bobo (Anita) and Allen Bobo of Little Rock, two brothers, Charles Tackett, (Marilyn) of East End and Curtis Tackett, (Catherine) of Little Rock, two sisters, Dorothy Caddy (Curtis) of Leola and Wanda Harrison of Pine Bluff and sister in law Myra Tackett, seven grandchildren, Carla, Angie, Rachae, Timmy, Jonathon, Miracle, Ricky and four great grand children..
God blessed us all to be able to share Momma Bobo with him for the last 75 years and we are truly thankful for the time that we had with her, but somehow Lord, it just didn't seem to be long enough.
Visitation will be Friday, August 30, 6:00 - 8:00 PM at Dial and Dudley Funeral Home, 4212 Highway 5 N, Bryant, Arkansas.
Service on Saturday, August 31, 10:00 AM at the Funeral Home. To sign online guestbook visit www.dialdudleyfuneralhome.com