Mr. Robert Dayton West, age 84, of Alexandria, TN passed peacefully from this life March 4th, 2025.
Robert (Bob) was born November 2, 1940, to A.D. West and Marie Jane Walker West in Clay County, West Virginia. In 1962 Robert married the love of his life Mable Jean Mullins and together took on life. They had many adventures together starting in Cleveland, Ohio where Bob was a steel worker and auto mechanic. Later they moved their family to West Virginia where Bob worked driving trucks for coal mines.
Eventually Bob moved the family to Smithville, TN where Bob put himself through school to become a successful certified electrician at DuPont in Old Hickory, TN. Bob and Mable had 5 children, Rosetta, Wanda, Albert, and the twins Frank and Charlotte. Bob is also survived by a sister Virginia Ferrebee.
Bob enjoyed fishing, hunting, traveling the United States, and working on various vehicles with his sons.
Bob was preceded in death by his Parents, A.D. West and Marie West, his wife Mable, and youngest daughter Charlotte, sister Emma Pearl Brown.
He was a member of Snow Hill Baptist Church and was a born-again Christian. He will always be remembered as a strong working man who loved and provided for his family as well as anyone else he could help.
A graveside service will be held at the Hillview Memorial Cemetery at 2pm March 7th, 2025, where he will be laid to rest beside his wife Mable and his daughter Charlotte, with Rev. Dennis Croslin presiding.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers all contributions be left for Robert West to Avant Funeral Home, 109 High Street, Alexandria, TN, 37012 to cover funeral expenses.