Robert Allen Jenkins

Robert Jenkins ObituaryObituary published on Legacy.com by Harness Funeral Home on Mar. 16, 2026.Funeral services for Robert Allen "Bob" Jenkins, 96, will be held Saturday, March 28, 2026, at 11 a.m. at the Harness Funeral Home Chapel with Allard Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Willow Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be held at the funeral home chapel on Friday, March 27, from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Donations in Robert's name may be made to The Church Of God Tabernacle Fund at PO Box 450 Charleston, TN 37310. Online condolences may be made at www.harnessfuneralhome.com.Robert "Bob" Jenkins went to be with the Lord on March 12, 2026.Bob was born on August 31, 1929, at a private residence in Buffalo, Wyoming to Marshall DeWitt Jenkins and Sylvia June Allen Jenkins; the fifth of eight children. He grew up in Antelope Basin about fifteen miles north of Kaycee and attended country school a mile from their home. Usually walking to school, sometimes riding a horse. He was a member of the Tip Top Feeders 4-H Club for ten years. Bob enjoyed being outside and working with cattle and horses, helping his dad on the family ranch. He was a great judge of animals and won many grand champion ribbons and blue ribbons for his livestock. He figured if an animal had four legs it was meant to be ridden whether it was riding the bull to the water tank or breaking horses, which he loved to do.As a kid, Bob was always building small playhouses; one for him and his sister, June, which was a two-story playhouse and a one-story playhouse for his sisters, Nora and Norma. The houses were extremely small. The entrance was made of a cupboard door, and the kids had to crawl into the hut and scrunch themselves up. When his dad, Marshall, needed wood and tin to build or repair sheds for the cattle, the playhouses came down.As a kid riding horses with his sister, Polly, she told him of his need to accept Jesus as his Savior. It was years before he did.He enjoyed going to Montana in the 1940's and worked in the clay mines with his brother-in-law, Buzz Lee. Bob had an Indian motorcycle; he rode it to Rapid City, South Dakota to visit family when his niece, Susan Oltion, was born in 1949.Bob married Jeanne Audette Koch on July 22, 1950, in Rapid City, South Dakota. They lived in the Antelope Basin area for several years. He worked on ranches in Montana and northeastern Wyoming. Bob was in law enforcement in Buffalo and Greybull in the mid to late 1950's. In his spare time while living in Greybull, he worked for O. F. Shroyer & Sons as a carpenter.In his younger years, Bob had countless ear infections, and his parents spent hours rocking the sick boy. After he was a grown man, he went to a specialist in Billings who told him that when the infection ever eats through the mastoid bone to his brain, it would be detrimental. In 1963, Bob, Jeanne, and Connie traveled to the General Assembly in Cleveland, Tennessee. Bob went through the healing line and they prayed for him. Upon returning home, he went to the Billings doctor who said he could see the scar where the infection had been, but it was not active anymore. God healed his infection and he lived to the age of 96!Bob and Jeanne were invited to attend a revival by the Shroyer's in Greybull, and they gave their hearts to the Lord. That stirred a hungering and thirsting for more of God and Bob settled down. They bought the ranch along Crazy Woman Creek in March 1962 and sold it in July 1964. At that time, they moved to Sheridan and lived by Big Goose Creek. Bob worked in the sawmill and gained fame as a saw blade sharpener. Bob would tell you that there was a lot more to that job as he learned how to hammer the saws. He felt God helped him learn the trade and his boss did not want to lose him when he left.After living in Idaho for two years, they moved back to Buffalo where being an exceptional carpenter, Bob remodeled older homes and built many new homes. His work was highly sought after. Bob helped build churches in Buffalo, Wyoming; Bethel, Alaska; and Kalispell, Montana.He enjoyed hunting and fishing and teaching his children the wonders of the great outdoors. His greatest prayer and passion in life was for all those he loved to know Jesus Christ as their Savior. Bob was very proud of his five children.Survivors include four children, Connie Peter and husband Fred of Bethel Alaska; Cathy Hendricks and husband David of Mission, Texas; Glen Jenkins of Buffalo; Wayne Jenkins and wife Rhonda of Sheridan; one daughter-in-law, Val Jorgenson of Missoula, Montana; two sisters, June Taylor of Buffalo and Norma Closson of Casper; 19 grandchildren, 42 great-grandchildren and 4 great-great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.He was preceded in death by his parents, Marshall and Sylvia Jenkins; his wife, Jeanne; one son, David; one brother, Forrest Jenkins; and four sisters, Louise Ridley, Polly Oltion, Vida Jenkins and Nora Cellers.To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.