COLUMBIA, Mo. – Former Speaker of the Missouri Residence of Reps, Bob F. Griffin, 85, of Columbia, Missouri, handed away July 7, 2021, at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia.
Bob was born Aug. 15, 1935, in Braymer, Missouri, the son of Ben Franklin and Mildred (Cowan) Griffin. He was educated in the Braymer and Breckenridge Elementary Colleges and graduated from Cameron Significant University in 1953. Bob arrived from really humble beginnings and usually reminisced about his 1st task as a younger lad was manually location up bowling pins at the community bowling alley.
Bob attended college or university at Mizzou. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration (1957) and a Health practitioner of Jurisprudence diploma in legislation (1959) from the College of Missouri at Columbia. On Aug. 18, 1957, he married the love (and golfing lover) of his daily life, Linda Charlotte Kemper of Cameron.
Upon graduation