Extracted from The Austin American-Statesman (Austin, TX)
Friday, September 23, 1977

DOBIE, William J. (Bill), 54, 1600 Colony Creek, died Wednesday. Services 2 p.m. Friday at Cook-Walden Funeral Home. Survivors: wife, Irene Dobie of Austin; son, William Jerald Dobie of Beaumont; daughter, Sharon Russell of Beaumont; mother, Mrs. Lewis T. Dobie of Austin; brothers, Joe K. Dobie Sr., Lewis T. Dobie Jr., both of Austin; sister, Eunice D. Watson of Austin; two grandchildren.