Robert Marshbanks

Visitation Thursday, January 31, 2013 5:30-9pm SFH Chapel
Memorial Friday, February 1, 2013 1pm SFH Chapel
Interment Danville Memorial Gardens
Age 82

Robert Lee "Bob" Marshbanks, 82, passed away Tuesday, January 29, 2013, at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center in Danville, KY. He was born August 12, 1930 at Paint Lick, KY to the late Burdette and Geneva Norman Marshbanks and was the widower of Lyda Belle House Marshbanks. Bob has delivered milk for Swiss Sanitary Dairy Products and he had been a milk distributor for Southern Bell Dairy. He was owner operator of the Stanford Convenient Store from June 1979 to 2005, he also was the owner of the Liberty Convenient Store from 1984 to 1994, this business is currently Circle K. He was a member of the New Beginnings United Methodist Church in Stanford, KY.


Survivors include his wife, Virginia "Gin" Marshbanks of Stanford, KY; a son, Marvin Marshbanks (Rhonda) of Stanford, KY; a Step-daughter, Sherry Harden Stanley (Henry) of Orlando, FL; 2 sisters, Wanda Long of Harrodsburg, KY and Kathleen Preston of Lancaster, KY; 4 grandchildren, Dr. Matthew Marshbanks (Melissa), Amanda Marshbanks, Bridgette Withrow Lynn (Danny) and Ty Withrow (Lauren); 6 step-grandchildren, Melissa Stanley, Kevin and Kasey Stanley, AKennedy Harden, Bailey Harden and Brianna Harden; 4 great-grandchildren, Addison Claire Marshbanks, Grant Matthew Marshbanks, Ally Lynn and Tinley Lynn; he was preceded in death by a daughter, Martha Jo Marshbanks Withrow, a step son, Brian Harden, a brother, Gilbert Marshbanks and 2 sisters, Edna and Helen Marshbanks.


Visitation will be Thursday, January 31, 2013, from 5:30-9 at Spurlin Funeral Home Stanford, funeral services will be 1 pm, Friday, February 1, 2013, at Spurlin Funeral Home. Reverends Stewart Dawson and William Herndon will be officiating the service. Burial will be in Danville Memorial Gardens.


Casketbearers will be Dr. Matt Marshbanks, Donnie Bailey, Ernest Hensley, Jr., Dr. John Mark Gooch, Roger Meek, Bobby Baker, Mike Bastin and Donald Adams.


Memorials in lieu of flowers may be given to the American Heart Association, Kentucky Region, 333 Guthrie Street, Suite 207, Louisville, KY 40202 and or the Ft. Logan Cooperative Ministries, 302 Church Street, Stanford, KY 40484.