On August 14, 2009, ROBERT FENTON THORNTON, SR., beloved husband of the late Gladys L. Thornton (nee Pumphrey); devoted father of Carole Lillian Sachs and her husband William, Robert Fenton Thornton Jr. and his wife Mary and Laurel Lynne Perkins and her husband Roy; loving grandfather of Lisa A Sachs-Thompson, Eric W. Sachs, Robert F. Thornton III, Michael E. Thornton, David D. Thornton, Derek M. Bobovsky, Roy Lee Perkins, Michael and Richard Cowan and the late Ashley Marie Bobovsky; great-grand-father of Ryan, Sarah and Daniel Thompson, Jessica Sachs, Ashley Marie, Jay and Alexis Bobovsky, Abigail Laura Thornton, Haley and Eric Cowan and Emily
vanUittenbroek.


Funeral service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue, on Wednesday at 10 A.M. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery. Friends may call on Tuesday 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M.