OXFORD - Robert “Bob” Elmer Rector a resident of Oxford, died Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. Funeral services were Monday, Dec. 15, at 2 p.m. in the Gentry-Newell & Vaughan Funeral chapel in Oxford, with the Rev. Gene Brooks and the Rev. Terry Howard officiating. Burial will be in Douglas, Tex.

He was a native of Zionsville, Ind., and was the son of the late Elmer Virgil and Lera Wilson Rector He was a professor of American history and government at Louisburg College, where he taught for over 36 years.

Surviving: wife, Nancy Lamp Rector; a daughter, Amanda Elizabeth Rector of Oxford; three sons, Robert Rector, Jr. of Creedmoor, Andrew Jackson Rector and Jeb Stuart Rector, both of Oxford; two brothers, Baker Rector of Dallas, Texas, and Virgil Rector of Commerce, Texas. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Granville County Republican Party, Oxford, NC 27565 or to the Douglas Baptist Church, Douglas, Texas.