Robert Leo Haley, Jr., age 87, passed away Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023, at his home in Nashville.
Bob was born July 8, 1935, in Elkton, KY, to Robert Leo Haley and Carolyn Ramsey Haley. His sister, Marilyn (Bryan) Blount, passed away in 2011. He is survived by his wife, Joy Bell Haley; sons, Paul (Shelley) Haley, John Haley, and Robert Haley III and grandchildren, Sheridan and Davis Haley.
Bob attended Elkton High School, graduated Columbia Military Academy in 1953, Vanderbilt University in 1957, and Vanderbilt Medical School in 1960. He completed a rotating internship at University Hospital in Augusta, GA, and radiology residency and assistant staff at Vanderbilt 1963-67. A founding partner of Hill Radiology, he practiced radiology in middle Tennessee at Memorial, Donelson, and Summit Hospitals, and Tennessee Christian Medical Center from 1967 until 1997. He served as a Captain in the United States Army from 1961 through 1963 at Fort Rucker in Alabama.
He attended Belmont Heights Baptist Church from the 1960s until 2012, serving as a deacon where he worked in visitation, service to the elderly, and administrative matters. Thereafter as a member of Forest Hills Baptist Church he participated especially in the prayer ministry.
Bob expressed he was “humbled by parents Leo and Carolyn who taught me discipline and hard work and who sacrificed for me to attend Columbia Military Academy, Vanderbilt University and then medical school; humbled by my wife, Joy who chose me, had our children and cared for us in all ways possible; and forever humbled by my Lord who knew me before my birth, who loved me, thankful that my Lord would submit to the severe punishment due me and shed His precious blood for me, an unworthy and sinful man.” The family observed that humility and his gentle, wry, and self-aware sense of humor, until his last day with us, for a while, until the Lord Jesus returns.
The family welcomes you to visitation at Forest Hills Baptist Church, 2101 Old Hickory Boulevard, Nashville, TN, from 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Monday, April 17, to be followed at 1:00 p.m. by service of the Word, testimony, and song. You are welcome, especially family and friends in Kentucky, to graveside at Edgewood Cemetery, Trenton, KY, at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday the 18th.
Arrangements are entrusted to Neal-Tarpley-Parchman.
You may make memorial gifts to Forest Hills Baptist Church, the Edgewood Cemetery Fund, P.O. Box 72, Trenton, KY 42286, or to a place you choose.