Chaplain's Corner
Dear Fellow Members 44th Engineer Battalion Association;
44th Engineer Battalion Association
Fall News Message 2025
Greetings!
Hopefully this message finds you all in the best of health doing this beautiful end of summer days. If you missed it we had a blessed reunion in Saint Roberts, Missouri. The food was great and the fellowship was outstanding, our speaker was the mayor from the great city of Waynesville, Missouri.
We had the opportunity to do a memorial service for one of our member’s wife that passed this year. Mrs. Doris Arlene Jobe the wife of LTC Kenneth D. Jobe the past 44th Engineer Battalion Commander passed in April 2025. According to the President Col. Jobe and Ms. Doris use to always drive their Chevy Corvette to the reunions. She was born in 1937 in Illinois, passed away peacefully surrounded by family. Doris was the daughter of James Aud Rogers and Ola Mae Rogers and one of nine children. She lived a life of love and devotion and duty to her family. In 1957, Doris married Kenneth Dale Jobe, after the two met in high school and while they were attending college. She was a graduate of Southern Illinois University and enjoyed cheerleading at Missouri School of Mines. As an Army Officer's wife for 21 years, she created a home wherever they were stationed, from Oklahoma to Kansas City to San Francisco to Wyoming to Virginia. They settled in Virginia Beach in 1983. Please keep Col. Jobe, family and friends in your prayers.
Please also keep Ron Powell and family in your prayers as he lost his mother shortly after we completed the reunion in September. It is during these times that a family needs our support.
John 14:1
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
John 5:24-25
“Very truly I tell you
u; whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life”
Bishop DR. Johnny L. Hicks
Chaplain
44th Engineer Battalion Association
- On Thursday evening 09/11 we had a memorial service for the attack on our freedoms on 9/11/01 and to honor those who lost their lives and others who suffered injuries. Many members came forward and gave testimony about that day.
Obituaries
We did not have any members reported to us but Colonel Jobe's spouse Doris passed away this past April. Lt. Col Kenneth Jobe was Battalion Commander of the 44th around 1978. We the brothers and sisters of the 44th offer him and his family our deepest sympathies.