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Bob Thompson had several careers in his lifetime and was successful at each of them. He was a high school business and accounting teacher, lay minister, drive-in church pastor and florist and made deep and lasting friendships along the way.
Robert Foy Thompson, a Winter Garden native, died Nov. 17, 2020, at age 85, leaving behind a wife of 53 years and multiple generations of students and teachers who always remembered his kindness, trustworthiness and passion for business.
Thompson had graduated from Florida Southern College with a degree in business and had two years of teaching under his belt when he took a position with Orange County Public Schools and taught English, keyboarding, accounting and other businesses classes at Lakeview High School, in Winter Garden.