My father, Gordon Hoobler ('Gordy') passed away on May 11, 2008. 

Gordon began racing in 1976, making it from driver's school to qualifying for the National Runoffs at Road Atlanta in the same year.  He continued to race his various DSRs until 1988, though he remained active for a while as a course worker and then passed the torch to me to race for several years one of the local racing school's amateur series. 

He loved his friends and comrades at the track, including Bob Fox, Chuck Koske, Terry Visger, Charlie Kuhn, Paul Decker, the Chamberlain family, and many others.  Most of all he was a wonderful and loving father and is missed very much.