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This week’s Hometown History is a glimpse at one of Crestview’s most colorful and resourceful politicians, Robert Lee Fulton Sikes, who died Sept. 28, 1994, and whose name graces local public facilities including the airport, the public library, an elementary school, a road in east Crestview, and the local campus of Northwest Florida State College.
U.S. Rep. Bob Sikes, left, greets supporters and friends during a 1964 Florida State University ceremony honoring him for his then 23 years of service in Congress.
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