William Benjamin Bobo, who went by Ben, grew up in Indiana and served in the military before moving to San Francisco in the 1970s, where he owned a furnishings business in the Design District that sold “all the finer things,” according to his niece Susan Bobo, who received $100,000 in the will.
“He was debonair,” Susan said. “Class A.”
She’s circumspect about the Parks Department’s plan: While her uncle was “meticulous when it came to making sure things were taken care of in the way that he wanted them to be,” she said, supporting a literal reading of the will, “the betterment of any park would be something he would want, too.”
