Bouncing Bob

When our #2 son started to school, my wife said that she either wanted to go back to work as a Home Economics teacher, or have another baby. One of her little nephews stayed with us while his little brother was being born. We enjoyed him so much that we decided on having another baby.

Again, our goal was to have a child born around the middle of March. No. 3 wasn't quite ready by then, so he showed up on Easter Sunday morning, April 9,1950. I don't think he has had another Easter birthday, but is supposed to have one this century. He will miss it by one day this year. We named him after a maternal uncle and grandfather--Robert Harvey. We called him Bob.

Bob was a pleasant little fellow from the beginning! He loved his big brothers! After they went away to college, If one was coming to town, he would tell his friends that he would be busy visiting with them until they left. He liked to climb up in a big tree in the front yard and holler "SHOT" at kids passing by. That was a derogatory remark, and they would look around but couldn't see him in the tree.

Bob loved school and did well! He was popular with the teachers and the girls. He decided to go to New Mexico State University and study electrical engineering. He participated in a satellite tracking program in program in Alaska, Thailand,and Cyprus, being gone up to six months at a time. This paid his way through college.

In between trips he became engaged to a neat young lady, Gayle. Their wedding was scheduled right after the Thailand trip. I met him at the airport in El Paso, and he was sick with mono. I kidded him and said that I would hate to face my fiance and tell her that I had mono (the kissing disease as it was called). At the wedding she was sick, too, and we nearly had to hold them up for the ceremony.

They recovered, Bob graduated, and has had a wonderful career in the electronics field, ending up with a very responsible management position with Scientific Atlanta.

He felt the Lord calling him to ministry, and now he is working for a large church in Atlanta as their financial operations officer.

He is the father of two married daughters and one married son, and now has his first grandson, Parker.

Bob accepted Christ as his saviour as a boy, and has been active in his church ever since!