Bob & I were little kid's when we lost our parents. I was 9 1/2 when we lost our mother from cancer and Bob was 8. It was a very hard thing to understand as children that our mom was gone and never coming back home. Then only 2 1/2 years later our father was tragically killed in a horrible car wreck on his way home from work. We were staying with our mom's sister Bonnie and her husband Terry for a 2 weeks summer vacation at the time this happened. I went to our dad's funeral with Bonnie. Bob didn't want to go. He had a hard time with accepting the loss of our parents so close together. I did too, but I was 19 months older then Bob was. I remember our dad's mother(our grandma Phillips) took us kid's to the Carthage hospital to see our mom and they told us to come back the next day because she was sleeping. Bob went searching for her room and as he peeked through the door he saw them cover our mom's face with a sheet as she'd just passed away. Grandma Phillips took us back home. Our grandpa Phillips was drunk and because we were crying for our mom he called us dirty names and Grandma Phillips stood up for us and told him to be quiet that we had just lost our mother. Long story short Bob & I continued to live with Bonnie & Terry. It wasn't a good situation there at all. We were both abused and mistreated. When I got old enough to get married at the age of 17 I was out of there. Bob stayed a little while longer, but the abuse only got worse for him so he went to live with our Grandma Phillips and so did I up until I got married to my husband John. Bob & I had a very strong bond because of everything that we went through as kid's losing our parents and being abused by family who was supposed to love and protect us and didn't. In spite of all that we endured we both turned out pretty darned good. I've been married to my husband John for 42 years and 3 months and Bob was married to Julie for 33 years and 6 day's before passing away from cancer. Losing Bob is the hardest loss of my entire life. But, I thank god for giving him to me for 58 1/2 years. Through the good as well as the bad times between us we never once lost sight of how much we dearly loved one another. It was unconditional and no matter what!!! Like he said to me on the phone it'll always be Margie & Bobby forever and ever! I miss him so much that it hurts. I feel like I've aged 5 years since the day he went to heaven. I keep telling myself that our love for one another and our Awesome memories will never die! I'll always keep Bob in my heart forever and I'll NEVER stop loving him and thinking about him. I had the BEST BROTHER any sister could ever hope to have. He said the same thing to me in one of my birthday cards!:-) I LOVE YOU BOB!!!!!!! XOXO