Robert Edward Bowers

ROBERT LEAD A HARD, MEAN AND UNCONTROLLED LIFE AS HE GREW TO BE A MAN. HE MARRIED JANIE WILSON BOWERS AND THE HAVE ONE SON, WILLIAM SAMIEL DERRICK BOWERS. ROBERT LOVED BEING A FATHER AND WAS VERY GOOD AT IT. HE AND HIS WIFE JANIE WAS NOT COMPATIBLE. THEY DIVORCED AND WILLIAM WAS AWARDED TO THE FATHER. ONCE ONE A DAY VISIT BY HIS MOM, SHE JUMPED ON A PLANE WITH THE CHILD AND WENT TO ALABAMA. ROBERT SEARCHED FOR HIM BUT COULD NOT FIND HIM. ONE DAY HE RECIEVED A CALL THAT IF HE WANTED HIS CHILD IT WOULD COST HIM. ROBERT HAD IS ON BUSINESS CALLED BOWERS AUTOMOTIVE AND ROBERT SOLD EVERYTHING HE OWNED TO RAISE $10,000,00 TO PAY TO GET HIS SON BACK. ROBERT DID GET HIS SON BACK AND JANIE, THE MOM NEVER SAW HIM ALONE AGAIN. ROBERT AND I MET ABOUT 11 MONTHS AFTER MY HUSBAND DIED, WE JOINED OUR FAMILIES AND HAD MANY WONDERFUL TIMES AND HE WAS THE FATHER FIGURE IN THEIR LIVES AND I BECAME THE MOTHER FIGURE FOR WILLIAM. WE WERE VERY CLOSE TO OUR BOYS AND THEIR FRIENDS AND STAYED INVOLVED WITH THEM, TEACHING THEM TO RESPECT THEIR ELDERS AND DOING THE RIGHT THINGS. ROBERT AND I HAD HARD CHILDHOOD AND WANTED MUCH BETTER CHILDHOODS FOR OUR BOYS.  I COULD GO ON AND ON BUT THERE IS NO NEED TO. ROBERT HAD 2 BACK SURGERIES AND GASTRIC BYPASS AND HE WAS IN TERRIBLE PAIN FOR MANY YEARS. HE LOVE HIS 2 GRANDSONS, STEPHEN AND JORDAN AND THE LOVED HIM DEARLY. ROBERT PASSED IN 2007 BEFORE WILLIAM AND ERIN HAD A SON BORN IN 2008 AND THEY NAME THE BABY ROBERT EDWARD BOWERS II.  WHAT HURTS THE MOST IS I AM NOT INCLUDED IN THE CHILDS LIFE. I WAS THERE WHEN HE WAS BORN AND THE LAST ONE TO HOLD MY GRANDCHILD. IT HURTS ME SO MUCH BUT I FEEL ERIN IS THE REASON BECAUSE WILLIAM DOESN'T ACT ANY DIFFERENT. I PRAY THAT WILL CHANGE AND I CAN BE A GRANDMOTHER TO MY GRANDSON.