Marvin Brannon Overby

Bowling has been on my mind today...and magically, our dear Leslie sent this guestbook link to me today, too. The magic in this is you, Marvin! I miss you, and I miss FSU and Crenshaw...and having that wonderful place at my disposal when I needed respite. No wonder you kept going back to it...it just gets in you! I miss your family, too. God Speed my dear friend. Kim

Happy Father's Day '09. Missed you as much as ever. Still love reading all these old posts, makes me smile : ) and cry at the same time.

Happy Birthday, We love you.

My Dearest Daddy Marvin~
How much do I love you... more than words could've ever expressed. You were my safe place and I'm not sure if I ever truly let you know that (or if I fully understood it). When I needed to escape the chaos of the world or was on a high horse and needed to be brought down a few notches - you were the one to bring me back to reality. You taught me so much and are such a huge inspiration in my life. I can honestly say, I've never met anyone like you. Your smile...

The man I knew as Uncle Buddy will be a person who leaves a big hole in my heart. There is not a time that I hear the words Tallahassee, or Florida State that his face doesn't pop in my memory. From my earliest memories I have always felt cherished by my Uncle Buddy. My memories are mostly fun times. I remember one point in his life when he was kinda lonely, and he told me about a cockroach at his house. I asked him if he killed it and he said "NO!! That's Chester!" We teased about that for...

Dad,

I miss you so much. This last month has been like a terrible dream that you can't seem to awaken from. I don't think I want to deal with the fact that you're really gone, even though I know where you are. Your friends and "adopted" kids have been such a blessing to us on this board, and compiled an awesome testimony to the hero that you truly are. This weekend we go to FSU to the memorial that is being held in your honor. I can't wait to go and see everyone but I know it...

My Dearest Marvin,

For four weeks now I have tried to pour my heart out onto a piece of paper and the words just weren’t there. As I lay awake each night a thousand things would flood through my mind and yet I could not capture them long enough to express my heart. There is so much love, joy and grief to sort it all out right now. I know that it will come in time.

There are so many things I treasure that belong only to us and those are the things I am hanging on...

Marvin (Buddy) and I had many good times...I will always cherish the memories...I remember many of the " Do You Remember" statements...I was there for many of them...Playing cowboy's and riding sticks for horses...carving on the china berry tree..Do you remember when I visited we would all sit around after lunch and listen to the "Record Player" as we called it and listen to the song Buddy's Butterfly...And it seems that your Mother was always making vegetable soup and we would just have to...

"Buddy"

Do You Remember These?
Exploring Providence Canyons and the gullies around our house.

The "Rolling Store" and a nickle for candy---you never DID know where I hid mine, did you?

Skiing down the "Sawdust Pile" and surviving several "Wrecks"

Swinging on vines in our "Tarzan Place"---your sock hanging on a twig on the cliff over the pool of water.

Milking our cows everyday and the day the cow got stuck in...