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ROBERT DAVID "BOB" FATHERREE

McAllen, Texas

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ROBERT DAVID "BOB" FATHERREE EDINBURG - To the backdrop of fireworks, Bob left our midst on July 4, 2013. He had the mind of a machine and the heart of an artist. There is no room in these words to express our sorrow - no space in these margins to contain his love's reach. Bob was preceded in...

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Carol, July 4 th. rolls around ! Bill and I have been thinking about you! We have moved away from the Valley up to Georgetown for almost 3 years!! Hope this anniversary brings you greater peace, because you and Bob lives in our heart!!! Love, Amy & Bill Rubink

How can it be 10 years? So often it feels like only 10 minutes. My only hope and wish is that sometime, somewhere, somehow we WILL be together again.

The spirit of you is always with us, and sometimes it is that remembrance that gives us the courage to continue to continue. You are so missed.

Can´t believe another year has gone by without you. You are not here, but my love for you is undiminished.

Another year. And yet I am still breathing. Unbelievable. I learned long ago, with Bob, love is the glue that binds the universe.

I love you, Carol, and I can't believe Bob has been gone eight years now. He would not have believed the events of this past year, or he would have used them as fodder for a tremendous Rod Serling-esque story or three. As Sam Wheat tells Molly Jensen in Ghost, "It's amazing; you take it with you." I'd like to believe that idea about love is true; I KNOW it is for you and Bob.

How can 7 years feel like 7 minutes? I have no words. But this I know, love doesn't ever die.

Bob was one of the two very smartest people I have ever known. He was also a brilliantly gifted actor. He had that incredible ability to hold your attention and make you feel deeply while seemingly doing nothing. He was my candidate for best actor at PAU in the 1970's. And for me he is one of the top actors I have ever seen perform live anywhere. What is most extraordinary is that with all this brilliance (and I was not the only one to think him brilliant onstage or as a writer or as a...

Seven years have passed and some of our friends have gone to join you. You are so missed in this place of "wrath and tears", and "the menace of the years" is finding some of us very afraid of what life has become in the days of Covid-19, the plague. I often find myself wondering what you would have thought about what is now happening in our beloved country. But perhaps, it is better that you did not live to have to see what we've all come to. The irony of it is that you passed away on...