August 15, 2011
August 15, 2011
happy birthday charlie. We miss you so much. Our lives will never be the same without you.
This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, Charles Walker Bellows, 57 years old, born on August 15, 1952, and passed away on April 12, 2010. We will remember him forever.
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April 16, 2011
April 16, 2011
When you first met me you had wondered for years if there "really" was a person named "Hinky" you heard of me but never met me..We finally met and now you've left us! Here's a candle lit in your memory You will be missed!...Lanny & Hinky Wilcher
April 12, 2011
April 12, 2011
Miss you friend!
April 12, 2011
April 12, 2011
It's hard to believe it has been a year since you left. Few days pass that I don't think of you and the time we spent together. I know you had a lot of friends and I'm thankful I got to be one of them for awhile. You're missed by so many and will b
April 12, 2011
April 12, 2011
Charlie, I wish I would have gotten to know you better. You were a very kind person and I miss you being with us on our riding adventures.
April 12, 2011
April 12, 2011
Charlie you are missed. We love you.
Ryan Jessie Riley Finley
Ryan Jessie Riley Finley
April 12, 2011
April 12, 2011
We miss you so much! Fran and Owen
April 12, 2011
April 12, 2011
A year has now come and gone and life without you is no longer the same. You have been missed beyond words by me, your family all your friends and even people that have only come to know you since your death. I will love you forever Darlene
May 19, 2010
May 19, 2010
We were not through knowing you! We miss you dearly. You were more than a friend, you were my brother. I still miss you. Take care of that skunk for us!
April 18, 2010
April 18, 2010
Charlie you were a riding buddy whom I will always miss.
You have left a hole that no one else can fill. You will always be remembered
You have left a hole that no one else can fill. You will always be remembered
April 16, 2010
April 16, 2010
You came into our lives not long ago, but you will be in our memory forever. I can see you in my minds eye with your arms crossed holding your pipe, with that little smirk on your face. Will miss you!
April 15, 2010
April 15, 2010
Charlie was such a quiet man...but loved by many!
April 15, 2010
April 15, 2010
BAX & VELVET WALKER LIT A CANDLE ON 15TH APRIL 2010 "WE DIDN'T KNOW YOU AS CLOSE AS THE OTHERS, BUT YOU WERE A BROTHER TO US. MY YOU REST IN GOD'S ARMS . LOVE BAX & VELVET
April 14, 2010
April 14, 2010
Forever in my heart and always in my memory
Your loving wife Darlene
Your loving wife Darlene
April 14, 2010
April 14, 2010
Charlie,you will be greatly missed. Loved riding with you and Darlene. Such a great man. Joanne
April 14, 2010
April 14, 2010
I love you Charlie. I will miss you.
April 14, 2010
April 14, 2010
Steve and Geneva Morrow will miss you at Chapter V Goldwing meetings. Hope you are having fun riding on streets of Gold.
April 14, 2010
April 14, 2010
Charlie, Thanks for your friendship thru the years and all the memories. You will be missed and always remembered. Too soon my friend, too soon.
With Love, Mike West
With Love, Mike West
April 14, 2010
April 14, 2010
Charlie,you are a forever friend. You will always be in my memory and you certainly will be missed.
With love,
Jody
With love,
Jody
April 14, 2010
April 14, 2010
Charlie and I always had a laugh when he came in for a haircut. I looked forward to my visits with Charlie as we would discuss motorcycle and convertible routes to drive and see the beauty around us.
April 14, 2010
April 14, 2010
Charlie, We will miss you dearly, thanks for all the great rides we had. As a riding Buddy and friend you were the best.
Bob
Bob
April 14, 2010
April 14, 2010
Your friendship will be missed. Thanks for the prank you pulled Saturday at the trike races.
April 14, 2010
April 14, 2010
Charlie wyou will be missed Thank you for being a wonderful father to me.
April 14, 2010
April 14, 2010
Always quick with a smile and a laugh. Charlie was a man that didn't say a lot but when he spoke you knew what he had to say would be worth hearing. He will be greatly missed by us all.
April 14, 2010
April 14, 2010
A loving father, grandfather and husband, much admired and respected by me.... You will be deeply missed.
Jan Finley
Jan Finley
April 14, 2010
April 14, 2010
I will miss you dearly Charlie-always!!!!
With Love,
Lisa
With Love,
Lisa
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August 15, 2011
August 15, 2011
happy birthday charlie. We miss you so much. Our lives will never be the same without you.
April 16, 2011
April 16, 2011
When you first met me you had wondered for years if there "really" was a person named "Hinky" you heard of me but never met me..We finally met and now you've left us! Here's a candle lit in your memory You will be missed!...Lanny & Hinky Wilcher
April 12, 2011
April 12, 2011
Miss you friend!
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Remembering you
April 12, 2011
by Fran Bellows
You will always be in my heart Charlie. Little Owen is growing up so fast. I wish you were here to see him. He misses you so much. When he sees your picture he says "Papa". Breaks my heart every time. It's hard for me to look at pictures with you and Owen because I know what a wonderful person he is missing in his life. Our lives have changed so much since you have been gone. Some bad and some good. We miss you and we wish you were still here...... but we KNOW you are happier where you are.
Love,
Fran and Owen
April 18, 2010
He now rides higher than angels fly
On streets of gold with angels at his side
A husband, a son, a brother and biker true
Only the good die young and he died too soon
He lives in the memory of those he loved
He rides with us now from up above
Blessed be the name of the Lord
When He calls a brother home for his reward
With folded hands and on bended knees we pray
Next to crystal seas we'll ride with Charlie again one day
until then watch over us as we ride til time for us to come home too.
April 14, 2010
My Charlie Story
In 1981 I was at a very hard turning point in my life, my marriage of 10 years was ending, I had two children I needed to take care of and a new chapter in my life to begin. I didn’t know what God had in store at that time for me but the direction he took my life lead to one of total happiness, fulfillment, full of love, laughter and a very precious relationship.
The new chapter in my life started in August, 1981 with taking a job at the radio station in Athens, TN where a DJ named Stephen Pell worked. Steve and I became instant friends not knowing at that time that our lives would ever be intertwined for the rest of our lives.
On that day that same day in August, 1981, Charlie, Steve, and the rest of the Bellows family faced a very dark day when Charlie and his first wife Joanne were involved in an auto accident that resulted in the loss of Joanne’s life, leaving Charlie to raise to their newborn son alone.
I didn’t know the Bellows at that time, but through and with Steve I grieved for their loss.
In January, 1982, Steve decided to play match maker and arranged somewhat of a blind date for Charlie and I. That date was the beginning of 28 years full of tears, happiness, more love than one could image, laughter, hard times and great times.
Charlie and I were married in 1983, and started our life with my two boys and his baby son who I had come to love and adore as my own.
There were times that God was at the center of our lives and there were times that the world was the center of our lives, but looking back now the years that God was the center were the happiness and most blessed years.
In recent years Charlie and I decided that while we had a great life together and were truly blessed, we were not praising the Lord that had provided that life for us in the way we should. There were things going on in our family that was very hard and painful for all of us to deal with and we felt so unequipped to deal with it.
It was at that time that the book the Purpose Driven Life came out and our wonderful neighbors across the street invited us to be a part of a small group at their house to study this book and it’s meaning with them. Those meetings and that book forever changed Charlies and my life. We realized that with our totally turning our lives over to Jesus Christ and not just when crisis hit was what we needed to do and we did as a couple.
While Charlie was quiet about his faith and his relationship with Jesus Christ, he none the less had a very deep faith and relationship with him and I have. A relationship that in the past few years has grown stronger and stronger as we have witnessed God working in our lives in so many ways. We placed our total faith in him and opened our own business and HE blessed that business more that I can begin to tell you.
The trials in our family didn’t go away, but through daily devotions and a great deal of time spent on our knees we saw more answers to prayers that I can describe.
I am telling all of you that are gathered here to night as we celebrate his life so that you can know that I have the peace and confidence that Charlie is now with the Jesus Christ that he believed in and love even though he might now have shared it with many of you
I firmly believed that out of the dark times that Charlie and I both were experiencing in August, 1981, God took our lives, joined them and made something beautiful. I believe that our meeting and joining our lives at that time was at the hands of God and it a perfect example how God works during the dark hard times in our lives to bring out the sun again.
While I am so grief stricken, scared, feel totally lost without my soul mate, I know that my life is in God’s hands and he will bring sunshine back into my life in a way that I can’t imagine. He has already shown me in just the the few days since He took Charlie home how much I have to be thankful for and how many wonderful people I have in my life and how much others loved Charlie like I did.
Words can not express how much I appreciate each and every little thing that each of you has done since Monday and pray that it your friendship will continue in the dark days I face ahead until the Sun shines again in my life. Charlie having been through the loss of a dear loved one always told me that you find out who your true friends are in the times following the loss.