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His Life

1954

November 27, 2014

Trying to remember all the yrs and hoping to get  them right      He was married to his longtime girlfriend  mary  and i believe they were married for 42 yrs. and had eight beautiful kids    Even when the kids were little he would go home and say his famous words pack a bag and away they would go he never had a destination just where ever the car went ... always drove at night when kids were sleeping  other wise he would have heard the words are we there yet       lol  He also worked at the magnazite plant for around 6 yrs.  ,but wasnt making enough money so he started doing home repairs  and realized he could make more money in that line of work  and Charlesworth and Nielsen  were formed       They built 175 homes in avalon n.j. He was a smart buisness man tom and him got a long well at one point the wives were working in the office  but unforunatly  that didnt last.....  Im so glad bob shared these stories with me      

1952

November 24, 2014

The yr.he went in the service  , again he was lucky  he never saw combat   he worked on cars  

working on the dredge

November 23, 2014

When he was 16 he worked on a dredge  a little skinny kjd from capemay court house the capt.gave him a try   and he learned quickly went from kp duty to a mate learned how to do everthing and  loved it he did that several yrs. one time he went to va. to get on dredge and ended up getting beat up by union organizers  he thought he was going to die but somehow he made it.. broken nose,fractured ribs and a concussion ..his career on the dredge ended when it was a bad weather night and his buddy who worked with him fell overboard and as hard as he tried to find him in the fridgid water he was unable too and he drowned   bob never got over that and always thought he could have done more

older yrs.

November 23, 2014

Tom and bob were very tight   , they were always looking to make a dollar ,another favorite story was the one about the eels i believe they would go after dark to get them and tom was in the boat and bob was in the water and all of a sudden they heard a big spash first thing bob thought was shark or stingray  but it turned out to be a blue herring   scared the hell out of him every time he told that story he would laugh i dont remember how that money maker went , but the fishing stories were endless there never was 2 greater fisherman  who ever lived other than them two

teen yrs.

November 22, 2014

He ordered baby chicks and was going to raise chinkens  but wouldnt keep chicken coops clean so one day he came home and his dad had sold them,another venture was raising rabbits him and his best buddy tom,.. they did everything together   only had 4 rabbits to start out with and of course they multiplied quickly  he was going to sell them again his dad got mad and he came home from school and the rabbits were gone ,another story he told me was the story about bkack crows nest  3 baby birds he raised  his dad used to deliever the us mail  in a old convertible  the bird would fly in front of the car and he was always getting in trouble anything shiny in anyones car keys, eyeglasses..  the bird would take before   anyone locked  doors eventually he gave all the birds to good homes he said they made good pets and when he became older and was selling real estate  he went to list a house out in goshen and when he went in the home he was shocked,   there was a crow  in a cage and he asked the woman where she got it and she told the story about a young boy who rescued  it and gave it to her  thirty yrs later what an amazing story

more growing up

November 22, 2014

He was very young ,but he was thinking always about making money even at 6 he was picking beans and peas  and working from sun up to sun down ,he told me so many stories  when he would be walking home from picking  he carried a big stick because  there were alot of dogs and he had to make a choice he would bang the stick on the ground  so they wouldnt  bite  bob would have tears in his eyes    his dad was very sickly  from chemicals wnen he was in the service ,  rven has a child he was an amazing  one      he also was a spotter for the government   ...

 

growing up

January 17, 2014

bob had a tough life growing up .he grew up without his mom courtesy of his dad who had her committed to insane assylum .bob said back in the thirties when you didnt want to be married thats what you did .his sister was older and helped raise him he fell out of a moving car when he was three . i decided to write this because i figured it would help me with my grief...more to follow.......