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Timber Location:   -
great site, thx. Monday, May 12, 2008 08:44 PM Write a comment
Linda McMillan Send E-mail Location:   -
I want to see what Bobby has done. Barbara said it was great. Wednesday, April 2, 2008 06:29 PM Write a comment
Alison Beron Frey Send E-mail Location:   San Antonio
Happy Birthday Bobby! Same month as my John...you two up there in heaven need to be getting together. Both of you would be 39. Precious Bobby...you will never be forgotten.
Alison Tuesday, January 29, 2008 08:10 AM Write a comment
Eddy Location:   -
Happy Birthday my dear brother...You are always in my thoughts... Monday, January 28, 2008 04:17 PM Write a comment
Blake Hall Location:   Hawaii
Happy 39, Bob. Your friendship and brotherhood over the past 35 years is a true reflection on who I am today. Thank you. Sunday, January 27, 2008 11:14 PM Write a comment
Gina Brackett Beck Send E-mail Location:   Austin
It's been three years and not a day has gone by without Bobby in my thoughts. He is with me in spirit and cheering me on. Tuesday, November 20, 2007 01:52 AM Write a comment
Robert Grandjean Send E-mail Location:   NY
This was an invitation to Bobby's birthday party 10 years ago Saturday, February 10, 2007 10:07 AM Write a comment
Blake Hall Location:   Austin
Today's #38 for you, Bob - Happy Birthday!

You never drift too far from my thoughts. Saturday, January 27, 2007 06:00 PM Write a comment
Lisa Tillery-Skidmore Send E-mail Location:   Tulsa, OK
Bobby was my first crush, as I'm sure he was many other young girls. We both attended Parsons elementary and Atkins Jr. High. Strangely, I just learned of Bobby's passing through googling the people I thought would have really done something great in their life. I'm deeply saddened that he is gone, but not at all surprised at what he accomplished on this earth. He was magnificent in so many ways. From the Peter Pan production at Tech, to his crowd pleasing performance at my 15th birthday party, "Knock it Off!", to the awesome works of art in his gallery!! The world is a better place for having you, and thanks for the memories that will live in my heart forever. Tuesday, December 5, 2006 12:36 PM Write a comment
matthew britton Send E-mail Location:   lubbock, tx
Bobby, it has been 2 years and I think about you quite often. Wherever you may roam I hope you are experiencing freedom at its highest. I miss you my friend and have a heartful of memories that I think about and can only help but to smile because you helped to place them there. See you my dear old friend. Mr and Mrs Paterson and Eddy, I love you too !

Matthew Britton Thursday, November 9, 2006 06:32 PM Write a comment
Alison Beron Frey Send E-mail Location:   San Antonio, Texas
I knew Bobby all through high school. My friend Maria Perez introduced me to him because he had such a crush on him. He was so cute and we loved his personality. His brother Eddy was very good friends with my brother David and David and Bobby acted together throughout high school. I just came across this website when I was thinking about Bobby due to my own tragedy of my husband John recently passing away last month and I was reflecting on my life. I think, hmmm....could Bobby be meeting my John up in heaven? Maybe so...those two would get along fantastically. Both have generous hearts and beautiful souls. I'm thinking of you all. Love, Alison Wednesday, March 22, 2006 11:00 PM Write a comment
Dave Knapp Send E-mail Location:   Hollywood
Goodbye old friend.
Love Dave Knapp Wednesday, November 16, 2005 03:19 PM Write a comment
Mary Anne Speck Location:   Houston & Saint Louis
Bobby was one of the most talented and giving students I ever had the privilege of working with. He made people happy. I really enjoyed this thoughtful and beautiful website. :-) Monday, October 24, 2005 12:57 PM Write a comment
Paul Speck Send E-mail Location:   New York, NY
Dear Eddy, Kirsten and Mr. and Mrs. Patterson,

Today I was shocked and saddened to learn of Bobby's passing. Thank you for this website and guestbook. I appreciate this chance to tell you how terrific a person I think Bobby was, and how sorry I am for your loss.

I lost touch with Bobby--as I did with all of my "Lubbock life"--in 1985, upon graduating from Lubbock High and moving away from Texas. But, over the course of my many moves since then (in fact, probably, because of those moves), my memories of Lubbock have grown increasingly precious to me, and many of those memories--one way or another--involve Bobby.

(continued below -- SORRY I wrote so much...) Tuesday, October 18, 2005 09:51 PM Write a comment
Paul Speck Send E-mail Location:   New York, NY
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I don't remember precisely when Bobby and I met, but it would have been in 1 of several venues where Lubbock kids who enjoyed the performing arts all were meeting each other back then: Cindy [last name?'s] "Young Actor's Workshop" at Texas Tech, one of Enid Racz's dance productions, or my mom's "Shake Hands With Your Future" summer camp.

Actually, now that I think about it, I believe that I met Bobby as a fellow actor in Cindy's second musical review at Tech, in which Bobby sang ... something. I can't remember the song. But I remember his voice. Booming, wide-ranging, and full of character. That skinny kid didn't just have a great pair of lungs. He had a 3-octave range, and I can see his face now, from the side, as he looked out at the audience: serious, for once, and falling right into his role. I think that it was in that musical that Bobby and I first became friends, and got a glimpse of Bobby's many talents. Tuesday, October 18, 2005 09:50 PM Write a comment
Paul Speck Send E-mail Location:   New York, NY
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My friendship with Bobby grew substantially the (next?) summer when Bobby and I attended "Shake Hands With Your Future." Bobby was the most popular kid there, needless to say. And, having gotten to know each other in Cindy's musical, we decided to put together an act for the Shake Hands talent show. Our choice: "Baba O'Reilly" by The Who. I think that Baba O'Reilly must be a tough song to perform even for Roger Daltry and Pete Townsend, and in those days (I think Bobby had just finished 9th grade), Bobby and I didn't even have any musical instruments, much less knowledge of how to play instruments (and there were only 2 of us), but that didn't stop our plans.

My friend from Christ The King Junior High School, John Filippone, was in town from Deerfield, and while at CTK, John and I had discovered a common interest in guitar, thus starting a 4-year process of planning for and occasionally even practicing to be in a band--the "Vomiting Lizards," I think--during summers when John was in town. Tuesday, October 18, 2005 09:50 PM Write a comment
Paul Speck Send E-mail Location:   New York, Ny
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I suggested to Bobby that we draft John (who had attended Shake Hands previously) to play guitar with us in the show. Someone else played the drums, I played keyboards, Bobby Sang--and voila! It was awful!!! But it was one of the most fun 7 minutes of my life!!!!! And it had the effect of introducing Bobby and John to one another and getting them together on stage for the first time ever.

The next year Bobby and I enrolled in Cindy's weekly acting classes at Tech (now part of "Shake Hands'" new "Super Saturdays" program), but I didn't learn much acting there. I think poor Cindy didn't quite know what to do with this skinny, funny blonde kid named Bobby who clearly was the best actor in the class, but who also was developing a talent in the area of "girls" to compete with his focus on thespianism. Even when Bobby and I weren't skipping acting class to play pinball downstairs in the student union at Tech, we mostly spent our time in class honing harmonic versions of "Sandman" and "Let's Go to the Lobby" and performing for the girls. (We were the only 2 boys.) The thing is: Bobby didn't NEED to practice like everyone else. He was and always would be better than everyone else, practice or not. Tuesday, October 18, 2005 09:49 PM Write a comment
Paul Speck Send E-mail Location:   New York, NY
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During my senior year at LHS, Bobby joined the school as a sophomore and starred opposite Deanna Shoemaker in the school's production of "The Fantastiks." I played piano. David Baron and Adam Harvey played really terrific acting roles. And Deanna and Bobby started dating.

As a loving tribute to her, that spring in LHS's own talent show, Bobby and I decided to perform Led Zeppelin's "Tangerine" and dedicate it "To Deanna Shoe and Sweet Jaleen (my girlfriend), you are our dreams, love Tangerine." The school's Vice Principal Mr Umstot was incensed that we had said something unplanned on stage, but unlike our earlier Who rendition, "Tangerine" actually wasn't terrible, and so that summer--my last in Lubbock--Bobby and I did put together a set of about 15 songs ranging from old Stones ballads to Jimmy Buffet that we finally played -- exactly once -- in a small bar on Broadway right before I moved away. Tuesday, October 18, 2005 09:48 PM Write a comment
Paul Speck Send E-mail Location:   New York, NY
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It's a testament to how little I knew Bobby, even with so many memories, that I just learned on this website that he and I share the same birthday. I think that's revealing. Many, many people probably have lists as long as mine of Bobby memories, and yet I don't know about most of them. 20 years later, my time with him remains extremely fun and rewarding to me, and his presence--however distant--still fills a big space in my heart, but I know that for every minute I spent with Bobby, there were 100 more that he spent elsewhere, and obviously there were many parts of his life that I never got to discover.

That is my loss, but I don't feel disappointed at all, for even in the brief period of time that it was my luck to know and be friends with Bobby at all, he touched me deeply and in a way that I always will always treasure and enjoy. Tuesday, October 18, 2005 09:47 PM Write a comment
Paul Speck Send E-mail Location:   New York, NY
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I barely knew Eddy directly. But I have strong and very positive impressions of you from Bobby, all of which reflected a closeness and respect that I found unusual between two brothers of such a young age.

I also have never met you Kirsten, but I know that if Bobby loved you that you must be a really great person and that Bobby must have been practically, embarassingly giddy around you.

I'm very sorry for you Mr and Mrs Patterson, who raised 2 great sons. Great kids almost always come from great parents, and I know that Bobby loved you a lot.

I apologize for taking up so much space in this guest book, but I want all of you to know how much Bobby meant to me and how much I know you meant to him.

With Peace and Love.
Paul Speck Tuesday, October 18, 2005 09:46 PM Write a comment

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