My son BOBBY
 
     Bobby is a charming and nice looking youngman.  He has always been sort of hyper...  always wanting to be the center of attention... even from a very young age.  When I was first teaching him how to hit a ball.. I was letting him use one of those HUGE round platic bats.  He was about four or five.  When I pitched (slow and so he COULD hit the ball) and he would miss.. he blamed ME for him not being able to hit it! He came after me trying to hit me out of frustration! (you ever get THAT frustrated?) 

Back: Peggy and Cheryl
Front: Donna and Bobby

A group of pictures showing Bobby growing up
with some of his interests.


Front: Lori (cousin) Lindsey, Brian and Peggy
Back:  Cheryl, Bobby and Donna (about 1986)

     Of all my children he is the only one who was any problem at all in raising.  And I think it was a combination of personality and teenage rebelion.  But thank goodness he grew out of it.  He and I have always had a great relationship even though we had the run ins when he was in High School.
    He participated in various sports as a young kid but was just average in ability.  However, he astounded his family and friends and judges when he entered and won a paper airplane contest at the Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.  People of all ages entered and many were adults.  The rules required that what ever plane was designed had to fly a certain distance and length of time.  Bobby's entry looked like a Star Wars entry years before the movie.  He won a $100 watch for his efforts (which he prompty lost the week after.)
     He was really in to hard rock and the group KISS.  We didn't like his choice of music... but he was having fun   When he was in Jr High he was invited to be in a band (only because he had access a PA system and micraphones that were his mothers) He couldn't play a guitar or anything.  So he was really just sorta playing an electric guitar that wasn't plugged in !!  ... standing in the back ground.. and a part of the group.  One day.. the guys heard him singing and clowing around before they started practice.. and realized he could sing.  So he became the lead singer and performed "Stray Cat Strutt"  in a talent show and from then on he was interested in music as a profession.


On a coastal island off of South Carolina

     Bobby is an avid fisherman, an interest that I hoped he would develop.  When he was first born, my comment was "Now I have me a fishing partner".  As father and son we shared a good many fishing trips, but not near enough.  When we lived in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina we lived three blocks from the beach and six blocks from the pier.  On almost any summer day you could find Bobby at the end of the pier fishing for King Mackeral.

     In high school, he participated in show choir and special choral groups.  Another accomplisment that so impressed me was his winning second place in the regional science fair project with an experiment on crickets and how variations in temerature increased their chirping activity.

     Because of a part time job he was exposed to country music.. and made some contacts.. and started singing.  He did ok in live shows in Myrtle Beach SC where we lived.  But when he was 19 he was doing one man shows.. (like Karaoke now) and was a good entertainer.. and singer.. and made a name for himself in South Carolina. He sent a video to "Be a Star" on TNN and was selected to be a performer... He won the first competition and was second in the finals.  Just after that, he appeared as a male vocalist on "Star Search" and scored an impressive three stars losing to a four star (and four time winner) rock performer.  He continued in music professionally for a while doing mostly one man shows but ocassionally perfoming in threaters.
 
     Bobby has some talent as a song writer and he wrote his own song for the competition on the TV show "Be a Star" and won.   He recorded a few songs on tape but they were never distribted or sold to recording companies.
     His fist wife Stephanie was the daughter of a club owner.  They were married for a short while and had one daughter Ashton Nicole Bosley.  They divorced in 1997.  He left music and moved to Utah.
    After sometime of working outside of music, Bobby was contacted by some old friends who were opening a tourist music theater in Daytona Beach, Florida.  They wanted Bobby to be the MC and front man for the show.  
     The Daytona Opry was a class family music theater which catered to tourists in Daytona Beach.  Bobby led the show as one who sang and talked with the audience introducing the other acts.  It turned out to be a good move for Bobby, not because of the music but because he would meet Tracy, his current wife who has played a major role in helping him find permanent direction in his life.  The show closed after a year but Bobby had found reasons for staying in Daytona.
 
    The pride and joy of Bobby's life right now is his daughter Ashton (by his fist wife) and his new wife Tracy.  They recently took a trip to the Smokey Mountains where Ashton was introduced to the cold rushing water of mountain streams where Bobby and his siblings used to swim and tube when on picnics with the family.
Bobby and Ashton... Summer 1999
      
                 Ashton and Tracy                                  Ashton shows her charm !                         Bobby and Aston

     Bobby is now employed working out of his home in Daytona Beach as a Sales Representative for Walton Industries, a major sign manufacturer in San Antonio, Texas. He is still performing at some of the shows of the "Downtown Opry" a new show made up of many of the performers of the previous Daytona Opry. For more information on them click here 1