Bob was born in Ft Bragg North Carolina at the Army hospital there. parents are Richard and Patricia {Allen}Spain.He has 2 older sisters Jeanna and Christina, and 1 younger sister Jessica.He was a happy baby. Always smiling.Always getting into something.
He was bit by a dog when he was almost 2, he came up on a dog in our yard and hit
it in the nose with a pair of Visegrips, while it was eating. It left him with 18 stitches in his head.
When he was 3 we went on a camping trip and he was fascinated with the boats and the fish. I looked out towards the boat dock and we saw boats floating away with noone in them,I panicked and said where is Bob? we ran to the dock and there he was standing with his arms crossed in front of his chest just laughing away[he had unhooked the ropes somehow on 3 boats.
Then when he was 6 yrs old he had a bone disease in his hips called Leg Perthes. So he had to wear a cast for 6 months, then braces for 1 1/2 yrs on his legs. It didn't slow him down much though.
In 1986 we lost his dad in a boating accident that Bob,at the age of 10, was also in. He was devastated.He loved his dad very much as did all of his family.
He had several scrapes and near misses through his teen yrs,he had meningitis at the age of 13, was diaganosed with Turets Syndrome when he was 16,Then when he was 23, he was walking home from work one night and a van ran off of the road and hit him.He started having al ot of back pain from that. he tried to work with it anyway, and just made it worse. He was going through physical therapy and facing back surgery. But he almost always had a smile for everyone, even when he was in pain. He loved to make people laugh. He also loved all animals, He was always bringing home stray puppies, cats, turtles, lizards, any kind of animal, he would bring it home.
