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Bob, Earl, Thelma, and her sister Hazel

Earl’s Memories of Bob

“When Bob was 16 or 17 he hitch hiked to Las Cruces New Mexico and stayed there quite a while, working at a

restaurant. He was drafted when he was about 21 and was in the army for about 4 years during the Korean War.
He served as a medic. Right after he got out of the army, he was the best man at my wedding in August of 1953.
When he got out of the service, we soon realized that we couldn’t touch him to wake him up because he would

jump up ready to fight. The war had so influenced him.

He had a number of businesses and occupations. He owned a few country stores and a restaurant. He worked in
foundries and General Electric. He also artificially inseminated cows and for a while had a farm where he milked
cows with a milking machine. He also started a cement block business. He liked to raise pigs and sometimes the

baby ones were like house pets going in and out of the house. He and his wife Audrey had a number of foster
children and one in particular, Johnny, was like a son to them and stayed with them for a long time. He took on
many of Bob’s characteristics. They adopted a baby daughter that they named Robbie Gail and she was his pride
and joy. He is buried on Laurel Hill in Kentucky outside of Pineville. He was good hearted. He liked to joke

around and try to negotiate with me…always trying to get the best deal and I’d do the same to him. But nobody
ever won.” Earl Davison (from a transcript of a recorded interview made by his daughter Earlene in 2003)