Bonita Robbers-Wells:  

Life I enlisted in the Navy after H.S. Worked as a Hospital Corp Wave. Met and married my husband when stationed in San Diego. Married since 1970. we had 1 daughter and 2 boys. Husband worked long 12 hr days which left me the all important job of bringing up the kids. Helped the two boys get through Boys Scouts as a Volunteer in the organization since about 1983. One made the rank of Life Scout the other became an Eagle Scout. I am still involved as a Volunteer having risen to and worked as the District Commissioner s 2003- 2014 in VT. I seem to made a career out of a Volunteer Organization but love it's d values and how it helps boys develop into good young men with good values and skills to carry them through life. Life has taken me to many places since leaving Cincinnati. My husband served 8 years which took us overseas to live in Italy for a few years. We were able to travel some to a couple other countries from there. Living abroad is an experience every young person should take advantage of if they get the opportunity. Seeing cultural differences helps put our country in a whole new light. I have lived many places across the USA as well and have friends in many places. Our kids are all grown up with lives of their own. They are spread around New England. The oldest lives in MA is now divorced and not in good health, the next one never married - Is living in NY with his job taking him all over New England, the youngest married and settled in VT.. The next generation is now lurking in the shadows to embark on the journey of life. 5 grand children in all. with finally a Grandson. to carry on the family name. I have never been athletic but made the comment to my husband in 2007 that when he retired I would need to learn how to golf since that is where he disappeared to the rest of that summer after our youngest son got married when he was off work. My foot in mouth disease got me into trouble with that comment. Middle of the next winter when the Club membership came due my husband asked if I was going to golf with him the next summer. In spite of my crooked walk from an injury where I tore something in my left knee 15years before and was now wearing a heavy duty brace on the knee I gulped and said okay. That first summer was quite the experience but I had a good attitude and the bug hit. The next winter the knee got replaced and I went back out to golf with even more passion. Hubby had a lot of fun watching my antics as I tried my best to hit that tiniest of balls in the largest of landscapes in the years since then. Claimed even as his health could take him out of the game he will be my caddy! I am in trouble, since I do have a mind of my own and it sometimes clashes with what he tries to tell me. We went through many tough times and learning curves and still stayed together. He took early retirement for health issues. Retirement has brought other things into play. Those so called "Golden Years" are not so gold. Glad we did so much traveling when younger because now we have health issues coming at us and you find the gold went to kids schooling etc over the years so living on an fixed income which is half what someone used to be able to earn is getting challenging. Social Security keeps threatening to reduce that even more. Perhaps if those who made those decisions lived at our level they might understand better the challenges to surviving the "not so gold years". In fall of 2015 We sold our home in VT and moved to S.C. in the upstate region. We golfed and enjoyed the last years.. I figured out in 2020 that he had inherited Alzhiemer's and it was now showing in many ways. Then in Jan 2021 he fell ill with Covid. I got it a little over a week later from him. I had to call an ambulance to take him to the hospital on my worse day. I got better. He worked hard to do so but in the end could not. My heart broke through the whole journey. I was fortunate to be able to visit him twice a day once we reached the 21rst day after out positiv...Expand for more