Eva Adams-Myers:  

My Dad was diagnosed with cancer during my senior year of high school. In order for the family to be close he & my Mom made the decision to move to Wilkes where 2 of my sisters and my only brother were already living. They bought a house and we moved. It was a very traumatic experience for me. I loved my friends and Watauga High. I made a "deal" with them - if they would let me go back to Boone the last 3 months of my senior year, I would graduate; otherwise I was going to quit school. Talk and "young and dumb!!!!" They let me live with my grandfather and I graduated sadly seeing some of my friends for the last time. I moved in with my parents, my Dad was getting worse. In order to help, instead of going on to college, I went to work. I was at my first job for 5 years. During those 5 years, I met the love of my life, Bobby Adams. Amazingly when my Dad was first diagnosed, he was given 6 - 15 months to live. He lived through all of these years and walked me down the isle in 1975. Bob and I married, 3 1/2 years later we were blessed with our first child a boy whom we named Bradley and then 17 months later we were blessed with a daughter, Tennille. We had an awesome marriage that lasted 20 years. He became an alcoholic, which I never knew because he never drank at home and was one who could drink and you could never know it. Inside it was destroying him. He was in our local hospital overnight, transferred to Baptist Hospital in Winston Salem and 16 days later died. That was in December 1994. I had 2 teenagers (14 & 15) HORRIBLE ages to lose a parent (not that there is ever a good age). We were like the 3 Musketeers. We needed each other, depended and respected how each other were feeling over the loss and made it through those hard days, months and years with God by our side. Teenage years as all of us who are parents know, are tough. Thank God and I thank Him daily, both of my children made good choices, graduated from high school with honors, then went on to college where each again graduated with honors. It was in 1994 that I left that job and went to work for Lowe's Companies, Inc. I have been with Lowe's 21+ years and absolutely love my job. I work in HRIS as a Business Analyst. My job has taken me to Canada, California, Ohio and several other states. While Bradley & Tennille were in high school, God sent me the most wonderful man, Ricky Myers. We married in 1996, he took a huge part in my children's lives and treated them as if he was their Dad. He taught both of them how to drive a straight shift. Those were some FUN times! When my son moved out to go to school, I cried. I couldn't pass by his bedroom door with looking in and being sad (and proud) at the same time. He didn't want to be too far from home, so he chose ASU. My daughter on the other hand never liked living in Wilkes, and decided to go as far away as possible but in-state for tuition purposes. She chose UNC-Wilmington. Each of them met their spouse while in college. My son and his wife have 3 little boys (7, 5 & 3) and currently live in Atlanta. My daughter & her husband have 2 daughters (4 years old & 9 months old) and still live in Wilmington. I lost my second husband on 7/21/2010 in a motorcycle accident. We both enjoyed riding our own bikes, but when we took long trips I rode with him. We rode to Niagara Falls and went on into Toronto, Canada in 1997. Our most favorite ride was to the Outer Banks of NC. We rode there at least 4 times a year, sometimes just the two of us, other times with 2 other couples. Our most favorite vacation was to Hawaii in 2008. 2 days before we were scheduled to leave, he said while we were there we should renew our wedding vows. I had always wanted to do that, but was shocked he mentioned it...not something a man would generally think of. I got on the internet and made the arrangements. We renewed our vows in Oahu on Fantasy Island with Diamond Head in the background - and 2 rainbows!! It was PERFECT just like our marriage. The night he was killed, I was obviously not with him. He was on his way home, it had been raining really hard, the road was very wet. He missed his e...Expand for more