Brian and Kris
at ages 3 & 2

• In Jan 2008 Bob was elected to three-year term on the Vestry of Church of the Redeemer, where he is Jr. Warden, involved again with Eastwood Civic Association. Bob turns 60
   

• Fall 2005: after the move of two families from DC to Texas, then evacuating four families to Fort Worth during Hurricane Rita, Bob was more than ready to get back into his Engineering!
   


Next hurricane threat we just might stay: per TSARP, our home sits above the 500-year flood plain. See zoomed-out and zoomed-in FEMA-approved flood plain maps for our area.
 


• Summer 2005: after a decade in Foxhall Village, DC with CSC & Mobil, Bob, Diane, & Shih Tzu's Sutzi & Tchai relocated to Clear Lake, Houston TX to be near Diane's extended family.
   

• Bob was born in Auckland, moved to Waikato region at 9, earned scouting's highest award the Queen's Scout, and NZ Universities "National Scholarship" by nation-wide exam ranking. (See career web-page for chronology of all places Bob worked after graduate school, and homes web-page that has photos of places we have lived)
   

• Diane does ongoing cardiac rehab after 7 stents  in a collapsed coronary artery in Jan 2008
  
  She was an international traveling singer and composer before we married, later graduated from Westminster Choir College, and taught music in elementary schools,  Now retired from teaching, she works Mon-Thurs part-time as Admin. Assistant at Church of the Redeemer Episcopal, also does classes on writing Life Stories and writes music for church choir.
   

• Daughter Meagan went to UDC, has a five-year old son, Brian. She supports Corporate Corrupt Practices Compliance for Weatherford and evening law student at UH Law Center.
   

• Son Colin attended Duke Ellington in DC, later graduated from U. Maryland Eastern Shore. Colin & Bob remodeled a basement into an efficiency for him to live in DC on the weekends. His four-year old son Kris lives nearby in Baltimore with mother Tracy Smith.
   

• Bob's family - his sister Heather Parker and brother Don - live near Hamilton, NZ

• Bob's father David died June 11, 2008 after 3 months at Tamahere Eventide

• Bob's mother Mary died Oct 29, 2006 in Morrinsville: 'SimplyReading' is her legacy
  She was the youngest of her siblings, Peter and John Gamlen, and Marge Williams
   

• Diane's family (aunts, siblings and cousins) all live in/near Houston/Galveston
  See visitation photos of deceased mother Joan Davis, also photos from her life
  Diane's father-in-Law John Davis also died in La Porte, TX - he died in May 2007
   

• Sold our recreational vehicle lots at "Latitude 49 Resort Park" in Birch Bay, WA
   

• Click here for past Bob & Diane's annual newsletters and photos (1999 - 2005).

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