Thursday, July 18, 2024
I had spent the morning working outside and being as it’s pretty hot down here in Texas, I had come in to take a shower and a nap. A couple of hours later I woke up to a thunder clap, rolled over to look at my phone to see what time it was, and read what I had been dreading reading for a long time. My sister had left a text message asking if I knew Bob Gregg had passed away back in December. I replied simply that “he was my mentor”.
When I say he was my mentor, it wasn’t for school, it wasn’t for music, it was for life. I have a reverence for Bob that I cannot describe well in words. He was a teacher but again not just for music, he taught me how a man should act, how a father should act, and what to strive for as a good human being.
I watched Todd’s eulogy and I wish I had been there. It let me know that, the way I feel, is the way thousands of people feel that had the privilege of knowing him. He was like a father to me in many ways and he was there for me in many hard times. His family, Laura and the girls, always treated me as a son and brother and I honestly always felt that way around them. I cannot convey the comfort that brought me. I am profoundly sorry that I was not around at the time of his passing and sincerely hope that his family are doing well, I love you all.
I am happy in knowing that I did have the opportunity to see him one last time at the county fair some years ago, if for nothing else, just for him to see that I did not falter, I tried to do well as a man, and that I have a family of my own now. Laura, I want you and the girls to know that he was the single greatest man I have ever met and that I will miss him very much.
