Bob Welling

Bob first met Bob Welling when he worked for the Associated Press. 
Bob Welling worked at the bureau in Charleston.  Bob (Gay) was a
stringer photographer when a WVU student.  Bob Welling & Bob
worked as a team covering a family picnic at Moundsville Prison. 
When we were first married and living in Morgantown, Bob Welling
joined us for Thanksgiving Dinner. 

When we moved to Charleston in the early 80s, we were friends
and visited each other.  Bob had several Siamese cats.  Bob 's
family was in Keyser, close to my parents' home, and he travelled
home with us once. 

It was Bob Welling, then the bureau chief at AP, who called Bob,
then working at the Charleston Daily Mail, to cover a hostage
situation at a St. Albans Church.  Bob & Bob traded themselves
for hostages and entered the church.  It was after we moved back
to Morgantown that Bob Welling moved to DC as the press
secretary for a West Virginia Congressman.  He loved DC and
eventually worked with other members of Congress. It was Bob
Welling that asked President Reagan to send a "welcome
to the world" letter to our son Greg after his birth in 1987.

Bob died of a massive heart attack jogging on the Washington Mall.