Linda Rosenbloom

Two months after Bob and I met, he asked me to marry him, and he had a couple of conditions.  One of them was that we not be officially engaged until I turned 20.  He didn't want to be engaged to a teenager.  The other condition was that I understand what I was getting into.  He told me that he would be working long and late hours and that I would be by myself a lot.  He wanted to know that when he went to work I was going to be OK and everything was OK at home so he didn't have to worry about me.

The first few months that we were married, I worked during the day and he worked nights and we didn't see each other.  We wrote notes to each other, and when he wasn't around, I cried a lot.

He told me that the State Police was a very close knit family and that all of our friends would be State Policemen and their families.   And they were... and they were all named Bob! There was my Bob; Becky's Bob, Bob Trippeer; Sam's Bob, Bob Schmerheim; and Doris's Bob, Bob Carroll.  I say it that way because all of those State Police wives became my very best friends. 

Another thing he told me was that we would probably be moving a lot, that he would be transferred all over the state, and he wanted to know that I could deal with that.  One day he came home and he said, "We've been transferred to Alamogordo."  On the day we moved, we were riding to Alamogordo, and he held my hand and laughed at me while I cried all the way.

In Alamogordo we started expanding our family... twice.  He came home one day and said, "We're moving to Albuquerque."  I was very happy about moving to Albuquerque.  By then we had become very close with the Trippeer's, and they were up there so I felt like I wasn't going to be alone, and I wasn't.

He came to me later on, after we had been here for a while, and told me we were going to move again, back to Las Cruces.  He was really excited about it, and I was too.  I had mixed emotions about it though, because I hated leaving Becky and Bob and all of our friends.

On November 8th, he was out working and he came home for dinner.  He was to meet with a man who was interested in buying our house, and he actually sold our house.  Then he got called out, and the kids and I walked to the front door with him.  We hugged him and we kissed him and we told him goodbye.

Bob had such a dynamic personality.  He was such a wonderful husband and father.  He knew exactly what he wanted, and he loved being a State Policeman.

The dedication of this building is such a tribute and an honor to him and he would be so proud.  I would like to thank the State Police Association, Chief Taylor, Secretary Bakas, and everyone who has worked so hard to put this together.

Thank you very much.

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