The music was loud, the lights were dimmed and the night was young that night at Kick Shuckers bar, Oklahoma. When Bob Brown spots what would be his future wife, Linda wolf across the room, by herself. Then he asked her to dance.
That was the beginning of the couple’s 30 year marriage. But before they met they had lives outside of just going to bars, that consist of nobel and time consuming activities.
Linda went to school at many places many different times and in many different cities as well. She studied to be a dentist, had her own practice in liberal Kansas.She even got her doctorate. Linda went to the University of Denver Colorado, Kansas city and attended friends university. Linda always enjoyed learning because of her parents’ occupations and seeing how hard working they were as teachers. And she says her greatest influences were her parents and 3 sisters, being the middle child.
Bob was “a cowboy,” he says, he was a rancher who owned a farm, had horses and cows too. Bob also loved western tv shows, as you could possibly imagine. He attended a trade school and Bob says his heroes would consist of peewee lambert who was a jockey from his home town because he liked that someone had big accomplishments in things he liked and he could, in some big ways relate to him.
Before meeting Bob Brown, Linda already had two children of her own, Stephanie Lynn wolf and Stevie or Stephen Arthur Wolf. “They’re thoughtful and I just can’t complain, they’re very neat kids,” Linda described with a wide grin on her face. “I just liked playing ball with them,[describing spending time with them and valuing that time spent]” Bob said with light in his eyes.
As the kids were growing up they did the gifts as any other American family but ”Christmas has never really been a big deal,” Linda said with description” I didn’t grow up believing in Christmas,” she then explained. But Bob on the other hand did celebrate Christmas”I like to see all the little kids playing with their toys…. And of course big girls like you!” he said as we all laughed.
Although the couple’s first Christmas wasn’t a big deal, the first new year’s was. “She came over and she cooked us black eyed peas for good luck” and his eyes glistened with remembrance “and hamburgers,” hamburgers are still Bobs favorite food.
Linda made black eyed peas every year after that on the same day for good luck into the new year.
Bob says he would describe himself as “happy go lucky,” and his wife as “active go get her, and she knows what she wants you could say,” he said with a grin and a glance at his wife.
Bob’s advice for anyone entering adulthood would be to “ always be nice to young children and always be a gentleman.”
Reese Conklin says “Bob and Linda inspire me, they’re always kind, and happy to help me with problems I have,” as she smiled “And they almost feel like a second family.”
Bob and Linda really are the best interpretation I could think of for a funny, happy and just overall a wonderful couple. They are both so extremely kind and have a smile on their face each time i see them and they both always have the greatest of stories waiting for me each week I visit them.
I hope in telling their stories I can inspire others the way they’ve inspired me.
