Please help. We lost our Dad in a fatal car crash

Hi, my name is Shannon McMains. This is my Mom, Julia and Dad, Robert but people who know him call him “Bob”. They have been married for about 40 years. My mom and us moved down here from Alaska when I was 7 yrs old and my sister was 3-1/2. I’m 54 now.

She got a job as a graphics art designer at a company called Graphiques House. The owner was Mr. Robert Lewis. Long story short, they eventually started dating and he came into our lives. He helped raised us with my mom. We had many family adventures together. They eventually got married. He even taught me to drive. We both worked at his business, a small printing company in Kent when we lived at home. As his business grew into larger businesses, he had a printing company and also a computer business, we went with him working in the Print shop.

Eventually we got other jobs as we moved away from home. Still Bob and Julia continued on with the print shop and computer businesses. Even today, it is just the two of them in a small office in Kent, you could still get printing, business cards, copies etc done.

some of my friends still do have them do work for them.

On Friday, December 2, 2022, my Dad was heading out of the office parking lot to go on a bank errand. They share a single car. He would be right back, the banks just up the road. The traffic stopped to let him drive out into the middle turn lane. A driver decided they didn’t want to stop and drove rapidly up the middle turn lane and t-boned directly into my Dad, driver side, pushing his car out into the far side of the the opposite lane. My mom heard the car crash, but wasn’t aware that it was my dad. All traffic was stopped blocking the office view. The office neighbor ran out into the traffic to see if everyone was ok. She saw that it was my Dad, Bob, and ran back to tell my mom. He was alive.

As they were both outside in the parking lot calling the police, another car came driving rapidly from the other direction, in the lane that Bob had ended up in an t-boned into the passenger side, pushing his already destroyed car farther up the road, as my mom watched. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the paramedics.

It was supposed to be just a few minute trip. And now he will never return to see his grand-daughter graduate high school, graduate College or walk her down the aisle or become an adult. Thanks to someone that was in a rush to get somewhere. My mom lost her best friend and her husband. We lost the man that helped raise us and his grand daughter.

It takes both of them to survive financially. Now it’s gonna be a financial struggle to survive, the business, the house etc.. She doesn’t even have a car to drive, it was totally destroyed in the two crashes. There aren’t a lot of funds in the bank when you own your own business.

I don’t like to put our business on front street, but she really needs your help. Eventually our funds will dry up trying to keep her going until we can get issues resolved. He didn’t have life insurance, so it’s all on my mom.

Please donate to help if you can. I know they had a lot of people that they have become friends with over the years.

Anything will help her. We need to raise over $500 or else all the money is returned to the donators.

From our Family to yours, we want to thank you so much for any of your help for my mom.