This memorial is for our loved one Bubba Chipman who passed away unexpectly March 26, 2006; from acute Broncial Pneuonia! Bubba was a wonderful Son, Brother, Grandson, Uncle, Husband, Father and friend to so many. We will never forget you, and you live in each and every one of us. You may be gone but you will NEVER EVER be forgotten...

Thank you all so much for visiting Bubba's site, The girls and I love to see the candles and tributes people leave. It all means his memory is still very much alive not only in us, but others as well. Please take time and look at the entire site. There is  so much under legacy and time line. I try to update as much as I can, sometimes however it is very difficult to even come to this site but I try the best I can.
Don't forget to lite a candle before you leave, to keep Bubba's memory alive. Thank you all so much for all the support.

Krista, Alexis
and Kady Chipman

July 24, 2008
Myrtle Beach

5-21-08 BY lEX

My Dearest Angel
You were my husband
my best friend
my one and only true soul mate
we always said
"until the end of time"
Yet,
You decided that wasn't enough
and became my angel
now souring high up above
always watching us close by
I know you're all around me
I feel you everywhere
as the hot sun beats down upon my face
the cool breeze that blows the hair out of my face
at night time
i look to the clear sky
The star I see so very bright
looking upon me during the night
I know it is you looking down on me
your one and only
loving wife.
Krista Chipman
5-14-08

Two years, seems like an eternity,
I know you watch over us,
and not a day goe's by
that I don't miss you angel.
your spirit will be with me,
forever in my heart.
You are sorely missed and
Always with me
Love you angel,

Mom

My Daddy,
I Miss You
Daddy if I could have you back
There's nothing I wouldnt do
To hear you laugh
Or even to tell me I'm wrong
There's nothing I wouldnt do
Why did you leave this world so soon?
Leave us all alone
Alone without you.
To have you back
There's nothing I wouldnt do
It's so unfair
This world isn't fair
But I want you back
Daddy I need a hug
Need you to wipe the tears away
And there's nothing I wouldnt do
To have you back...
Alexis Chipman

Kady!!!!
Kady loves Hannah Montana. In the show Hannah's mom passed away and she wrote a song for her mother. Kady often signs this song over and over for her daddy. I told Kady I would put it in her daddy's site. so Bubba this is for you...

I wonder...
I wonder if your happy, Looking down on us
I wonder why you left us
On that bright and sunny day
I wonder if you laughed
When I ran into the door
I wonder what you did
When I said my head was sore
I wonder if your heart grew bigger
Because your love is so sincere
I wonder why you left us here to cry
And learned how to use your new wings
And learned how to fly
I just wonder???
Love you always n forever,
Poohbear 

 




They say there is a reason,
They say that time will heal,
But neither time nor reason,
Will change the way we feel,
For no-one knows the heartache,
That lies behind our smiles,
No-one knows how many times,
We have broken down and cried,
We want to tell you something,
So there won't be any doubt,
You're so wonderful to think of,
But so hard to be without


                                  

           
                    

Thank you so much
Lisa



Made by Alexis Chipman
12 yrs. old
10-11-07
              

                                                                           






                                                           
We made it to Disney baby!!!        


We knew you were with us!!!


8/07


Look at Kady's face! she is SO your child!





                                                                           

Our PRINCESSes...

   





Alexis made this one 10-7-07

Alexis has been mesing around with some pictures and made 
this picture and was so proud of it 
I wanted to add it... 

this is Alexis most favorest picture of her and her Dad, 
It was the very last father daughter dance 
they got to attend together..




May,1 2007
Jenn and I went to cemetary today and planted flowers 
and did mulch,
It was a beuitiful day
 and we actually had alot of fun...
after we where done edging 
we noticed it ended up being
the shape of a HEART!!!
 I am so proud of myself
for the way it looks I wanted to share it with everyone!


THANK YOU SO MUCH JENN... 
YOU ARE THE BESTEST FRIEND ANYONE COULD ASK FOR 
AND I COULDN'T HAVE DONE THIS 
WITHOUT YOU!







                                 


                             

April 21, 2007

The girls had a blast... HUGE step for us
I know you where watching up above
laughing at us!
  
OUR MUDDY GIRLS!!!



                                 









One Year...

It seems like just yesterday, you were in my arms
Yet,
A lifetime ago, that you held me in your arms
I miss you so very much
you are ALL I can think of
not really sure how I made it this far without you by my side
I try everyday to put that smile apon my face
when I am truly dying inside...




You left without a warning
One year ago today
Not even saying good-bye
and I can't seem to stop
asking why?
Nothing will ever be the same
The house is so empy without you here
we were to grow old together
and push each other in our wheelchairs
I didn't see this coming
it hit me by surprise
When you left this world
a BIG part of me died
and I will never be the same
I'll sit and wait and NEVER give up
Until we are together again
for all Eternity
Krista

                                              

           
   Please keep his memory alive and share stories under Tributes so that as Our girls get older they will have this to look back on forever and never forget, and when they have children someday they can take there children to this site and see all the love everyone had for Bubba. Please light a candle before you go...

Bubba had so much love for his family! He was a big time Mama's boy and would do anything for his dad and brothers...Family ALWAYS came first no matter what...









IF TEARS COULD BUILD A STAIRWAY
AND MEMORIES WERE A LANE
I WOULD WALK RIGHT UP TO HEAVEN
TO BRING YOU HOME AGAIN
NO FAREWELL WORDS WERE SPOKEN
NO TIME TO SAY GOODBYE
YOU WERE GONE BEFORE I KNEW IT
AND ONLY GOD KNOWS WHY
MY HEART STILL ACHES WITH SADNESS
AND SECRET TEARS STILL FLOW
WHAT IT MEANT TO LOSE YOU
NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW"
Author Unknown
       
                         
                                                              
                                                            
                                                                                                            
                                               

     Bubba was such a cute little boy with his curly blond hair and chubby cheeks, but man did that boy have a temper, when he would get upset he would just drop to the floor screaming. Bubba was always into something, when he was in preschool he "blew up" the toliets and was removed from that school. (as Kady did when she was 3) Bubba is a huge animal lover, his mom told me that on numerous occasions he would come home with all kinds of animals, one time he came with a bucket of snakes!!!. 

                    
          

                                           


     

    

Bubba and his older brother John were always doing things together and thought they were very sneaky kids, like when they caught  there parents closet on fire because they wanted to play with a lighter, then tryed to hide the huge burn mark in the floor, or when they decided to sneak into there Grandfathers backseat of his car and play with matches and caught that on fire as well. I can only imagin the trouble those boys got into. (switches...OUCH)



         All the scars he had were many great stories to him that he told me about over and over. Like the one on his arm that I guess was very bad, that him and John told there mom, that he fell, when actually they were playing with knifes; that was alot of stitches... John and Bubba were unlike any other brothers I have ever seen, the love for John was unbeatable, They did everything together, when John got his first steady girlfriend Bubba was so very jealous because the new girl took all the time away from him. The things those boys did together, all I can say is wow!! I remember when they got sprayed by a skunk walking in the woods, they came walking back to the house and said "mom I think he got sprayed" it was the worst smell ever! They were always there for one another no matter what, John always came first.


                                                                                             





    Bubba always wanted to try sports so his parents always put him in them; he never lasted more then a few days, His main love were bikes, he could take a box full of parts of ATVs, street bikes what ever and turn that box of parts into something you could ride down the road it was amazing. When I first met Bubba I walked in to his garage and about fell over! That one car garage had so many parts and boxes of parts and bikes it was unreal, you literally had to step on the parts to get anywhere!!! He was in that garage all the time, he would of stayed in there 24/7 if you'd of let him. People were always bringing there bikes over for him to look at, it was kind of a "side" job that he loved! Later in life every Friday Bubba and his older brother Larry and a few friends would go riding. He would get done working early get ready and away they would go until early the next morning, it didn't matter if it was raining, snowing or freezing outside, they would go! It was his passion. He would come home so muddy that he would have to strip down to his boxers on the porch before even coming in the house. He would wake me up and tell me all the fun he had and what stupid things him and his brother would do and all the "cool" crashes. There were times he would not even go to work if it was nice out just to go riding. He gave his passion of bikes to our girls, he taught them how to ride (which made me so nervous) One time when Alexis was only one he took her on his 3-wheeler and was doing "donuts" just on two wheels, that girl laughed and laughed and kept saying "Daddy faster faster" I will remember that always He would take them and all the neighbor kids around the block all the time. Last year the day before Thanksgiving 2005 we had to pick his mom up from the airport and we had a bad snow storm, do you think he went to get her? Noway! he had to get that bike out and play, the roads were so bad at times he would get on that bike and go up and down the main roads, he loved the thrill. When we were younger we road those things every where, He would come pick me up and then  take me back to his house, every time I would get to drive I would hit every mud puddle I saw,  we would laugh and laugh for hours. One day after school, a bunch of us went to the trails and it was really mudy and he got this bright idea that he could fly threw this HUGE thick nasty mud, half way threw the front tire sunk and the back tires went straight up  along with him, his head was stuck in the mud it took 3 people to get him and the bike out!!! wish I had my camera that day...

                             




                    
                                                            <3 thank you meghan <3  

               


Feels like a hundred years,
I still can't believe you're gone
So I'll stay up all night
with these bloodshot eyes
while these walls surround me
with the story of our life...



                                                      


           
I met Bubba in 1990 our freshman year thru a friend, we became very close friends very fast, He started coming over alot thru out the summer and was there durning a very difficult time in my life. He would bring me over to his house and I clicked very well with his family; in the begining I rememmber sitting on the couch and his mom walkin in from the store saying "Joe is your girlfriend gonna eat with us?" man, he stood up so fast and yelled "she is just my friend!!!!! They all new  better. Late at night when everyone at his house was sleeping (this is because he didnt want anyone to know he was talking to a girl) we would talk on the phone and he was so cute because he couldnt come right out and say "I like you" so he would talk about Fred and Wilma Flinstone and how they loved Orange crush pop, that was his waying of saying he had a crush on me. thru out the years we would see orange crush pop and get it for the other one or anything flinstones, it was so funny to us years later. 
    
                                                                 

                                     

    Our sophmore year in school we had english class together and we would always get in trouble for talking and me for playing with his long curly hair, finally one day our english teacher Mrs. Jennings had written on the chalk board that the subject of the day was to get Joe and Krista FINALLY together. Needless to say it worked and we have been together ever since. We did everything together, it was always the two of us, John and his best friend Donnie. We were complete opposites but it worked really well.      

        



     Bubba was a very intimidating person, he looked very scary with his bald head and tattoos, but if you knew him he was a very big teddy bear, a kid at heart. Bubba loved cartoons, esp. Sponge Bob that was his all time favorite. Bubba would get on the floor and play barbies with the girls, each morning I had to be at work before the girls had to be at school, every morning he would get them up make sure they matched and did there hair, even curled it! He wanted to know how to french braid, because the girls liked having that done to there hair, so Alexis and myself taught him how to do this with one of those big barbie heads and he learned how, he was so proud of himself! This is a side of Bubba alot of people didnt see. Bedtime for the girls was always so irritating to me, I would tuck them in and he would come in after me and lay in bed with those girls for hours, I would let this go on for awhile and once I would yell  he would leave one girls room and enter the other, this went on almost every single night. I think that is something they miss so very much. To this day I have no idea what they talked about and I hope it is something they will never forget. Bubba was a family man, a completly differant person behind closed doors, He was a one of a kind person.





   Throughout the years we had so much fun pretty much growing up together, we would go to the races (atv) and he taught me how to ride them, well kind of. We taught each other alot about life, love and friendship. We planned on being together forever right from the start. Yes we had our share of fights who doesn't but it never lasted that long. I miss him with every thing I am, I still can't believe he is gone, I refuse to except this maybe i am just not ready to, not really sure if I ever will be able to. I have never been alone in my life, never had to deal with any kind of issues on my own. I am not really sure what to do with myself when I get so upset, he was the only one to ever pick me up and tell me things would be ok, he was the one that would help me work through what ever was going on he just made it better, now I am alone so confused, I am completly lost with out him. I love him with every single breath I take and will continue to do so for always and forever


I believe Bubba is up in heaven on the badest Harley ever made with HUGE smile upon his face flying free...

                           



       Bubba is and always will be the love of my life, I thank God everyday that I at least got to spend the time I did with him. Some people never know the TRUE meaning of love, luckily I had that in my life for 15 years, from the minute I met him. No one could ever replace what we had, and so many wish they had what we did, even if it was for only a minute. Bubba taught me how to be be the person I am today, he taught me to stand my own ground and what the true meaning of "love" is, he was my best friend and no one knew me like he did, he could finish my  sentences, he always knew what I was thinking and always could bring a smile to my face. I miss him more then anyone could ever imagin, the day he left me he took part of me with him yet left me with so much. I promised him that day that I would make him proud. It is just so hard to go on with out him, but someday (not soon enough) I will be in his arms again!!! When it is my time I know he will be there waiting for me with open arms and give me the biggest hug! I LOVE YOU my sweet angel. Luv,"B"


Bubba loved to go fishing, the 4 of us always went fishing and at times he would only take the girls to go fishing... He would "hang out" with his brothers and friends and go night fishing also... It was very relaxing to him, he could sit there for hours even if he didnt catch a thing.