We thought we were going to spend the rest of our lives with them and that's not what happened and we were dealt a really hard hand. We're never going to leave Bob and Beth behind forget about them. “But we're in love and I say all the time, ‘Beth, I'm glad you provided me with Francie because that wasn't on my list.’”Īdds Francie: “We're both still grieving. “We honor those dates and we don't feel guilty, but it's kind of strange,” Duane said. They plan to return every year to mark the date. Duane shared how Beth used to love tubing down the Platte River in Colorado every Father’s Day, so this year he, his children and Francie visited the spot on June 26, the anniversary of her death. While the couple have found love, they continue to grieve their loved ones.
The two are still deciding on a date and debating how big the ceremony will be, with Duane eager for a “huge” wedding attended by his fans. We were able to walk alongside each other through the pain and heartbreak and it brought us together in this amazing way.”ĭuane wasted no time proposing, even getting down on one knee. “We could cry with each other and talk about what we were feeling. “We understood the pain that the other one was feeling and those tough days and moments, we helped each other stand up,” Francie adds. The two quickly bonded over their grief and Duane says he, “knew right away this was love.” “She was screaming, ‘I told you!’”ĭuane eventually asked her out and she replied, “Yeah, if you go to church.” While initially brushing off Duane’s advances, the emotional, tear-filled church service culminated in the two holding hands and Duane declaring, “Gotcha!”įrancie is a former rancher and hunter, so Duane says there “couldn’t have been a better pick that God picked” for him.
“As soon as I hung up the phone, I called my girlfriend and was like, ‘Are you sitting down right now because you're not going to believe who I just talked to,’” Francie says. It was during that call the two realized they were both grieving their partners. Francie heard the voicemail and called back, initially unaware she was talking to the television star until he mentioned he was Dog the Bounty Hunter.
Fast forward six months and Duane, presumably needing an excavator, called Bob’s phone not knowing he had died.
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