Robert Clowers Jr.

Robert Emory Clowers, Jr. was born in Mobile, Alabama on August 26, 1957. He was not the first born, but he was the first-born son of Robert Emory Sr. and Cora Clowers. Robert was one of seven siblings. He departed his life on Sunday, March 26, 2023, at the age of 66. By his side, at the time of his passing, was his life partner, Joyce Wright.

“Junior,” as he was known, was always an inquisitive child. He would question you, almost to the point of exasperation! Because of his desire to better know the people and things around him, it is no wonder that at an early age, Junior accepted the teachings of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Chris. And the entire Clowers family was baptized by Dr. Clyde Adams, at Union Baptist Church, of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Junior continued to wax strong in the Lord, and in his position in our family, as the “number one Son.” This continued, until he became a teenager. As teen males are concerned, he began to, as our elders would say, “smelling himself.” As our father, his namesake, took on a job that could support such a large family as ours, he began working for General Motors Corporation, in Defiance, Ohio. But our father’s job required him to commute 102 miles, round trip, every day. This went on for a number of years, until that daily trek began to be too taxing on our father. And so, he bought a small trailer, and stayed in Defiance, Ohio during the week, and would only come home on the weekends.

This was Junior’s opening. He thought that in the absence of “Daddy,” he could assert into a “grown-man.” But let me tell you: he was sadly mistaken! This all came to a head in 1972. In October of that year, our paternal grandfather, in Georgia, passed away. It was then that our parents decided that in order to save Junior from these streets, they had to love him enough to let him go; to send him away, to live with and under our grandmother, Maime Clowers, who we affectionately called “Big Mama.” Though she was only four feet, NOTHING!

This changed Junior. No longer was he that “smart-mouth” teenager, smelling himself. He learned to be a respectful, respectable young man. And after his graduation from Jones County High School of Gray, Georgia in 1975, he immediately enlisted into the United States Army. A commitment he stayed with for 22 years. After retiring from the military, he joined the ranks of the company Securitas. Junior took advantage of his company’s benefit of supporting employees wanting to further their education, and attended the University of Maryland, receiving a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in History. He parlayed this degree into eventually becoming the Regional Director for security and training, for Securitas’ Mid-Atlantic region. Again, working until his retirement just two years ago. Somewhere, in all of these accomplishments, he also managed to reach 33 degrees of knowledge in Free Masonry.

Junior enjoyed his brief time of retirement, with his constant friend and fiance’, Joyce Wright. Staying with him until cancer took his last breath. My brother, Robert Emory Clowers, Jr., leaves to mourn his loss, his sisters Doris Clowers, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Cynthia Clowers, of Indianapolis, Indiana, Rochelle Clowers, of Dallas, Texas, and Angela(Desmond) Posey, of Appleton, Wisconsin. His brothers, Michael (Shonetta) Clowers, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Gregory Clowers, of Appleton, Wisconsin. His first wife Luretia “Ricky” Kurtz, the mother of his children: Rodney Clowers, and Ryan Clowers, all of Charlotte, North Carolina. His daughter, Ashley Pearson, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, his second wife, Rosa Clowers, of Washington, D.C., and again his fiancé, Joyce Wright, of Washington, D.C.

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