Memorial Game Day. August 23, 2009

On August 23rd, All Fun & Games will host a Memorial Game Day to celebrate the life of co-founder Bobbie McRae. In true Bobbie style, this event will be full of laughter, fun, friends, and good times. Games and tournaments will be available in the game room, raffles for game-related prizes will be conducted throughout the day, and plenty of food and drinks will be available for all participants.
Learn more about Bobbie's life.

Raffles and Prizes. All Day

Raffles will be held approximately every 20 minutes throughout the Game Day. The grand prize drawing (a Melissa and Doug train set), will be held at 3:00PM. All prizes were generously donated by game companies and by All Fun and Games. Profits from the raffle will be donated to melanoma charities and to a college fund for Bobbie's son, Killian. View charities here. You must be present to win prizes.

Magic: the Gathering Tournament. 1:00pm

Many of you know that Bobbie loved playing Magic the Gathering. A sealed deck Magic tournament will be held with Magic related prizes (such as play-mats, foil promos, etc). Profits from the tournament will be donated to melanoma charities and to a college fund for Bobbie's son, Killian. View charities here. Fee for the Sealed deck is $30 and will begin at 1:00PM.

Spades and Jigsaw Puzzles. All Day

Bobbie's other gaming passions included playing Spades and doing jigsaw puzzles. Several tables will be set aside for Spades. Whether you are a Spades pro, or someone wanting to learn for the first time, please come and participate in one of Bobbie's favorite games. There will also be tables available for jigsaw puzzle assembly. Please stop by, put a few jigsaw puzzle pieces into place and share a nice chat.

Donations

All Fun and Games will be providing food in the form of heavy hors d’oeuvres, snacks and drinks. If you’d like to contribute something in the way of food to share, please let us know so we can plan accordingly.

Profits from the Gameday will go towards the following charities:

Melanoma Research Foundation

Children's Melanoma Prevention Foundation

Melanoma Support and Education Foundation

The Noreen O'Neill Foundation for Melanoma Research

Killian McRae's College Fund. E-mail us for donation information.

About Bobbie

Bobbie was born in Maine in June of 1971, but spent most of her formative years through college in Oklahoma and New York. She abandoned her college education in 1994 to move to North Carolina to help her mother care for her ill older sister, Kelly, suffering from Scleroderma. When Kelly passed in 1998, it was Bobbie’s intention to move to San Diego, CA. However, she met Paul McRae in 1996 and they were married in 2000 remaining in Raleigh, NC for the remainder of her life.

Bobbie spent many of her adult years in the employ of Blockbuster Video and joined the gaming industry in 2000 after her first exposure to it, via Magic: the Gathering, in 1997. Bobbie and Paul entered a business partnership in 2000 with Games Galore which led to the eventual birth of All Fun & Games in 2003. Bobbie’s passions outside of gaming included an undying love for movies, animals, craftwork and, beginning in 2004 with his birth, her son Killian. He immediately became the center of her universe and no stronger love will ever be known.

In 2006, Bobbie was diagnosed with malignant metastatic melanoma cancer which she fought with remarkable positivity through the remainder of her life. She saw her own 38th birthday and her son’s 5th within the months before she passed. She is survived by her mother, Toni Morrill, husband, Paul McRae, and son, Killian McRae. Her known love for animals obligates us to list her other “children” as well, her dogs Shamu and Sophie.

In addition to her other legacies, All Fun & Games was something that she was forever proud of and bragged about to everyone she met. It is our honor to count her as one of our key founders and we wish her the best in whatever the afterlife may hold, for ours will be forever changed by the time that we had with her.