Erich Schwer Shares Tribute to Late Dad as Bachelor Nation Rallies Around Him After Gabby Windey Hometown Date
usmagazine.comTime will tell if Erich Schwer is The One for Gabby Windey, but they’ll always have his special hometown date.The 29-year-old real estate analyst introduced the 31-year-old Bachelorette to his father, Allan Schwer, during the Monday, August 22, episode of the ABC series.
The episode aired more than one month after Allan died on July 6 following a three-year battle with cancer.Erich shared a new tribute to his dad, which included a throwback photo, a picture of his memorial card and his wedding ring, on Monday.
He captioned the post with a red heart emoji.Co-lead Rachel Recchia sent love via the comments section, writing, “Thank you for sharing this moment with us all, sending your family love.”Erich and his family, including his mother, Donna Schwer, and his sister, Elise Schwer, were candid with Gabby about Allan’s health struggles on Monday’s episode.“He was legitimately supposed to die, like, three times,” Erich told Gabby. “And it was like, really, really hard to come to terms with and I actually came [to this spot] with him when he was talking about, like, how long — he thought he had a year.
And he was like, ‘You take care of your mother.’ And that was the first time that I, like, really cried from all that. It’s been a journey.
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