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My Uncle Kelly was a local truck driver in Southern Illinois, and died in a wreck Tuesday morning. He was 40, only 5 years older than me. We pretty much grew up together. While he wasn't a competitive shooter, he did enjoy hunting and fishing.
We are awaiting the different test results to see if it was mechanical failure of the truck, if he had a heart attack or something, or what. The services are this Sunday.
It's getting to the point that I hate the summertime. I've now lost 4 members of my immediate family (Grandfather 2004, Mother 2007, Grandmother 2008) in the last 5 years, all in the summer time.
What makes this one a little harder than the others, is there was no warning with this one. With Gramma, Grampa and Mom... they had bad health problems, and we knew it was coming.
I hate truck wrecks.
The funeral home website is http://www.stasigrov...=kelly-phillips
Frank
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Kelly Phillips - 40 Way to young
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Posted 16 July 2009 - 04:20 AM
Heard this said about me one time about 12 years ago... back when I was one of the lean and mean (I was the head instructor for a unit field exercise).
Young LCpl: "Hey Gunny... how come we're just standing around... we were supposed to start 20 minutes ago?
Company GySgt: "The war doesn't start until Cpl Wolverton's had his coffee."
Young LCpl: "Hey Gunny... how come we're just standing around... we were supposed to start 20 minutes ago?
Company GySgt: "The war doesn't start until Cpl Wolverton's had his coffee."
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Posted 16 July 2009 - 04:31 AM
Frank, sorry to hear about your family's losses.
Take care,
Mike
Take care,
Mike
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Posted 16 July 2009 - 07:58 AM
That is saddening every time for sure, and it is certainly true when one is so young.
Sorry for your losses,
Phil
Sorry for your losses,
Phil
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Enjoy watching people with passion perform their craft.
Enjoy watching people with passion perform their craft.
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Posted 21 July 2009 - 03:23 AM
Well, the funeral was yesterday.
We also found out the cause of death. Seat belt strangulation. The DOT told us it was one of those cases where the seat belt killed him, but even if he hadn't been wearing his seat belt, the way the truck rolled, he would have been bounced around the truck or ejected and 99.9% chance he would have died from that as well.
Basically a lose lose situation.
It'll be a couple weeks until we find out the mechanical tests on the truck. It turns out that he had been telling his boss for two months that the truck was junk, and needed to be repaired.
If this is the case, and something did break... well, lets put it this way... I'm not in a good mood right now.
Frank
We also found out the cause of death. Seat belt strangulation. The DOT told us it was one of those cases where the seat belt killed him, but even if he hadn't been wearing his seat belt, the way the truck rolled, he would have been bounced around the truck or ejected and 99.9% chance he would have died from that as well.
Basically a lose lose situation.
It'll be a couple weeks until we find out the mechanical tests on the truck. It turns out that he had been telling his boss for two months that the truck was junk, and needed to be repaired.
If this is the case, and something did break... well, lets put it this way... I'm not in a good mood right now.
Frank
Heard this said about me one time about 12 years ago... back when I was one of the lean and mean (I was the head instructor for a unit field exercise).
Young LCpl: "Hey Gunny... how come we're just standing around... we were supposed to start 20 minutes ago?
Company GySgt: "The war doesn't start until Cpl Wolverton's had his coffee."
Young LCpl: "Hey Gunny... how come we're just standing around... we were supposed to start 20 minutes ago?
Company GySgt: "The war doesn't start until Cpl Wolverton's had his coffee."
Posted 02 August 2009 - 01:07 PM
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Posted 21 August 2009 - 04:24 PM
I can only say what a tragedy for you and the family..I am so very sorry and our thoughts and prayers are with all of you
Cheryl
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"I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry, because, Come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?" :)
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