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Steve Ebels
Steve Ebels Member Posts: 904
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Is there any way to archive this whole thread? I'd like to save it for Linda and give it to her someday.

Thanks to everyone's prayer and support, we made it through the funeral today.

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  • Steve Ebels
    Steve Ebels Member Posts: 904
    Prayers needed (SE)

    My best friend was killed in a hunting accident today. Our kids grew up together, our wives are best friends, we have shared all the joys and sorrows of life together for the last 25 years. And suddenly, he's gone. I don't have any words..... I just covet your prayers right now for me, my family and his wife, kids (4) and grandkids, left behind. I'm going over to their house now and I need some strength that can't find within myself.

    Thanks
  • John R. Hall
    John R. Hall Member Posts: 2,245
    Steve

    Your friend and his family are in our family prayers. There is never a good time to lose a loved one and this hurts even more in the holiday season. God bless.
  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,601
    Steve,

    I'm so sorry for your loss. I'll pray for you and for the family. I'm sorry.
    Retired and loving it.
  • Unknown
    Unknown Member
    I'm sorry, Steve

    We're here for you, too.

    Noel & Lisa
  • Alan R. Mercurio
    Alan R. Mercurio Member Posts: 588


    Steve, I'm so sorry to hear of that tragedy and the sorrow it brings. I promise, all of you will be in my prayers.

    Respectfully,
    Alan R. Mercurio
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Steve, I pray the Lord

    will strengthen and under gird you and your family and especially your ffirends loved ones. It is a real traumatic thing to say the least. We are here for you brother.
  • Murph'_4
    Murph'_4 Member Posts: 209
    Sorry for your loss........

    they will be in our prayers. May thier freinds and family bring them strength. God Bless.


    Murph'
  • jackchips_2
    jackchips_2 Member Posts: 1,337
    Very sorry

    to hear this news, Steve.

    Prayers from our family to all involved.
  • Paul Pollets
    Paul Pollets Member Posts: 3,663
    Sorry...

    Steve, very sorry for your loss. My prayers are with you...Paul

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  • Terry St.James_2
    Terry St.James_2 Member Posts: 102


    Praying hard for you. Hope you can get all the strength you can get,you'll need it. Give those kids a big hug from all of us here.
  • Floyd_5
    Floyd_5 Member Posts: 418
    Wow...

    such a loss is sooooo hard.....
    from your posts here, Steve I know that the love and strength of the Lord abides in you!!! You will be given strength and knowledge that is not of yourself, but from the creator himself.....

    Our prayers will be with you!!!!

    Amazing how that in the twinkling of an eye.....

    Floyd and Ann
  • Paul Mitchell
    Paul Mitchell Member Posts: 266
    You got them.



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  • Bill Nye
    Bill Nye Member Posts: 221
    Steve,

    I am so sorry....... may the Lord bless and keep you in your time of grief.
  • Dave Yates (PAH)
    Dave Yates (PAH) Member Posts: 2,162
    Ours too

    That's shocking & our hearts go out to everyone.

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  • ken D
    ken D Member Posts: 60


    "It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart." Ecclesiastes 7:2
  • David Sutton_3
    David Sutton_3 Member Posts: 160
    We are with you Steve

    my prayers and hope for peace of heart go to his family and you, David
  • Wayco Wayne
    Wayco Wayne Member Posts: 615
    You have our support

    and prayers too. WW & family

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  • Kevin_12
    Kevin_12 Member Posts: 31
    Prayer

    Jesus Loves you. I pray for your strenght.
  • steve gates
    steve gates Member Posts: 329


    May Gods love and grace be with you.

    His peace has no limit.

    If there is anything else we can do...
  • John@Reliable_5
    John@Reliable_5 Member Posts: 76
    So sorry Steve, prayers for all concerned

  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    So Sorry

    For your loss Steve, your in my thoughts.

    Scott

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  • joe_14
    joe_14 Member Posts: 138
    sorry


    for your loss,steve i share your pain.you and your family and your friends family will be in our prayers. reach out and touch the hand of the lord for he will guide you.

    god bless you all joe.g
  • BillW@honeywell
    BillW@honeywell Member Posts: 1,099
    Bad things happen to good people...

    Sorry for your loss, Steve. You have our condolences and prayers.
  • Starch
    Starch Member Posts: 102
    So sorry....

    ....to hear, Steve.

    You are in our thoughts and prayers. Stay strong, brother!

    John and Holly
  • Joannie
    Joannie Member Posts: 96
    Steve

    I'm heartbroken for you. You're in my prayers.
  • Steve Ebels
    Steve Ebels Member Posts: 904
    Thanks guys

    I know you are praying because there's no other way the family of my friend, or myself, could make it through this time of sorrow. Things are pretty rugged here........
    Thanks again and don't quit.
  • paul lessard_2
    paul lessard_2 Member Posts: 192
    What was his name

    what was he like? any fun stories?
    paul
  • Mark Eatherton1
    Mark Eatherton1 Member Posts: 2,542
    Our thoughts..

    are with you and yours...

    ME
  • Steve Ebels
    Steve Ebels Member Posts: 904
    I could write a book full of stories

    His name was Dave and if I could write a book it would probably read a lot like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer.

    If it walked, ran or flew, we hunted it. If it swam, we fished for it. If it had a motor in it, we took it apart to see if we could make it go faster. His four and my four were all born within a ten year span so we had a lot in common through them. Our wives would get together and bake stuff about once a week when the kids were little. Both of us lost our fathers when we were 20 something. We just had a tremendous amount in common as far as families and goals and beliefs. I will miss him, he was my soul mate.

    Here's a story, one of about a thousand I could tell.
    We were fishing for salmon in the Manistee river. Dave's brother Marv (who swam like a 50 pound rock) Dave, myself and my brother Mark (who could break any fishing tackle known to man) were all in a little 14ft rowboat tied up out in the river. That alone, was a recipe for mayhem all by itself. We had our lunch bags, tackle boxes, thermos bottles, extra poles for Mark, boat cushions, oars and nets all crammed in there with us. We also had 7 or 8 salmon that we had already caught, adding about 100 pounds of additional ballast. Like we needed that! The little boat only had about 3" of freeboard left by the time we all got in it to begin with. Dave hooked a whopper about 6 feet from the boat and the idiot fish dove directly under the boat and jumped out of the water on the other side. It was a dandy fish, 20# plus, and when it hit the end of Dave's line in mid air the inertia of it's jump flipped it neatly into the middle of the boat. Instant chaos ensued. The fish landed squarely in an open tackle box, impaling itself with enough hooks to turn itself into a torpedo shaped porcupine. Now, picture four, large, white, American males manuvering in a very confined space, trying to keep themselves from becoming "attached" to the writhing mass of tackle that the fish had become. Two of us were trying to occupy the real estate at each end of the little boat. It must have looked like some kind of an aboriginal mating dance. We were all shouting at each other to "priest him". The "priest" was our name for a hunk of 1" steel pipe used to administer the "last rites" to a fish. Dave finally found the "priest" amidst the tumult and proceeded to flail mightily at the still very fresh salmon. Junk and lunch and rods and hooks were flying everywhere. People fishing from shore were laughing hysterically at the bedlam going on in our little boat. Stuff was flying out into the water with every lash of the fishes tail and every swing of the "priest". A connection between the end of the "priest" and the fishes head was made at last and all grew calm once more. It was like being put in a blender full of fish hooks. By a miracle or the protection of our ever present gaurdian angels none of us were "hooked" ourselves and we laughed about it for months after that.

    Thanks for asking Paul, it felt good to tell that story.
  • Steve Ebels
    Steve Ebels Member Posts: 904
    How'd

    Your surgery turn out Mark?
  • Mark Eatherton1
    Mark Eatherton1 Member Posts: 2,542
    It went well...

    Thanks for asking. Wish there was something more we could do to help you through these trying times tho.

    ME
  • Mark Eatherton1
    Mark Eatherton1 Member Posts: 2,542
    I'm in tears...

    of laughter. I'm very sorry for your loss. He sounds like a prince of a guy. Keep up the good thoughts and great memories of him to get you through these tough times.

    Where's a camera when you need one...

    ME
  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,601
    You can bookmark it

    and give Linda the URL, Steve.
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  • leo g_63
    leo g_63 Member Posts: 4
    all i can

    add steve is that it sounds like your buddy lived life to the fullest, a thing that i am trying to impart to my children. my heart is with his and your families.

    leo g
  • Mark Mathys
    Mark Mathys Member Posts: 30


    Sorry to hear about your friend Steve. May God bring comfort his family and yours.
    Mark
  • nick z.
    nick z. Member Posts: 157
    So sorry for your loss...

    my thoughts are with you. I know its hard to think believe right now, but you will fell better sometime soon.
    Sounds like he was the kinda guy that would want you to celebrate his life, not mourn his death .Hang in there.
    God bless Nick
  • Riles_3
    Riles_3 Member Posts: 60
    Sorry

    for your loss.

    Steve, we will prayer for both of your families.

    What a tragedy. Be strong.

    Riles
  • John@Reliable_5
    John@Reliable_5 Member Posts: 76
    Steve, thanks for a good laugh to start the day with!

  • Mad Dog
    Mad Dog Member Posts: 2,595
    Ahhhh Man that really sucks....I am truly sorry

    I'll be praying for the family and you. There is no reason to be mistaken for an animal. Do they know what happened? - a sad day for your buddy and hunters. Mad Dog

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