Story about Kirk

I totally forgot to send this story out to the email list...a couple of you have already heard it.

So, the week after the funeral I was hanging out with the Lawrences. Debbie answered the door in Kirk's robe. She was clearly still pretty upset, but she's getting by. Deb, Tim and I sat and talked for a long time about everything. Including how Kirk got to Louisville.

After Kirk passed in the hospice, he stayed in the room with us for a little while. But after that he gets moved to a local funeral home to be embalmed. The funeral home contacts Delta and reserves a casket slot on a plane capable of shipping organs/bodies. (I presume with temperature controlled luggage compartment? No idea.) Then, when the plane arrives in Louisville, the funeral home there is waiting to receive him and gussy him up for the viewing.

Or rather that's how it's supposed to happen...

Somehow someone wrote down that Kirk was to be shipped on that Tuesday. Not that his funeral was Tuesday and worse his viewing was Monday night. The Lawrences are already in Louisville when they find this out. Tim's ready to turn right around to go back and load Kirk in the back of the explorer. They get on the phone with the Atlanta funeral home, who still has him, and straighten everything out. However, there are no more available casket flights to Lousiville until after Tuesday.

I can only assume that a select few people have received The Thunder from Deb as they must have on the phone that day. Suffice it to say the funeral home called everyone they could call and did anything they could do to get Kirk to Kentucky. The solution they came up with was they could ship him to Lexington on Monday, and coordinated with a Lexington funeral home to receive him and drive him to Louisville. He got there in time, looked My-T Sharp, and no one was the wiser.

However the moral of the story, as Paul and I were quick to notice, is that even in his final hour...Kirk had to bum a ride off somebody. ; )

Hope you guys are doing well. No word on these babies yet, but party plans are coming together. I have a list of 'assignments' for you guys which I'll distribute when the time comes.

Oh! And our Tallahassee Roller Girls gave a tribute to Kirk recently at their first home bout. Congrats to them on their win. Pictures/video to come.

-John