He went in the hospital thursday to have two stints put in his leg . Thursday night or friday morning his EKG showed a slight heart attack so the doctors at UVA wanted him to stay in a few more day for tests . They found he had most likely been haveing slight unnoticable heart attacks for the last couple months and that an artery in his heart was 90% blocked . So today they went in to put a stint there and when they touched it he went into arrest and were unable to revive him !
He is survived by a wife , 2 sons , 2 daughters , 2 exwives , several grandchildren , two step children and a step son in law !
He was a retired code welder by trade and had dabbled in running a game preserve when he retired in his mid 50's . For the last 10 or so years he had shot skeet atleast 4 times a week . I used to tease him that now his job was as a shooter . Since he liked shooting skeet , trap , silhouettes , schuetzen , BPCR , air rifles , contemporary muzzle loaders and handguns !
He and I spent many days together shooting over the last 5 years . I wish I had known him earlier in life !
A picture from last month when he another friend and I shot Sporting Clays .
Rest in peace old friend you'll surely be missed
