Wayne never married - heart attack
Red hair in our family went from strawberry blonde to deep red. Wayne was a red head. Never married. The sweetest cousin ever. Anytime he got near my location or my sister’s locations, he would not call to say he was heading to one of our locations to visit. The doorbell would ring and he was the prize of the moment. I loved that about my cousin Wayne. However my sister Karen found him to be irritating. Judy was much like me..”OMG! Wayne, come on in and get me caught up on the family news!” That boy always was there to tell us his hilarious family stories and life experiences. Wayne had the most wonderful outlook on life. Sometimes he would stay a night. But he never left until we got all caught up with each other.
The day he died he was trying to get to the emergency room and he dropped dead in the hospital parking lot right near the emergency room doors. He was heading to his fathers bedside and never made it. Fortunately there were paramedics there that recognized his need and rushed to assist but it was too late; he died instantly where he was standing. When I got the call that Wayne died I thought they were talking about Wayne’s father, my Uncle Billy Wayne as Uncle Billy Wayne was at death’s door. It truly was a shock to me when I got a call about my cousin Wayne dying. At first I misunderstood and finally realized they were talking about my cousin, not my Uncle Billy Wayne who was at deaths door. Wayne was on his way to see his dad and never got there.
It was the coldest winter in northern Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana that year. The highways were paralyzed with sleet, snow, rain, black ice, etc. People were stranded everywhere on the highways. I had not talked to my Uncle Billy Wayne in awhile but through my mother, she kept me posted on his condition. I assumed all was being taken care of, his needs, etc. After that phone call to tell me about my cousin Wayne, I called my Uncle to tell him I loved him and was so sad about his son.
When he realized who I was, he said get in your car Charlotte and come be with me. I have been trying to reach you. I had not heard anything like that. So I got in my car within an hour and headed to Bunkie Louisiana from Fort Worth in that terrible ice storm! It took two days!
He was alone in that big beautiful home in Bunkie without his wife and son and he called me to be with him, both gone.
When I walked into his room there was a nurse getting ready to sedate him with morphine. He told that woman to get out of his house and never come back. Apparently she got the message as I never saw her again. I had on my boots, jeans, and layers of winter clothes when I got there. And what he did next just blew me away. He instructed me to come around that big bed he was in, lifted the covers and said come here. He snuggled me in real tight, pulled the covers up (with boots and all .. lol) and we began our final journey. We talked about everything..family, relationships (his sister was my mother), his wife and son, all of it. Stories I had never heard. He wanted me there to tell me the family secrets. For some reason throughout my life I was chosen to be the keeper of treasures for my mothers family and my daddy’s family. He knew that about me. At the time I did not understand my role, but through Uncle Billy Wayne, he told me why. It was so incredible the stories he passed on to me. What an honor! That one moment in time changed me into the woman I am today. I love and miss my aunt Terry, uncle Billy Wayne, and cousin Wayne and can’t wait to see them again! They were truly special to me. Charlotte Hardamon Coble (September 2019)
Red hair in our family went from strawberry blonde to deep red. Wayne was a red head. Never married. The sweetest cousin ever. Anytime he got near my location or my sister’s locations, he would not call to say he was heading to one of our locations to visit. The doorbell would ring and he was the prize of the moment. I loved that about my cousin Wayne. However my sister Karen found him to be irritating. Judy was much like me..”OMG! Wayne, come on in and get me caught up on the family news!” That boy always was there to tell us his hilarious family stories and life experiences. Wayne had the most wonderful outlook on life. Sometimes he would stay a night. But he never left until we got all caught up with each other.
The day he died he was trying to get to the emergency room and he dropped dead in the hospital parking lot right near the emergency room doors. He was heading to his fathers bedside and never made it. Fortunately there were paramedics there that recognized his need and rushed to assist but it was too late; he died instantly where he was standing. When I got the call that Wayne died I thought they were talking about Wayne’s father, my Uncle Billy Wayne as Uncle Billy Wayne was at death’s door. It truly was a shock to me when I got a call about my cousin Wayne dying. At first I misunderstood and finally realized they were talking about my cousin, not my Uncle Billy Wayne who was at deaths door. Wayne was on his way to see his dad and never got there.
It was the coldest winter in northern Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana that year. The highways were paralyzed with sleet, snow, rain, black ice, etc. People were stranded everywhere on the highways. I had not talked to my Uncle Billy Wayne in awhile but through my mother, she kept me posted on his condition. I assumed all was being taken care of, his needs, etc. After that phone call to tell me about my cousin Wayne, I called my Uncle to tell him I loved him and was so sad about his son.
When he realized who I was, he said get in your car Charlotte and come be with me. I have been trying to reach you. I had not heard anything like that. So I got in my car within an hour and headed to Bunkie Louisiana from Fort Worth in that terrible ice storm! It took two days!
He was alone in that big beautiful home in Bunkie without his wife and son and he called me to be with him, both gone.
When I walked into his room there was a nurse getting ready to sedate him with morphine. He told that woman to get out of his house and never come back. Apparently she got the message as I never saw her again. I had on my boots, jeans, and layers of winter clothes when I got there. And what he did next just blew me away. He instructed me to come around that big bed he was in, lifted the covers and said come here. He snuggled me in real tight, pulled the covers up (with boots and all .. lol) and we began our final journey. We talked about everything..family, relationships (his sister was my mother), his wife and son, all of it. Stories I had never heard. He wanted me there to tell me the family secrets. For some reason throughout my life I was chosen to be the keeper of treasures for my mothers family and my daddy’s family. He knew that about me. At the time I did not understand my role, but through Uncle Billy Wayne, he told me why. It was so incredible the stories he passed on to me. What an honor! That one moment in time changed me into the woman I am today. I love and miss my aunt Terry, uncle Billy Wayne, and cousin Wayne and can’t wait to see them again! They were truly special to me. Charlotte Hardamon Coble (September 2019)
Wayne never married - heart attack
Red hair in our family went from strawberry blonde to deep red. Wayne was a red head. Never married. The sweetest cousin ever. Anytime he got near my location or my sister’s locations, he would not call to say he was heading to one of our locations to visit. The doorbell would ring and he was the prize of the moment. I loved that about my cousin Wayne. However my sister Karen found him to be irritating. Judy was much like me..”OMG! Wayne, come on in and get me caught up on the family news!” That boy always was there to tell us his hilarious family stories and life experiences. Wayne had the most wonderful outlook on life. Sometimes he would stay a night. But he never left until we got all caught up with each other.
The day he died he was trying to get to the emergency room and he dropped dead in the hospital parking lot right near the emergency room doors. He was heading to his fathers bedside and never made it. Fortunately there were paramedics there that recognized his need and rushed to assist but it was too late; he died instantly where he was standing. When I got the call that Wayne died I thought they were talking about Wayne’s father, my Uncle Billy Wayne as Uncle Billy Wayne was at death’s door. It truly was a shock to me when I got a call about my cousin Wayne dying. At first I misunderstood and finally realized they were talking about my cousin, not my Uncle Billy Wayne who was at deaths door. Wayne was on his way to see his dad and never got there.
It was the coldest winter in northern Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana that year. The highways were paralyzed with sleet, snow, rain, black ice, etc. People were stranded everywhere on the highways. I had not talked to my Uncle Billy Wayne in awhile but through my mother, she kept me posted on his condition. I assumed all was being taken care of, his needs, etc. After that phone call to tell me about my cousin Wayne, I called my Uncle to tell him I loved him and was so sad about his son.
When he realized who I was, he said get in your car Charlotte and come be with me. I have been trying to reach you. I had not heard anything like that. So I got in my car within an hour and headed to Bunkie Louisiana from Fort Worth in that terrible ice storm! It took two days!
He was alone in that big beautiful home in Bunkie without his wife and son and he called me to be with him, both gone.
When I walked into his room there was a nurse getting ready to sedate him with morphine. He told that woman to get out of his house and never come back. Apparently she got the message as I never saw her again. I had on my boots, jeans, and layers of winter clothes when I got there. And what he did next just blew me away. He instructed me to come around that big bed he was in, lifted the covers and said come here. He snuggled me in real tight, pulled the covers up (with boots and all .. lol) and we began our final journey. We talked about everything..family, relationships (his sister was my mother), his wife and son, all of it. Stories I had never heard. He wanted me there to tell me the family secrets. For some reason throughout my life I was chosen to be the keeper of treasures for my mothers family and my daddy’s family. He knew that about me. At the time I did not understand my role, but through Uncle Billy Wayne, he told me why. It was so incredible the stories he passed on to me. What an honor! That one moment in time changed me into the woman I am today. I love and miss my aunt Terry, uncle Billy Wayne, and cousin Wayne and can’t wait to see them again! They were truly special to me. Charlotte Hardamon Coble (September 2019)
Red hair in our family went from strawberry blonde to deep red. Wayne was a red head. Never married. The sweetest cousin ever. Anytime he got near my location or my sister’s locations, he would not call to say he was heading to one of our locations to visit. The doorbell would ring and he was the prize of the moment. I loved that about my cousin Wayne. However my sister Karen found him to be irritating. Judy was much like me..”OMG! Wayne, come on in and get me caught up on the family news!” That boy always was there to tell us his hilarious family stories and life experiences. Wayne had the most wonderful outlook on life. Sometimes he would stay a night. But he never left until we got all caught up with each other.
The day he died he was trying to get to the emergency room and he dropped dead in the hospital parking lot right near the emergency room doors. He was heading to his fathers bedside and never made it. Fortunately there were paramedics there that recognized his need and rushed to assist but it was too late; he died instantly where he was standing. When I got the call that Wayne died I thought they were talking about Wayne’s father, my Uncle Billy Wayne as Uncle Billy Wayne was at death’s door. It truly was a shock to me when I got a call about my cousin Wayne dying. At first I misunderstood and finally realized they were talking about my cousin, not my Uncle Billy Wayne who was at deaths door. Wayne was on his way to see his dad and never got there.
It was the coldest winter in northern Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana that year. The highways were paralyzed with sleet, snow, rain, black ice, etc. People were stranded everywhere on the highways. I had not talked to my Uncle Billy Wayne in awhile but through my mother, she kept me posted on his condition. I assumed all was being taken care of, his needs, etc. After that phone call to tell me about my cousin Wayne, I called my Uncle to tell him I loved him and was so sad about his son.
When he realized who I was, he said get in your car Charlotte and come be with me. I have been trying to reach you. I had not heard anything like that. So I got in my car within an hour and headed to Bunkie Louisiana from Fort Worth in that terrible ice storm! It took two days!
He was alone in that big beautiful home in Bunkie without his wife and son and he called me to be with him, both gone.
When I walked into his room there was a nurse getting ready to sedate him with morphine. He told that woman to get out of his house and never come back. Apparently she got the message as I never saw her again. I had on my boots, jeans, and layers of winter clothes when I got there. And what he did next just blew me away. He instructed me to come around that big bed he was in, lifted the covers and said come here. He snuggled me in real tight, pulled the covers up (with boots and all .. lol) and we began our final journey. We talked about everything..family, relationships (his sister was my mother), his wife and son, all of it. Stories I had never heard. He wanted me there to tell me the family secrets. For some reason throughout my life I was chosen to be the keeper of treasures for my mothers family and my daddy’s family. He knew that about me. At the time I did not understand my role, but through Uncle Billy Wayne, he told me why. It was so incredible the stories he passed on to me. What an honor! That one moment in time changed me into the woman I am today. I love and miss my aunt Terry, uncle Billy Wayne, and cousin Wayne and can’t wait to see them again! They were truly special to me. Charlotte Hardamon Coble (September 2019)
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