In Loving Memory of My Baby Brother Bill

I am not sure who I have talked to these last 30 hours and who I have not... it has all been such a blur. Yesterday, May 22, 2005 at 6:00 pm I received a phone call from my sister in law that there had been an accident involving my brother and nephew. Taja, Matt and I jumped in the car and raced to the local hospital. My nephew arrived shortly after we did via ambulance. We were then informed that my brother Bill was being flown somewhere from the crash site and destination was unknown until about 10 pm last night.

My little brother Bill had some how become distracted or fallen asleep at the wheel while driving back from Wayne's home in Williams. (Wayne is my other brother) Bill crossed the median and hit a stop sign... it his attempts to get back on the highway he over corrected. His car began skidding sideways and caught on something.. a rock or something... anyway, his VW bug rolled almost three times and at some point he was ejected from the car. They found him approx. 100 feet from the car and had to air lift him to a level 1 trama center. My nephew stayed buckled in his car seat and survived the crash with minor bruises and a few scratches... my brother didn't survive the accident. He was killed on impact and despite EMS efforts to bring him back he was officially pronounced dead in route to Flagstaff Medical Center. I will try to call those that I have numbers for and who knew Bill. It's been very rough on all of us, especially mom... no one should ever have to loose a child... her heart is broken. It is starting to sink in this evening, yet it's still all so unreal... like a nightmare...