Remembering Tim Haley

Pack 3 family --

Please forward this message to your den families, and we will have a message coming out this afternoon for you to forward as well about our Fall Recruitment drive next Thursday.

Tim Haley and his wife Renee were often at Pack events with their sons (two in Cubs, Brandon and Tristan, and the younger boy Devon); they came out to Cub Day Camp last June and Tim had been part of the last two years' whitewater trips down to West Virgina.

Tim died on Tuesday after falling ill on a training exercise for his SWAT team with the Columbus Police. More of that story can be found here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26440428/

His police department colleagues in Columbus and from all over Ohio are working on arrangements for the funeral service, with the following details from Schoedinger Funeral Home:

Remembering
Timothy A. Haley

Visitation
September 2, 2008 2-4pm and 6-8pm

Visitation Location
Schoedinger - East - Chapel

Service
Date Time
September 3, 2008 11:00am

Service Location
Vineyard Church of Columbus
6000 Cooper Road Westerville, Ohio

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We will send a "Cub Scout blue & gold" wreath to the funeral services on behalf of Tim's Scouting family, and are working to stay in touch with what family needs for support and service -- which are largely well in hand right now, but we will continue to work on this kind of support as the school and Scouting year continues.

Here’s a link to Lifeline of Ohio, which is an independent, non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote and coordinate the donation of human organs and tissue for transplantation in 38 Ohio counties, including Licking and Franklin. Since Tim was an organ donor, his fellow den parents believe that Renee (Tim's wife) would appreciate a monetary donation in his honor to this organization.
http://www.lifelineofohio.org/contact/makedonation.aspx

If you'd like to send your donations to the Pack, the Pack will pass a combined donation to Lifeline of Ohio.

Other updates about the family fund and support already in the works can be found at:

http://www.odmp.org/officer/19533-police-officer-timothy-a.-haley

http://www.columbuspolice.org/default.htm

Yours in Scouting,
Jeff Gill
http://granvillepack3.blogspot.com