Leroy Emack Found, (Lost No More)

Predictably and sadly, not alive.

The area where Leroy drowned is well known to me. It takes many lives, and the bodies are not often found right away. Despite what local conventional wisdom said, and despite the calling off of the search by local authorities, the FLDS went about the thankless task of finding the truly lost young man, and brought him home to be properly buried and give his family a way to honor his life. I am told Leroy worked tirelessly to help support his family during his father's conviction in Texas.

I think a campaign of letter writing should be begin immediately, to allow Michael to attend his faithful son's funeral. This is what a community does when one of it's sheep is lost, they go, and they find him.

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Someone we know (UPDATED - Michael Emack's Child)

The name is being withheld, but it's someone we know.

The Great Falls Tribune - "A handful of trucks and trailers with Utah and Idaho license plates at the Rainbow Dam boat launch could indicate search efforts for a canoeist who has been missing since Sunday have resumed.

A base is set up at the boat launch with an awning covering several men with handheld radios, cases of Gatorade and some snack foods.

Only one boat was visible between the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center and the boat launch, and one of the vehicles with Utah plates had a boat trailer on the back of it.

Two unidentified men at the boat launch base were operating a non-motorized canoe, and a truck pulled up around 11:30 a.m. with a four-pronged pole which is typically used to drag the bottom of a waterway.

The individuals at the base declined to comment, except to say that further information would need to come from the Cascade County Sheriff’s Office.

Capt. Ray Hitchcock of the Cascade County Sheriff’s Office declined to comment except to say that the county is not involved in the search.

Sheriff David Castle said the friends or family have 'every right' to hire a private search team.

Cascade County Search and Rescue called off the search on Tuesday.

The missing canoeist, who has not yet been identified, is a 21-year-old Utah man who was working in Great Falls."

Michael Emack is unable to be there to help.

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Towering Man, Early End, Manute Bol Dies

Manute Bol

Seven foot Seven inches tall. Manute played for ten years in the NBA.

The proximate cause of his death was Kidney Failure, brought on by Stevens–Johnson syndrome an auto immune disorder that can have behavioral causes or other more innocent origins. For instance, it can be brought on by ibuprofen usage.  In Manute's case it seemed to be kidney disease, which he treated with drugs, which then apparently brought about the SJS and then finally caused renal failure.

CNN - "Bol, who was listed at 7-feet-7 inches tall and 225 pounds, played for the Washington Bullets, Golden State Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers and Miami Heat in his 10-year career.

The native of war-torn Sudan was known during and after his career for his charity work for his home country.

'He was a wonderful person. He would always talk about the civil war going on in Sudan, because he was sending all of his money back to Sudan,' Charles Barkley, Bol's teammate on the 76ers and an NBA analyst for TNT, told CNN's Don Lemon. 'I can honestly say I never played with a better person,' Barkley said.

'He never forgot about the Sudan. He would talk to us about it all the time. ... The world is not a better place today; It's worse because we don't have Manute Bol,' he added.

In 2004 after he was nearly killed in an auto accident, Bol told Sports Illustrated, 'God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart, so I would look back.'

Bol donated his NBA earnings to charity, according to the article."

In his early days, Manute looked like a human spider, or an invader from another world, as tall and thin as he was.  The "other world" was the Sudan, he was a "Dinka" tribesman.

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Missing Missoula Man Chris Spurgin, found dead (UPDATED)

Following up on a story I posted earlier in the week.

The Missoulian - "Missoula County Sheriff Mike McMeekin said the man, identified as Chris Spurgin of Missoula, was located by ground search crews near the top of Lolo Peak at 9:20 a.m.

'They located his skis first, and then found his body nearby,' said McMeekin, who said the cause of Spurgin's death was as yet unclear.

Search and rescue crews from Missoula County, together with a helicopter search crew from Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, spent all day Thursday searching for the man, who was first reported missing on Wednesday night after he failed to show up at work (in the Radiology Department of St. Patrick's Hospital). Search and rescue crews from Ravalli County joined the effort on Friday."

Chris was 38 and single. To my knowledge, never married and had no children. His skis were found at the top of a ledge. He apparently took them off to look over the edge, and fell.

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Sheri Lynne Zimmerman Klein

She passed away Sunday leaving a newborn, a daughter approximately three years old and of course, her husband.

The Deseret News - "Sheri Lynne Zimmerman Klein 1976 ~ 2009 Sheri Lynne Zimmerman Klein, 33, of Lolo, Montana, died of complications (eclampsia) of childbirth, on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009, in Missoula. She was born to Scott and Beverly Burrup Zimmerman on Sunday, March 21, 1976 in Ithaca, New York. She graduated from Orem High School in 1994 and attended UVSC and BYU-Hawaii. She served an LDS mission to the Montana Billings Mission from 1997 to 1998. She married Eric James Klein, on August 7, 1999, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She graduated from Brigham Young University in April 2001, with a BA in English. She was a national management trainee with Sears, a call center manager with CitiCorp in Boise, and was currently working as a manager for the DirecTV Call Center in Missoula. Sheri loved to read and always wanted books for her birthday and Christmas. She had a wonderful sense of humor, a contagious laugh, and a winning smile. She loved visiting Zion and Glacier National Parks. She was active in the LDS church and was serving as a teacher in the Relief Society. She is survived by her husband Eric, Lolo, MT; and her two daughters Abbey Lynne Klein (age 3) and Ava Lily Klein (newborn); her parents; her brothers Steve Zimmerman (Julie), Cary, NC; Brent Zimmerman (Rita), Layton; Russell Zimmerman (Erin), Orem; her sisters Suzanne Harris (Gehrig), Columbus, GA; Andrea Paxman (Nathan), West Point, UT; Melissa Haglund (Marshall), Orem; and her in-laws Jim Klein and Janet Seethaler and family. A memorial open house will be held in Lolo on Thursday, September 3, 7-9 p.m., at the Lolo LDS Ward chapel, 6501 Mormon Creek Road. Funeral services will be held Saturday, September 5, 11:00 a.m., at the Ercanbrack LDS chapel, 2168 S. 140 W. Orem. A viewing will be held Friday evening from 6-8 p.m. at the Walker Family Mortuary, 646 E. 800 N., Orem, and Saturday morning prior to the services from 9:45-10:45 a.m. at the Ercanbrack chapel. Garden City Funeral Home and Walker Mortuary assisted the family with arrangements."

My wife used to work with Mrs. Klein, and my daughter works at the Hospital where she died and was on duty that day.

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