CountryBoy19
Grandmaster
Update: 1/11/14
I planned to give this to the family around Christmas time but we still had a significant amount of donations that were outstanding so I decided to wait. I've received a few of those stragglers and also added some new pledges/donations in the meantime. My brother is much closer to the family than I am (Abbey, the widow, attended his recent wedding to put it in perspective) so I sent the donations with him so he could personally give them to her. The final amount was $455. We still had several people that PMed me asking for an address to send money to but never did. I never added them to the list because they didn't tell me how much they were donating. I think if we would have collected all that money as well we could have come close to $1000 for the family. But $455 is still a significant amount of money. Because my brother is going to personally give it to her I kept the money in it's original form. I.E. if you gave me cash FTF, I sent that cash on to the family; I wrote a personal check for all of the paypal donations plus my contribution.
I want to thank EVERYBODY for the donations, well-wishes, and prayers for the family. They will certainly help!!!
It was proposed by remauto1187 in this thread: https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/great-outdoors/319931-careful-out-there.html to take up a collection for the widow and unborn child of fallen IN deerhunter Tim Bowers.
For those that don't know Tim made a fatal slip-up while climbing into his treestand Saturday November 2nd. He fell, crushing 3 vertebrae in his neck paralyzing him instantly. He lay in the wood for 5 hours unable to move until his father and father-in-law found him after his wife of only 3 months called them and told them he hadn't returned home from hunting. His progrnosis was pretty bleak. Best case scenario he would survive the surgery to fuse his crushed vertabrae and would remain in a wheelchair the rest of his life unable to move. Worse options included living out his life on a ventilator in a hospital bed. He decided that was no way to live and he self-elected to remove the ventilator that was keeping him alive. He died 5 hours later surrounded by 75 friends and family members to include his newlywed wife and their unborn child.
That is a brief summary, for a more heart-wrenching news article look here: Tim Bowers: Parents of paralyzed Indiana hunter speak out about his decision to die | Mail Online
I know Tim personally, he is only a few years older than me, my mom works with his dad, and we went to the same high-school. I know other INGO members also knew Tim, and one INGO member specifically is a relative of his widow Abbey.
His family has set up an education fund for his unborn son and I would like to take up a collection for that fund. As a biased party I want to be clear that the idea for the collection came from a person that AFAIK does not know Tim or his family. I only wish to step out there and facilitate the collection idea that was proposed by others. I will track donations in this thread and present a check to the family.
Acceptable forms of donation would be cash (if we can meet FTF), check, MO, or paypal (least preferred). I really prefer not to have paypal because I cannot get the money from paypal into my account without adding my bank account which I will not do for security reasons. Not to mention Paypal gets a cut of the funds. If paypal is the only way you are willing to donate I won't turn it down.
If you wish to donate please reply stating so and I will rep you with my mailing address and/or paypal info. If I run out of rep I will have to PM my info to you. When you send payment please include your username in your paypal info or check etc for book-keeping purposes. If you feel more comfortable you can make checks payable to "Baby Bowers Education Fund" and your check will be forwarded with the rest of the donations to the family.
My method for tracking donations in this thread will be
$XX Username for pledged amount, when I receive that amount I will turn the red text to green.
I planned to give this to the family around Christmas time but we still had a significant amount of donations that were outstanding so I decided to wait. I've received a few of those stragglers and also added some new pledges/donations in the meantime. My brother is much closer to the family than I am (Abbey, the widow, attended his recent wedding to put it in perspective) so I sent the donations with him so he could personally give them to her. The final amount was $455. We still had several people that PMed me asking for an address to send money to but never did. I never added them to the list because they didn't tell me how much they were donating. I think if we would have collected all that money as well we could have come close to $1000 for the family. But $455 is still a significant amount of money. Because my brother is going to personally give it to her I kept the money in it's original form. I.E. if you gave me cash FTF, I sent that cash on to the family; I wrote a personal check for all of the paypal donations plus my contribution.
I want to thank EVERYBODY for the donations, well-wishes, and prayers for the family. They will certainly help!!!
It was proposed by remauto1187 in this thread: https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/great-outdoors/319931-careful-out-there.html to take up a collection for the widow and unborn child of fallen IN deerhunter Tim Bowers.
For those that don't know Tim made a fatal slip-up while climbing into his treestand Saturday November 2nd. He fell, crushing 3 vertebrae in his neck paralyzing him instantly. He lay in the wood for 5 hours unable to move until his father and father-in-law found him after his wife of only 3 months called them and told them he hadn't returned home from hunting. His progrnosis was pretty bleak. Best case scenario he would survive the surgery to fuse his crushed vertabrae and would remain in a wheelchair the rest of his life unable to move. Worse options included living out his life on a ventilator in a hospital bed. He decided that was no way to live and he self-elected to remove the ventilator that was keeping him alive. He died 5 hours later surrounded by 75 friends and family members to include his newlywed wife and their unborn child.
That is a brief summary, for a more heart-wrenching news article look here: Tim Bowers: Parents of paralyzed Indiana hunter speak out about his decision to die | Mail Online
I know Tim personally, he is only a few years older than me, my mom works with his dad, and we went to the same high-school. I know other INGO members also knew Tim, and one INGO member specifically is a relative of his widow Abbey.
His family has set up an education fund for his unborn son and I would like to take up a collection for that fund. As a biased party I want to be clear that the idea for the collection came from a person that AFAIK does not know Tim or his family. I only wish to step out there and facilitate the collection idea that was proposed by others. I will track donations in this thread and present a check to the family.
Acceptable forms of donation would be cash (if we can meet FTF), check, MO, or paypal (least preferred). I really prefer not to have paypal because I cannot get the money from paypal into my account without adding my bank account which I will not do for security reasons. Not to mention Paypal gets a cut of the funds. If paypal is the only way you are willing to donate I won't turn it down.
If you wish to donate please reply stating so and I will rep you with my mailing address and/or paypal info. If I run out of rep I will have to PM my info to you. When you send payment please include your username in your paypal info or check etc for book-keeping purposes. If you feel more comfortable you can make checks payable to "Baby Bowers Education Fund" and your check will be forwarded with the rest of the donations to the family.
My method for tracking donations in this thread will be
$XX Username for pledged amount, when I receive that amount I will turn the red text to green.
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I was not an active member when this happened, but put me down for $50. I can do paypal or check.
