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| Name | Joshua PACK [1, 2] | |
| Gender | Male | |
| HIST | 5 receive scholarships named in memory of classmate ROBERT J. BAKER / THE CLARENDON SUN 5 receive scholarships named in memory of classmate The family of Michael Cody Hall - Conner, Wesley, Joshua and Tracie Pack - stands on stage as scholarships are presented to five Laurence Manning Academy students in his memory. The Rev. Arthur Sharp spoke at the 2013 Awards Night for the Pack family. BY SHARRON HALEY sharron@theitem-clarendonsun.com MANNING - Laurence Manning Academy's 2013 Senior Awards Night was a joyous night for more than 75 graduates and their families, but for one family in the audience, the night was bittersweet. Instead of watching two sons walk across the stage, the Pack family could only watch as one son, Conner Wesley Pack, attended Awards Night. Pack's stepbrother, Cody Michael Hall, a member of the Class of 2013, was killed along with two other LMA students in a vehicle accident on the Old Georgetown Road in the early morning hours of Oct. 3, 2010. On May 16, 2013, Tracie Pack, her husband Wesley, and children Joshua and Conner presented "The Cody Michael Hall Scholarship" to five members of Cody's former class: Mikayla Marie Swygert, Jonathan Andrew Miles, Nicole Elisabeth Sousa, William Van Richardson Jr., and Parker Ashton Reynolds. The Packs' minister, the Rev. Arthur Sharp, spoke on behalf of the Pack family and asked the graduates, "How is my future dependent on the choices I made today?" "This is how his faith in God started," he told them. "He was proud to be a Swampcat." Sharp referenced the book, titled "A Few More Yards," that comprises two assignments Hall wrote for his 10th-grade English teacher, Inger S. Walker, along with dozens of photographs of Hall growing up, at school, with friends and enjoying life. Proceeds from the book helped fund the five $500 scholarships that were presented at awards night. The second assignment in the book is titled "The Life of Cody Hall." The paper had been graded by Walker, but had not been returned to the teenager before his death. Walker read the essay at his funeral. In the essay, Hall projects his possible future - about graduating from school and becoming an emergency room doctor, who becomes bored with medicine, becomes a lawyer for "famous people" and makes his first billion dollars. Marriage, children and a trip to Africa also figure in the paper. During the trip, Hall writes, a lion bites him on the arm, but he fights back and kills it. With the lion's body lying at his feet, Hall watches elephants running toward him. The last line in the essay reads "Then, everything was black, and I met Jesus." Those words are immortalized on Hall's tombstone - And Then I Met Jesus. Tracie Pack says she has no doubts about where her son is. "He's in heaven looking down on us today," she said. "He found Jesus here and wasn't afraid to talk about his faith." After the Awards Night ceremony, Pack said she felt complete. "It wasn't nearly as bad as I imagined it would be," she said. "I feel good. I'm glad that we could do this for this particular class." Even though her son was killed nearly three years ago, the class has kept his memory alive, she added. "He has always been a part of this class," she said. "Through these scholarships we are able to keep his memory alive and he can live on through them." Posted in Clarendon sun on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 [2] | |
| HIST | 5 receive scholarships named in memory of classmate ROBERT J. BAKER / THE CLARENDON SUN 5 receive scholarships named in memory of classmate The family of Michael Cody Hall - Conner, Wesley, Joshua and Tracie Pack - stands on stage as scholarships are presented to five Laurence Manning Academy students in his memory. The Rev. Arthur Sharp spoke at the 2013 Awards Night for the Pack family. BY SHARRON HALEY sharron@theitem-clarendonsun.com MANNING - Laurence Manning Academy's 2013 Senior Awards Night was a joyous night for more than 75 graduates and their families, but for one family in the audience, the night was bittersweet. Instead of watching two sons walk across the stage, the Pack family could only watch as one son, Conner Wesley Pack, attended Awards Night. Pack's stepbrother, Cody Michael Hall, a member of the Class of 2013, was killed along with two other LMA students in a vehicle accident on the Old Georgetown Road in the early morning hours of Oct. 3, 2010. On May 16, 2013, Tracie Pack, her husband Wesley, and children Joshua and Conner presented "The Cody Michael Hall Scholarship" to five members of Cody's former class: Mikayla Marie Swygert, Jonathan Andrew Miles, Nicole Elisabeth Sousa, William Van Richardson Jr., and Parker Ashton Reynolds. The Packs' minister, the Rev. Arthur Sharp, spoke on behalf of the Pack family and asked the graduates, "How is my future dependent on the choices I made today?" "This is how his faith in God started," he told them. "He was proud to be a Swampcat." Sharp referenced the book, titled "A Few More Yards," that comprises two assignments Hall wrote for his 10th-grade English teacher, Inger S. Walker, along with dozens of photographs of Hall growing up, at school, with friends and enjoying life. Proceeds from the book helped fund the five $500 scholarships that were presented at awards night. The second assignment in the book is titled "The Life of Cody Hall." The paper had been graded by Walker, but had not been returned to the teenager before his death. Walker read the essay at his funeral. In the essay, Hall projects his possible future - about graduating from school and becoming an emergency room doctor, who becomes bored with medicine, becomes a lawyer for "famous people" and makes his first billion dollars. Marriage, children and a trip to Africa also figure in the paper. During the trip, Hall writes, a lion bites him on the arm, but he fights back and kills it. With the lion's body lying at his feet, Hall watches elephants running toward him. The last line in the essay reads "Then, everything was black, and I met Jesus." Those words are immortalized on Hall's tombstone - And Then I Met Jesus. Tracie Pack says she has no doubts about where her son is. "He's in heaven looking down on us today," she said. "He found Jesus here and wasn't afraid to talk about his faith." After the Awards Night ceremony, Pack said she felt complete. "It wasn't nearly as bad as I imagined it would be," she said. "I feel good. I'm glad that we could do this for this particular class." Even though her son was killed nearly three years ago, the class has kept his memory alive, she added. "He has always been a part of this class," she said. "Through these scholarships we are able to keep his memory alive and he can live on through them." Posted in Clarendon sun on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 | |
| _UID | 0919F4EA60174EB5839728F5B201FB67C641 | |
| _UID | 0919F4EA60174EB5839728F5B201FB67C641 | |
| Person ID | I259591 | Singleton and Related Families |
| Last Modified | 4 Jun 2013 | |
| Father | Kenneth Wesley “Wesley” PACK | |
| Mother | Stacey Leigh WILLIAMSON | |
| Marriage | 7 Jun 2003 | Sumter County, South Carolina  [3] |
| _UID | 33B7EF64A7DD4A19B26EAAC89354A188C6AF | |
| _UID | 33B7EF64A7DD4A19B26EAAC89354A188C6AF | |
| Family ID | F78596 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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