Awful stuff out of the Old Dominion:
A beloved father died after he was seriously injured during a hunting accident while with his son in Virginia, officials said.
Lester Clayton Harvey Jr., 58, was standing about 10 feet from the bottom of a tree where his group of houndsmen had chased a bear in Lunenburg County on Dec. 9, the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources told McClatchy News in an email. One of the hunters shot the bear, and it struck Harvey as it fell.
Harvey was a hunting enthusiast and appeared to regularly go on excursions in the woods with family and friends:
His son Josh said in a Facebook post that his dad was "a hard working, kind, caring man" who " never missed a day of work," who "would give you the shirt off his back," and who "[loved] the outdoors and wouldn't miss a good hunt for nothing:"
His daughter echoed those remarks, writing that Harvey was the "hardest worker I know" and was always "either working or hunting:"
He put a roof on with vertigo, framed houses with sickness, he never missed work. Well unless there was a good hunt to be had.
Josh later wrote of his father: "I am so thankful for all the memories we made and all you taught me I wouldn't be the man I am now if it wasn't for you."
RIP.
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