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News and Discussions => Nuke Community => Fallen: => Topic started by: Mike McFarlin on Jun 26, 2008, 03:50
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Please pray for my brother, Gary Lewallen, aka Turbineman. Gary is very ill with lung cancer. He is having a tough go of it at this time.
He has been an RP since 1980 working for CP&L and the Duke system.
We need your prayers and support. Spanky
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Gary is a great guy, my prayers go out to him
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Sad to hear that. I worked with Gary on Oconee's Turbine Deck last spring and got on really well with him. He's a great guy.
Get well soon, Gary! All the best to you.
Jon Malcolm.
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I don't believe I've had the pleasure of meeting Gary - but you and your family are most definitely in my prayers.
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Sad to hear this about Gary. I worked with him in the early 90's at Oconee. His excellent sense of humor may pull him out of this.
ISOCS
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My prayers are with Gary. I called him just a few weeks ago and he seemed to be in good spirits. Worked many a night with Gary at the Carolina plants and also at Farley. I imagine their are not many techs that have put the miles on a car that Gary has.
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Spanky, I saw Gary yesterday, his spirits are still strong. His faith in a healing are even stronger. He said he appreciates all the prayers, cards and calls he gets, and this is what he talked about most, his friends thinking about him. Bud
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Will do!!! Knowing Gary from the old day's (Robinson from 80-~83) is one of the many highlights of my career. One of the best out there! Tell him i said to hang in there!
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So all of Gary's friends will know, he has gotten progressively worse in the last 24 hours. Your prayers are appreciated by him and his family. Bud
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Was sorry to hear about Gary's illness Mike.....our prayers and thoughts will be with Gary and your family. Please keep us up to date. Jackie and Uncle Bob
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Sorry to hear about you getting worse Gary. You and your family will be in my prayers. All those times at HBR and Oconee are some of my best memories. Stay strong my friend. Henry
remember the "Rock Dove"
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Gary know that you are in my prayers and thoughts. Sorry to hear you are not feeling well. You are one of the best and there are not many old timers like us left. Heres praying for you to get well soon. Brad
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Thanks for the prayers everyone. Gary is still having a tough go with his cancer but is still hanging in there. Please continue to think of him in your prayers. Spanky
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Spanky, please know that our thoughts and prayers are with Gary, you and family. I sit here and think about all the time that has passed and it just does not seem possible; somewhere along the line we grew up and many of us have not seen each other in years, perhaps decades, but just reading a name or hearing it conjures up good people and good times.
I don't say this often to anyone but Henry... be safe and I'm sending you love.
Camella
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I want to thank everyone for thinking of and praying for Gary's recovery. However, this morning at about 11:30, Gary lost his battle with cancer. He leaves behind two sons Britt and Derek. We also lost a brother, Kaley about 3 months ago. I will post again when I know all the arrangements and again thank you all.
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My condolences to Gary's family,my thoughts and prayers are with his family
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Spanky and family, I so sorry for your loss.
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Mike I am very sorry to hear of your family's loss.
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RIP Gary. You were a cool person to know.
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Every day I've been checking this thread, hoping for a wee bit of good news.
I just want to say I'm glad I chose to work Oconee last spring as I got to work with people like Dawn Thornton and Gary Lewallen - both of whom have been taken from us in the last couple of weeks.
I'm really sorry to hear this. My thoughts to you and the rest of Gary's family and friends.
RIP Gary.
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Gary Lewallen passed away yesterday at 11:44 am from cancer. please pray for Gary's family
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Mike, I am sorry to hear about Gary passing away. He was a great person and tech. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at this sad time. Gray will see you on the other side. Brad
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I am sorry to hear this. I worked with Gary at Oconee. He was a great Tech and a Great Man. Rest in Peace Old Friend
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Gary was a great guy and a great tech that I shared many moments with over the past 20+ years and am thankful for that. He loved his kids and often talked about them and I can remember him travelling from Mcguire and Harris to home to be with his family every day after doing 12.5 hour days or nights. My prayers go out to his entire family.
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Spank, Gary was a good friend to me not unlike your self. I will miss his sense of humor. I always enjoyed working with him throughout the years he will be missed greatly. My deep condolences to family and friends. RIP brother.
Hambone
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Thank you all for thinking of us during these trying times, Gary was a very good brother/person and will be missed by all of us, especially his boys. I now look back and will miss working with him.
His funeral is tomorrow at the Miller-Rivers-Caulder Funeral Home in Chesterfield, SC.
The website is (www.mrcfuneralhome.com).
Again thanks to each and everyone, you all seems like family to me. Mike McFarlin
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So sorry to hear about Gary. He was a good guy. My prayers are with u.
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Gary was a good man, a man i am proud to call friend. he will be missed in Hartsville, and the industry. Eryll Mcphee
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I met Gary in 86 at Oconee & worked with him a number of times over the years. Always was anice guy to talk & work with. My thoughts & prayers go out to his family. Tom
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THANKS EVERYONE FOR THE KIND WORDS AND PRAYERS ABOUT AND FOR MY FATHER I REALLY ENJOY READING ALL THE WONDERFUL THINGS YOU ALL HAD TO SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH LOVE YOU DAD MISS YOU ALOT.PS TAKE CARE OF MY UNCLE MIKE EVERYONE.
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..I had the blessed opportunity to attend the celebration of Gary's passing from mortality to immortality yesterday. Gary was a good friend, and brother in Christ. He never gave up, and put his Faith where he said it should be, not in medicine. He talked with me many times about his friends and especially the crew at Oconee Nuclear Station, he really appreciated what they did for him. Gary is buried in Patrick, SC.
REST IN PEACE, my brother.
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I am very sorry to hear of loss of Gary Lewallen. I did not know him personally, but my Father, Ed Boice, spoke of him fondly on numerous occassions. My Father has asked me to extend his deepest sympathies to Gary's family.
Debi Boice-Mobley
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After keeping up with the thread about Gary's illness I had hoped that I would not see the next post in this forum. Another good man taken, such a shame. My thoughts are with his family, I'm very sorry to hear this.
This list is getting waaaaay too long!
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i met gary in 1980 at st. lucie. i was the deconner supv. and gary worked for me he did anything that i asked of him and never complained, we worked together for a number of years, brunswick, robinson, one of his heroes is richard petty, and nobody could talk bad about him, i'll never forget him saying this about petty, "I'll tell you thing bygod cant nobody beat richard petty and they never will break his record".
rest in peace my brother
rapidray
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I worked with Gary from the early 80's until the present. He was a good man and a great friend. He was always there when I needed an answer to a question. He would always take the time to chat about the past and laugh about most of it. Especially the old times at HB Robinson. My prayers go out to his family. Henry Black
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I met and worked with Gary at the Harris plant.We kidded each other with me being a "yankee" and he was a "Good ole boy", through the entire outage. I learned to respect him. He will be missed. My prayers are with the family and friends of a man I learned to call a friend.
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I just found out from Spanky McFarland that Gary had died. I rented off Spanky while @ Oconee (fall 2005). Gary was a good dude to know! My sympathies to all his family. - Mike.
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Been gone 1 year today, we still miss you, brother!
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EVERY PRAYER HELPS! Even for or from people who you dont know... Your Brother and u and all your family will be in our prayers! Vinman & Les
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He will ALWAYS be with you! Take care 'bro. -Snake.
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Been gone over 2 years now. Still miss you, brother.
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Been gone over 2 years now. Still miss you, brother.
Mike, I know how you feel... it has been 2+ years since my older brother Jim Brown passed and almost 7 months since Brad; I still reach for the phone at times to call Brad and tell him something.
Lean on your family and friends and trust that they are in a beautiful place. Love ya Spanky!
Camella
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I cant tell you how many times I wish I could talk to one of my parents. It never goes away. If you did not love you would not grieve. Its the forgetting that hurts me. Sometimes, it used to happen a lot but not as much now, I would forget and for a short period of time my parents were alive, then it would all come back and I would feel ashamed that I had forgoten,then I would feel the loss a little more. It gets better over time,but slowly. My father died almost 15 years ago. Take care Spanky and Camella and all who know what I mean. Joe
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Thanks Camella and Joe. Its true, we are all one big family!
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Been gone 3 years, we still miss you, brother!
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Thought about him on his birthday, March 6th.
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Spank was reading your reply. It made me think of when Gary and I lived together at St Lucie. We had a blast, I to miss him. as well as all the others that have left us. God Bless them all.