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Community mourns death of Holmes County athlete [17]
WJHG-TV 7 Panama City FL ^ | Published: Sep. 13, 2022 at 3:06 PM CDT | By WJHG Newsroom and Katie Bente

Posted on 09/16/2022 8:51:07 AM PDT by Red Badger

BONIFAY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - The Holmes County community is mourning the loss of a beloved athlete and honor student. High school senior Tyler Erickson passed away suddenly Monday night while out practicing for an upcoming golf tournament.

NewsChannel 7 spoke with Tyler’s dad, Clint Erickson, who said while his son’s life was short, he was a blessing to many.

“My child had been a blessing to my wife, and my two daughters. One older daughter and one younger daughter. We will cherish him forever. It was God’s will. We believe it was God’s will for this to happen. It was an unexplainable accident, and it’s just hard. It’s hard and it’s difficult to move on but we’ve got to move on. But just as a family, we feel blessed that we’ve been able to have him,” Erickson said.

Tyler passed away just two days before his 18th birthday. While he was young, he definitely left his mark. He was a shining light gone too soon.

“He was somebody that always cared about you and would go out of his day to ask you how yours was and try to make it any type of like if you’re having a bad day, he could make it better,” classmate Delaney Donaldson said.

Students and faculty at Holmes County High School are remembering the Tyler’s life, as a star student and Beta Club State President.

“He’s one of those students that just comes around every now and then. And I really enjoyed working with him and he will be greatly missed.” teacher and Beta Club sponsor Rachel Belser said.

He shined outside the classroom too, on stage and on the golf course.

“Actually what he was doing when the tragedy struck was going out to work on his golf game and that’s the type of guy he was,” Jeff Lee, Holmes County High School Athletic Director, said.

Tyler was practicing for an upcoming tournament Monday when he passed away for unknown reasons.

“I just hate this so for him and his family but I hate it more for the world. I mean he was a wonderful person and I just, this is horrible,” Laurence Pender, Principal of Holmes County High School, said.

Donaldson remembers feeling like the world stopped when she heard he was gone.

“She got a text and we just sat there and hugged,” Donaldson said.

While it’s okay to be upset and mourn, Donaldson said it’s not what he would have wanted.

“Today my mom was like Delaney are you going to go to school? And I was like I’m going to, I mean I’m going to try,” Donaldson said. “And I was like I feel like I should because I know he wouldn’t be like wanting you to sit around the house just cry about it all day.”

The school is holding a bubble release Wednesday in honor of Tyler’s 18th birthday.

His viewing and funeral will be held Saturday morning at the high school.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society; Sports; Weird Stuff
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1 posted on 09/16/2022 8:51:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: ransomnote; ExTexasRedhead

Ping!.....................


2 posted on 09/16/2022 8:51:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

One crucial bit of information is missing here. I know that every year there are a few young athletes that die during practice. Usually football in the summer heat. This year there are many. You hear this every day now. How many have had the covid jabs?


3 posted on 09/16/2022 8:56:49 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: bk1000

I’d bet the rent that nearly 100% are jabbed................


4 posted on 09/16/2022 9:00:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

New normal.


5 posted on 09/16/2022 9:05:03 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911/June 14, 1944)
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To: ConservaTexan

😢Apparently so.................


6 posted on 09/16/2022 9:11:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: bk1000

I would garner almost all have had the jab.

Gods will my aunt fanny,


7 posted on 09/16/2022 9:11:41 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: bk1000

Very, very few. Like, less than 3 die of heat stroke a year


8 posted on 09/16/2022 9:16:19 AM PDT by roving ( Pronouns- libs/suk)
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To: Red Badger

I know it’s a family matter. But no autopsy? R/O foul play? Drug O/D? MRNA vaxxed? Congenital heart disease, anamolous brain circulation?
Can not find “bubble release” in conjunction for funeral. Anyone know?


9 posted on 09/16/2022 9:17:37 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Getready
Can not find “bubble release” in conjunction for funeral. Anyone know?

A memorial ceremony. Bubbles released because they are beautiful and short-lived. Like their son.

10 posted on 09/16/2022 9:28:34 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
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To: bk1000

https://www.techarp.com/facts/kaden-clymer-blood-clot-vaccine/

The article has this very accurate quote: “It’s becoming a tradition for anti-vaccination activists to immediately blame all athlete deaths or injuries on the COVID-19 vaccine.”


11 posted on 09/16/2022 9:31:55 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: DugwayDuke
The article has this very accurate quote: “It’s becoming a tradition for anti-vaccination activists to immediately blame all athlete deaths or injuries on the COVID-19 vaccine.”

Pure projection. It was the Branch Covidians, the Propaganda Media, government sadists, and Pfascist pharmaceutical korporations who blamed every death in 2020 on COVID-1984 including motorcycle crashes.

It was so miraculous that COVID-1984 not only killed everyone who died that year, it also killed the flu virus because the flu didn't kill anyone in 2020 according to the same corrupt shills.

12 posted on 09/16/2022 10:08:25 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: DugwayDuke

https://www.techarp.com/facts/kaden-clymer-blood-clot-vaccine/

The article has this very accurate quote: “It’s becoming a tradition for anti-vaccination activists to immediately blame all athlete deaths or injuries on the COVID-19 vaccine.”

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Wait a minute. This kid got to the age he is now and an athlete besides and suddenly finds himself in the fix he’s in. While anything can suddenly present itself, this just sounds fishy to me. Furthermore, given the ever-growing vax clot track record, it’s not at all outrageous today to look to the shot as the culprit behind sudden clotting. It’s just common sense and deductive reasoning, not insanity as the naysayers would label it. Shouldn’t the vaxers be asking the same questions about the clotting epidemic occurring before our very eyes?


13 posted on 09/16/2022 10:10:13 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: T.B. Yoits

“Pure projection.”

It’s all the jabbers have left.


14 posted on 09/16/2022 10:10:52 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Red Badger

Rest in Peace, Tyler.


15 posted on 09/16/2022 11:04:35 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi..)
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To: DugwayDuke

Rumors of your banning may have been exaggerated.


16 posted on 09/16/2022 11:21:11 AM PDT by Tymesup
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To: Red Badger

Never remember anything like this in high school or in high schools around here


17 posted on 09/16/2022 11:29:00 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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To: T.B. Yoits

T.B. Yoits wrote: “It was so miraculous that COVID-1984 not only killed everyone who died that year, it also killed the flu virus because the flu didn’t kill anyone in 2020 according to the same corrupt shills.”

You keep insisting upon posting false information. There were 22,000 flu deaths in the USA in the 2020 flu season. That only reinforces the observation that the anti-vaxxers insist that all deaths must be the result of the vaccines.


18 posted on 09/16/2022 11:37:54 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Thanks.


19 posted on 09/16/2022 11:39:06 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: DugwayDuke

Propaganda. These aren’t vaccines and those who oppose them are not “anti-vaxxers”.


20 posted on 09/16/2022 11:40:44 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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