"Ooooooooh what a ride" might have been what U.S. Army Sgt. Eddie Jeffers said on his way to Heaven on Wednesday, his 8-year-old sister Hannah Kelly told their mom, Tina Kelly.
"But my son doesn’t want to be remembered sadly. He would want us all to be smiling, to remember him skateboarding, working at Wendy’s, playing in his band ‘Fighting the Vanna White Influence," she said. "And that he liked beer and hated drinking girls. He loved his wife Stephanie (Reeves Jeffers). And he wanted children - he was going to try to go stateside as a recruiter after his tour was over in January. He was the oldest of six children, and had a stepsister."
"The Real Deal in Ramadi" was a book he had not completed. The first line read, "As requested by my father." Kelly said Jeffers’ father will finish writing the story for his son.