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- Mar 19, 2019
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An act of valiance intersected with irreversible tragedy.
Timothy K. Ebert, Jr., and a co-worker were driving to work at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport on Aug. 9 when an erratic motorist wrecked on the interstate, her car coming to a rest in the roadway.
Ebert stopped on the side of the road and checked on the motorist.
"He has such a big heart, I can see him stopping — I can see him doing it right now in my head, he would have beaten himself up all day if he had known he hadn't stopped for that pregnant lady who had wrecked," Lindsay Ebert said.
Everything was going to be OK until another motorist fatally struck her husband of seven years as he was returning to his vehicle.
When police knocked on her door that Sunday morning, she "just kept thinking, 'You don't have the right person.' "
Lindsay said the blood results of the driver who struck her husband came back positive for alcohol, but the incident remains under investigation; proceedings have been slowed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Timothy was just 34 years old. He leaves behind 6-year-old daughter Tinley and stepsons Bryce and Brayden that he loved as his biological children. Bryce has become a huge Vikings fan — his favorite player is Adam Thielen — from Timothy's influence, an unrelenting love for the Vikings passed to Timothy by his father and grandfather, who both grew up in Minnesota.