Byron Martin and how he saved five lives!

I loved Byron...we all did.  He was such a great kid.  He entered my life in 2001.  Byron is my ex husband's grandson and he loved his Grandaddy.  He was really good to our dogs and he rode my horse once...a real natural rider.  He was an animal whisperer.  He never met a stranger young or old!  Some of my fondest memories ... all of my fondest memories are of how he looked after all of us.  If he were visiting Rose Hill on the Golf side he still would run into the woods to view the deer.  On the estate side he would practice his golf swings... but to the animals he was a God.  He just had that gift. 

I remember how he took care of his younger sisters.  I remember how he used to say Yes, Sir and Yes, M'am.  I remember how he and his sisters always participated in the live play "This Man Called Jesus" in Lexington, SC.  I commented to my stepdaughter at the time... how is it they can have camels and horses indoors as a part of the play and not freak out at the crowds??"  lol... she said... they never have!  A real miracle.  All three of her babies played parts of baby Jesus and of wise men... year after year they were in it.

Byron was going to be a veterinarian and he would have been a brilliant one.  It wasn't God that took him.  It was the wrong car on the wrong turn without a seatbelt that took him.  God was just there to hold him on the other side.  His legacy?  "Buckle Up For Byron" is the mission now of the Lexington Police Department.  The car is there as a reminder.  My stepdaughter Hope at the time was and remains to this day a very strong woman of faith.  Byron donated five organs upon her wishes and saved five different lives on his passing including a father of 35 who needed a heart.  Another's eyesight was saved.. the lungs helped another and the kidneys others...

All live on.  I love you Byron and I always will.  Take good care of our horse Royal Sequel until we meet again.  I know God is happy to have you helping with all our animals in heaven!  You passed on in October of 2007 but your life giving energy stays with us always and forever.