SHEFFIELD, Ala. (WHNT) — William Michael Sandlin and Edison Kim Wallace were both killed in a boating accident Saturday evening.
“He was just absolutely one of a kind,” Riley Vaughn, Michael Sandlin’s oldest daughter, said.
Sandlin was a father, a grandpa, and an avid fisherman.
“If there wasn’t football or a game to be played, he was on the river; he knew the river like the back of his hand, he knew the river better than he knew driving down the road; they fished anytime they had a chance, they fished,” Vaughn said.
Sandlin was taken too soon, after the boating incident Saturday evening on Pickwick Lake, which also killed his best friend, Kim Wallace.
“Both of them passing together, it was just a double blow, but if it was going to happen, they would want to go together and doing what they love,” Vaughn said.
Vaughn said, her father and Kim’s bond was inseparable.
“They were just two grumpy but the nicest men you’ve ever meet just fishing, their banter was like a full time comedian show, back and fourth back and fourth, it was like you were sitting through a show, and it was the kind of banter you have once in a lifetime with that certain friend,” Vaughn said.
Vaughn said, whether it’s fishing, laughing, or looking back at photos, she will carry her father in her heart, for the rest of her life.
“Growing up, I could not have asked for a better dad. I put that man through everything and he had my back. He never wants to judge me for right, wrong and different, so we carry on raising our boys about the same way,” Vaughn said.
Vaughn also told News 19, memorial services will be held at Shelton Funeral Home in Decatur from 4 p.m.- 8 p.m. on Wednesday, August 20.
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