Two Friends Fulfill Last Wish Of A Dying Hunting Companion – Tyler Morning Telegraph

By Steve Knight

It was a promise made to a friend who was dying.

It was a simple request of one hunting buddy to two others that was easy to keep because of the type of friendship they had, a friendship forged through hunting.

It started last July, just days before Whitehouse’s Don Oxford died. Tyler’s Johnny Hill was visiting Oxford and telling him about a recent trip to New Zealand when Oxford asked the favor.

He had a grandson, 9-year-old Mason Rodriquez, whom he had introduced to hunting. The Owens Elementary student seemed to enjoy the time they spent shooting and the couple of trips they had made the previous years to deer seasons. However, Mason’s parents, Jerry and Mandy Rodriquez, didn’t hunt. Oxford, knowing that cancer would soon take his life, realized that he would need his friends to continue Mason’s adventures in the outdoors.

“Donny asked me if I would see that Mason got to go hunting,” Hill said, recalling the tears in his friend’s eyes as he spoke. “I said don’t worry about it, I would make sure that happened.  Click link below for full story!

via Tyler Paper – Tyler Morning Telegraph.