Nathan George was honored Sunday afternoon as over 100 friends, family, teachers and classmates gathered at the high school baseball field.
willieThey heard Mayor Jennifer Clason declare Nov. 19, 2017 as Nathan George Living Legend Day.
Sunday was chosen because it would have been the late HHS athlete’s 18th birthday.
“He was a blessing to each and every person he met and had an impact on people,” Clason told the packed bleacher audience.
A proclamation called George a legend along with Jim Shoulders, Troy Aikman and Alice Ghostly.
She pointed out he was a three-sport athlete as well as an excellent student in the classroom.
School board member Brandi Brown said it was fitting the podium was on home plate. “Nate won the battle, he is home. He loved sports and his teammates,” she said.
Reading from a prepared statement, his father William, called Nathan, “one of the kindest, most unselfish young man,” he had ever met. “He loved God, his family, school and girlfriend.”banner
He said his son who succumbed to Burkitt’s Lymphoma, displayed the knightly virtues of courage, justice, mercy, generosity, faith nobility and hope. “He exhibited those virtues. The actions of the school have forever ensured Nathan is and will always be a knight.”
Middle school art teacher Krystle Wells and athletic director Tim Gillispie displayed a banner that would be mounted to the baseball hitting facility this coming spring.
Following the ceremony at the baseball field, the George family and friends met at West Lawn Cemetery for a balloon launch in his memory.

 

 

 

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