The Loss of a Hunting Buddy

Darlene & Avery getting ready in predawn hours for our annual swan hunt

Darlene Wyrick left this life Tuesday but her memory will live on forever. Whenever we gather around the campfire of hunting camp we’ll remember her. I’ve been a friend with her husband Avery (Hawkeye) for a number of years hunting and fishing all over the state with him. The last few years Darlene started joining in and she became another one of the guys at hunt camp.

Darlene tagging her swan.

I loved to hear her tell a hunting story and then hear Avery tell his side. Darlene told me about a duck hunt her and Avery went on, they had asked a guy if they could hunt his pond and he gave them permission. It turns out it wasn’t his pond and the real landowner showed up while they were hunting. A few tense moments but once Avery explained what was going on the landowner relaxed and they talked it out. Latter I talked with Avery about this story and found out Darlene left a part of the story out it seems when this landowner showed up Darlene slipped away and got in the truck. Avery said that once the initial tension was over he looked up and saw Darlene sitting in the truck. To hear her tell it you’d of thought she was right there to hear it all. Boy we laughed about that story a number of times.

Last year on the swan hunt Avery handed Darlene an unloaded shotgun while we were hunting so the click on the empty chamber was all we heard as her turn to shoot a swan happened. Of course we all believed that Avery did that to her on purpose so she wouldn’t show him up.

Although I didn’t hunt a lot with Avery and Darlene we kind of did get the chance to sit in the deer stand some with them between the stories and the videos. Darlene will be missed a lot from us that knew her from the swan hunts and the get togethers we’ve had over the years. While she may of seemed quiet I’m surely going to miss her “Hey Moose how are ya?”

For I will turn their mourning into joy And will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow. Jeremiah 31:13

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
Therefore comfort one another with these words. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

Darlene Hall Wyrick
November 7, 1962 – September 16, 2008

Till We Meet Again Rest In Peace
-Moose-

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