Kaylee G.’s Hat: E18

This hat represents my uncle, Russell E. Worster, Jr. Russ began cutting wood while still in high school, working for a local logging company in the ’80s. Russ was known locally as a true logger, a hard worker and a wonderful family man. In September 2022, Uncle Russ was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer, the same cancer that took his father in 1995. He fought hard and the tumor began to shrink. We were given hope, a future with him. August 5, 2023, he was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and placed on a ventilator. The “pneumonia” was actually another lung infection that had spread to other organs and shut down his heart on August 24, 2023. It means so much to our family that his hat is on the wall. A big family trip to Nashville to see his hat would be one of our greatest trips, and I know that Uncle Russ would LOVE the idea and would likely lead the way if he was still with us.