In memory of a splicing All-star

Tobe_Sherrill

Tobe_Sherrill

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To those who knew him, and the many who climb on his splicing craftsmanship, we are sad to report that last week LaMarcus Keith Green lost a three-year battle with brain cancer. LaMarcus left behind a lovely family and a lot of broken hearts at SherrillTree and in the community.

LaMarcus was a block of man with a penchant for bending your ear. With his high school football years behind him LaMarcus joined SherrillTree in the year 2000 as a full-time splicer, learning from the best, including my friends Stanly Longstaff and Mike (House) Tain. To watch him handle rope was to truly see art in motion. I often stopped at his station to amuse visitors. LaMarcus loved life, family, motorcycles, and making people smile.

For those with SherrillTree splice work, LaMarcus’s identifier was a single brown dot on the splice whipping.

In LaMarcus' memory I ask that we respect and honor each other just a measure more for this short time we're treated to life.

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Condolences from Ontario , Canada ...peace be with LaMarcus and his family and friends...

I'm going to check through all my spliced stuff from you guys that I bought in the past, if I find the brown dot, it will be retired in his honour( after I'm done climbing on it all I can though ;) )

Regards,
Cary Gibson
 
Prayers from RI. Everything happens for a reason, sometimes we just don't understand it. I hope his family and others left behind can somehow accept this and move forward.

-Tom
 
Thoughts and prayers to both his family and Sherrill family. I am certian he will be missed. I offer the following quote from John Muir.

"The rugged old Norsemen spoke of death as "Heimgang"- home-going. So the snow-flowers go home when they melt and flow to the sea, and the rock-ferns, after unrolling their fronds to the light and beautify the rocks, roll them up close again in the autumn and blend with the soil. Myriads of rejoicing living creatures, daily, hourly, perhaps every moment sink into death's arms, dust to dust, spirit to spirit- waited on, watched over, noticed only by their Maker, each arriving at its own Heaven-dealt destiny. All the merry dwellers of the trees and streams and myriad swarms of the air, called into life by the sunbeam of a summer morning, go home through death, wings folded perhaps in the last red rays of sunset of the day they were first tried. Trees towering in the sky, braving storms of centuries, flowers turning their faces to the light for a single day or hour, having enjoyed their share of life's feast-all alike pass on and away under the law of death and love. Yet all are our brothers and they enjoy life as we do, share Heaven's blessings with us, die and are buried in hallowed ground, come with us out of eternity and return into eternity. "Our lives are rounded with a sleep.""
 
I too am very sorry to hear this. Tobe, please give his family my condolences as well. I’ve been buying splices from Sherrill for years, so I’m sure that I’ve worked with his splices before.

I just found out last week that my sister-in-law has lung cancer and that it has spread through her body. This is a lady who has never smoked a cigarette before, or has any history of cancer in her family. She goes into the hospital tomorrow to have her right lung removed and start chemo.

I really and truly hate hearing about anyone who has cancer. I think everyone of us knows someone who has been touched by it in some way.

Rest in piece LaMarcus.
 
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