BlackKnight755
Senior Member
On April 10th, 2022 my life long and best friend Kelly Adam Chaney passed away suddenly from an apparent heart attack while unhooking his semi trailer. It was a shock to us all as Kelly had no previous heart conditions and was a mostly healthy 58 year old man.
Kelly and I have been friends since 1970 and he was literally like my brother. We were together almost every weekend fishing. He and I would spend countless hours talking on the phone every day. We are both truck drivers and had so much time that we were just driving, we would talk so much... our handsfree devices would have to be swapped over to our backup devices to continue our conversations.
We did everything together. We fished so much together and fished so much alike that when we would be fishing, many times I would be fishing one specific bait and see a good spot for another type of bait, I would put one down and pick up the other reel and look back and Kelly would have the same one that I had switched to. We would both laugh and say "Man we think too much alike"!
I can't tell you how many times We would be calling each other at the same time and each of our phones would go to each others voice mails. We could be thousands of miles apart and make those simultaneous calls.
There are thousands of stories, and tens of thousands of fishing pictures... and now I am lost without my brother from another mother. I have had a very hard time dealing with his death and being left with such an empty feeling. These few words that I have typed tonight is only a scratch of the surface of the times that we have had throughout life. I thank god for the memories that I have and all the pictures and videos to keep him in my memory.
Please whisper a little for me as well as his family. They have had a very bad last year. We lost his Brother, Kelly's wife 2 weeks after his brothers passing, Kelly, His first cousin was lost to cancer, his uncle and Kelly's mother who was like a mother to me. 6 people in that family in an 8 month span.
Kelly and I have been friends since 1970 and he was literally like my brother. We were together almost every weekend fishing. He and I would spend countless hours talking on the phone every day. We are both truck drivers and had so much time that we were just driving, we would talk so much... our handsfree devices would have to be swapped over to our backup devices to continue our conversations.
We did everything together. We fished so much together and fished so much alike that when we would be fishing, many times I would be fishing one specific bait and see a good spot for another type of bait, I would put one down and pick up the other reel and look back and Kelly would have the same one that I had switched to. We would both laugh and say "Man we think too much alike"!
I can't tell you how many times We would be calling each other at the same time and each of our phones would go to each others voice mails. We could be thousands of miles apart and make those simultaneous calls.
There are thousands of stories, and tens of thousands of fishing pictures... and now I am lost without my brother from another mother. I have had a very hard time dealing with his death and being left with such an empty feeling. These few words that I have typed tonight is only a scratch of the surface of the times that we have had throughout life. I thank god for the memories that I have and all the pictures and videos to keep him in my memory.
Please whisper a little for me as well as his family. They have had a very bad last year. We lost his Brother, Kelly's wife 2 weeks after his brothers passing, Kelly, His first cousin was lost to cancer, his uncle and Kelly's mother who was like a mother to me. 6 people in that family in an 8 month span.
