The call came from Harrisburg Hospital on Feb. 8, 2015. Cathy Quigley was told on the phone that her son, Kyle, had been involved in an auto accident.
“I just knew he was gone. They had me wait in a small room,” Quigley recalled of arriving at the Pennsylvania hospital and finding out that Kyle had died.
She would later learn that her 30-year-old son had been killed by a drunken driver in a crash in Fairview Township, Pa.
Cathy Quigley recounted that horrible day in 2015 while joining with hundreds of marchers Sunday for the annual HERO Campaign Walk on the Ocean City Boardwalk to remember the victims of drunken driving.
Her son’s picture was included in the HERO Campaign’s “Memory Banner, a photo collage lining the wall at the Ocean City Sports & Civic Center in honor of drunken-driving victims. Kyle Quigley, who lived in New Cumberland, Pa., was an Iraq war veteran who had formerly served with the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division.
“He should be here,” Quigley said, fighting back tears, while stressing how much she misses Kyle.