In the 1960s, a young man waited by the window. He watched hopefully, waiting to catch his first glimpse of the woman he’d be introduced to for their blind date. At the time, he was serving in the Navy, and a friend of his was dating a woman who had a friend that they wanted the man to meet. He couldn’t have known then that the woman standing in the driveway would one day become his partner in life — sharing his name, their daughter, Karen, and nearly 55 years of marriage.
The then-strangers first names were Rick and Patsy and they would one day become the couple known as the Montgomerys.
Late in the evening on June 27, Rick and Patsy — 76 and 73 years old, respectively — died tragically in a boating accident on Skull Creek. The couple had called Bluffton home for the past seven years as residents of the Sun City community. The accident and loss shook the Lowcountry, especially those close to the couple…