BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. ( WKRG ) — On Tuesday, Jan. 23, gunfire in Loxley and a rush to an emergency room.
“My son’s girlfriend called me, frantic and told me he had been shot,” Candie Reeves said.
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Stanley Koenig, Sr., 40, was clinging to life. Hope that he would survive was soon shattered.
“They let us know that he wasn’t going to recover,” Reeves said. “I asked his wife and mother not to do anything until I could get both boys there to say their goodbyes.”
Candie Reeves was married to Koenig for five years. They had two sons. After those goodbyes, the man she said was always doing for others saved six lives with the loss of his.
“Someone got his heart, both lungs, both kidneys and liver and his pancreas went to forensic science to hopefully help other people,” she said.
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That’s just the kind of a guy Stanley Koenig was, said Reeves.
“Stanley was bigger than life,” she said. “He lived life to its fullest every day.”