[sista]

This past Thur afternoon I noticed a number of law enforcement officers investigating something on 466-A across from Burkes BBQ. The next day there was flower memorial there and Sat afternoon there was a large gathering of people having a service there.

I looked in the Daily Sun but have not seen any report. It appears to have been a pedestrian or bicycle accident. Does anyone know what happened?

[pooh]

Motorcycle accident....collision with another vehicle. Motorcyclist died..Cole Powell.

[jane032657]

This is from the Villages News

A makeshift memorial has been set up on County Road 466A across from Burke’s Tree Farm in memory of 29-year-old Cole Powell.

He died Dec. 7 of injuries suffered at the site in a motorcycle accident. He was airlifted from there on the night of the accident and later died at Ocala Regional Medical Center.

Cole was a welder for Tucker’s Machine and Steel Service in Leesburg.

His co-workers welded a cross for the site.

Services were held Saturday at Lady Lake Church of God.

Nancy Peck of Naples said her son Ryan was friends with Cole back when they were young. Both got into trouble and found themselves in separate prisons.

But both found God and it changed their lives, she said.

Cole had been released Sept. 12 from prison, found a job and was rebuilding his life.

But at 9:30 p.m. Dec. 6 he collided with another vehicle in the accident. He died the next day.

Cole was involved with Lampstand and Xtreme Soul-utions Ministries.

“He found God and it changed everything,” said Peck.

At Saturday’s service, she read a statement from her son, penned in his prison cell.

In it, he proclaimed his love for the Lord. And his friend.

“He was my little brother,” said Cole’s sister Christen Powell of St. Petersburg. She was visiting the memorial on County Road 466A on Sunday afternoon.

Her 8-year-old son, Justice, was nicknamed “partner” by Uncle Cole.

At the memorial, he wore a shirt bearing his beloved uncle’s image.

On the back of the shirt the letters of his uncle’s name were spelled out.

C for Christ. O for Offers. L for Life. E for Eternity.

[Boudicca]

How very sad, and my prayers go out to Cole's family.

[rmcpklinefelter]

What a testimony from Cole, It made my smile and thank God.