Son shares heartfelt tribute to UF Health Jacksonville CEO

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Grant D. Haley, the lad of UF Health Jacksonville CEO Dr. Leon Haley Jr., paid tribute to his begetter connected Thursday, remembering him arsenic a “hero.”

Dr. Haley died this play successful a idiosyncratic watercraft mishap successful South Florida. According to FWC, Haley was operating the Yamaha WaveRunner connected Saturday greeting erstwhile helium was ejected from the watercraft and was recovered successful the h2o wearing a beingness jacket. FWC said helium was taken to a infirmary successful West Palm Beach, wherever helium died.

Grant Haley, a cornerback for the New Orleans Saints, posted a photograph of his begetter connected Instagram and wrote: “You acceptable a modular and a bequest that a lad tin lone anticipation to achieve. Daddy, you volition ever beryllium my hero. You showed and taught maine however and what it meant to beryllium a achromatic antheral successful this life. There are nary words that I tin adjacent statesman to enactment unneurotic to fto you cognize however arrogant I americium to beryllium your son. I volition everlastingly grant your bequest arsenic a servant towards others. I committedness you not a time volition spell by wherever you won’t transverse my mind. I volition instrumentality attraction of everyone down present due to the fact that I cognize you volition beryllium watching maine and guiding maine each measurement of the way. I emotion you truthful overmuch and can’t hold to spot you again 1 day. Uncle LoLo is waiting for you with unfastened arms. To my guardian angel and the top antheral I volition ever cognize you raised 2 good young men and a girl that volition alteration this world. I volition bash everything I tin successful this beingness of excavation to marque you proud.”

Funeral arrangements person been made for Dr. Haley and volition instrumentality spot connected Saturday astatine 11 a.m. successful his hometown of Pittsburgh.

Visitation volition beryllium 4 to 8 p.m. Friday astatine Wesley Center AME Zion Church astatine 2701 Centre Ave.

UF Health Jacksonville said it volition clasp a memorial lawsuit astatine the infirmary sometime adjacent week.

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Carianne Luter

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