Sean Toomey-Stout pauses to remember fellow Coupeville grad Lathom Kelley before Saturday’s University of Washington football game. (Photo courtesy Raven Vick)
Lathom’s memorial service. (Ben Smith photo)
It was a life well-lived.
Lathom Kelley, who died in a kayak accident in September, was a unique human being — large in personality, and always surprising.
He was a rugged athlete, a slick ladies’ man, a mama’s boy, rough and tough, but kind and caring.
Lathom loved his family and treated virtually everyone he met as his family.
He could crack heads (often his own), but also sweep others up with a kind gesture and a smile which lit up the prairie.
From the first moments of Coupeville Sports a decade ago, when he was a cartwheeling freshman and I was just exploring this transition to blogging, Lathom was The Dude.
Your dude. My dude. The dude each and every one of us needed in our lives.
He will be greatly missed, but he will never be forgotten.
