Cody Michael HALL

1995 - 2010  (15 years)

• Name	Cody Michael HALL  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Birth	28 Mar 1995	Fairbanks, Alaska   [5]
  Gender	Male
  HIST	How are Tim Mitchum and Mr. and Mrs. Dean Davis his grandparents? How is Betty Guyton and Carolyn Ward his great-grandparents? He was preceded in death by grandparents, Leo Guyton and Nancy Mitchum. How are they his grandparents? jkh CODY M. HALL Cody Michael Hall, age 15, son of Stacey and Wesley Pack, died on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. He was born on March 28, 1995, in Fairbanks, Alaska, a son of Stacey Williamson Pack and Michael Gary Hall. He was a 10th grade student at Laurence Manning Academy, where he was a member of the varsity football team and played both offense and defense. He loved to hunt, fish, duck hunt and loved the outdoors. He will always be remembered as a wonderful, great son who loved his family. Surviving are his parents, Stacey and Wesley Pack; two brothers, Conner Pack and Joshua Pack; grandparents, Frank Williamson, Tim Mitchum, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Davis, and Mr. and Mrs. Hazel Pack; great-grandparents, Betty Guyton, Carolyn Ward and Mr. and Mrs. Francis Williamson; numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. He was preceded in death by grandparents, Leo Guyton and Nancy Mitchum. A funeral service will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Laurence Manning Academy gymnasium with the Rev. F. Arthur Sharpe officiating. Burial will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park in Sumter. The family will receive friends from 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at Bullock Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the Laurence Manning Academy "Athletic Program," P.O. Box 278, Manning, SC 29102. You may sign the family's guestbook at www.bullockfuneralhome.com. The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home of Sumter for the arrangements.   3 LMA students die in Sunday wreck Print Posted: Tuesday, October 5, 2010 6:00 am | Updated: 10:54 pm, Mon Oct 4, 2010. Robert J. Baker bbaker@theitem.com MANNING - Long before the bells rang Monday morning for first block at Laurence Manning Academy, three students were noticeably missing. Friends, family, faculty and staff had been gathering at the school since early Sunday morning, shortly after the three teenagers died in a wreck only three miles away. Brothers Jessi Parnell, 14, and Cody Parnell, 17, both of Arc Ave., Manning, and Cody Hall, 15, of Rockdale Blvd., Sumter, died when the 2005 Nissan sports utility vehicle they were in careened off one side of Old Georgetown Road near Bradham Road, less than four miles from downtown Manning. South Carolina Highway Patrol spokesman Lance Cpl. Josef Robinson said the wreck happened about 7 a.m. Sunday when the vehicle, heading toward Manning, crossed to the left side, hitting a tree and bursting into flames. The incident remains under investigation. Jay Parnell said his sons set out to hunt early Sunday morning after camping overnight with friends after a bonfire. He said his wife, Vicki, was expecting the boys for breakfast Sunday at their home on Lake Marion. The boys, he said, often brought home teammates from the football team each weekend to stay at the house, go hunting, eat breakfast at the house and then go out on the lake. "My wife would cook a huge breakfast, and they'd come stomping back in here at 10 a.m. and devour all the food, and she loves that," Parnell said. On Saturday night, the family had a big dinner with daughter, Leah Daly, her husband, John, and their son, Luke, 18 months, Parnell said. "(The boys) had put out corn Saturday to go deer hunting and then we had the big dinner, a great dinner," Parnell said. "After dinner, they went to a bonfire all the kids were going to and ended up camping out there," he said, noting, "they were good about calling and checking in." "Vicki woke up Sunday morning and asked what time the boys would be home for breakfast. She was going to start cooking. They were on their way to the field they'd put corn in." Parnell said the brothers were inseparable. He believes Jessi declined to play junior varsity football for Laurence Manning this year because his schedule would have conflicted with Cody's varsity games. "This was Cody's first year on varsity, and he played defensive end," Parnell said. "I think it was a combination this year of Jessi not wanting to be the underclassman on the JV team and also not wanting to be away from Cody. He elected to suck up to the coaches and become the official waterboy for the varsity team so he could be with his brother, ride the bus with the varsity team and go to all the games." Laurence Manning seniors Ben Wade and Rhett Williams, both 17, and Wells Richardson, 18, said they didn't know the Parnell boys well, but that Cody Hall was like a little brother to them. The three were joined by fellow senior Olivia Schaller, 17, at the wreck site Monday for a long moment of silence. "We hung out a lot," Williams said. "We just hung around, cutting up. They were all fun-loving guys, but I didn't know Cody Parnell or his little brother too much. I know they loved to have fun. They loved to hunt." Richardson agreed. "Cody Hall was a duck boy," he said, smiling. "He loved to duck hunt. Actually, he liked any type of hunting." Schaller held onto Richardson's arm while the group stood silently viewing the burned patch of grass and trees where the vehicle stopped. Williams had visited Sunday, but didn't want to believe his friends were gone. "I just couldn't believe it," he said. Headmaster Spencer Jordan said clergy and grief counselors were available Monday if students needed them. Richardson said school began with an assembly. Jordan said the Laurence Manning Academy family has had far too many tragedies in recent years: Ashlie Pipkin, a fifth-grade student at the school died in September 2009 from complications from H1N1; in September 2006, junior Justin Gibbs, 16, of Sumter, died on Old Manning Road in Sumter from injuries suffered in a wreck that also killed Bonnie McCauley, 46, and sent her 2-month old son, Adam, and junior Evan Prothro, 16, to a Columbia hospital in critical condition. Parnell also mentioned those incidents Monday when talking about his sons. "The Gibbs boy, that happened about a year after we moved down here (from Sumter)," Parnell said. "I knew when I saw that outpouring of support that we'd made the right decision in moving here and putting our children at LMA." Now, Parnell and his family are the recipients of that support. "We can feel a lot of prayers, and we know people loved Cody and Jessi; they touched a lot of lives," he said. "I'm thankful to everyone that's praying for us right now. It's too much to process losing both your children at once, and I'm not going to expect (understanding). Unless you're a parent, you don't know the horror of losing a child, and here we've lost two." The Parnells will receive family and friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Laurence Manning Academy gymnasium. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Thursday at the school's football field with the Rev. Ron Bower officiating. Funeral services for Hall will be held 4 p.m. Thursday at the Laurence Manning Academy gymnasium. The family will receive friends from 3 until 6 p.m. Wednesday at Bullock Funeral Home in Sumter. The family declined to comment. Staff Writer Corey Davis contributed to this report. Reach Robert J. Baker at (803) 435-8511. Posted in News, Local news on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 3 SC students killed in wreck near Manning Print Posted: Monday, October 4, 2010 6:43 am | Updated: 7:07 am, Tue Oct 5, 2010. Three South Carolina teenagers have died after their sports utility vehicle ran off a road, hit a tree and caught fire. Multiple media outlets reported the wreck happened about four miles from Manning around 7 a.m. Sunday. Clarendon County Coroner Hayes Samuels says 14-year-old Jessi Parnell and 17-year-old Cody Parnell of Manning and 15-year-old Cody Hall of Sumter died at the scene. Samuels says autopsies were planned Monday in Charleston. Highway Patrol Lance. Cpl. Josef Robinson says investigators are not sure who was driving or why the SUV ran off the road. The teens were students at Laurence Manning Academy and Headmaster Spencer Jordan says mental health professionals and clergy members would be available at the school Monday to talk with students. Posted in Ap state news on Monday, October 4, 2010 Teens in crash died from injuries, not fire Print Posted: Wednesday, October 6, 2010 6:00 am | Updated: 11:18 pm, Tue Oct 5, 2010. Robert J. Baker bbaker@theitem.com MANNING - Three Laurence Manning Academy students killed in a Sunday morning accident on Old Georgetown Road died from injuries suffered in the crash and not from the resulting fire, according to Clarendon County Deputy Coroner Charles Jackson. Jessi and Cody Parnell, 14 and 17, respectively, and Cody Hall, 15, died about 7 a.m. Sunday when a 2005 Nissan sport utility vehicle the boys were traveling in cut across the left side of Old Georgetown Road and struck a tree about four miles from Manning. Several witnesses told the South Carolina Highway Patrol the vehicle caught fire sometime after the crash, but Lance Cpl. Josef Robinson said investigators are unsure how much time elapsed between the wreck and the fire. "They were on their way to do what they loved to do," said.Jay Parnell, father to Jessi and Cody. His sons and Cody Hall were on their way to hunt Sunday when the wreck happened. The boys, he said, thought nothing of getting up early and heading outdoors to fish or hunt. Robinson said the patrol's Multi-disciplinary Accident Investigation Team is investigating possible causes of the crash. The MAIT uses state-of-the-art resources to reconstruct the scenes of complicated vehicle crashes to determine their causes, according to the patrol's website. Robinson did not say when such a reconstruction might be completed. Clarendon County Sheriff Randy Garrett said Old Georgetown Road, like its continuation of Old Manning Road in Sumter, can be treacherous. "It's a main way that many people use to get from Manning to Sumter," Garrett said. "Every county has that one road that seems to produce more fatalities than others, and that's one of ours, unfortunately." The road stretches almost 20 miles from Manning to Sumter; its two lanes buffered by idyllic, rural surroundings including farms and hunting areas. A cotton field sits a mere 20 to 30 feet from Sunday's wreck site. Although the cause of Sunday's fatal wreck has not been determined, Garrett said speeding is one of the leading factors in wrecks on rural roads like Old Georgetown Road. The posted limit for most of the road in Clarendon County's portion is 55 mph, except near churches or wide turns. "Once you get to going too fast on a road like that, you're going to have a problem if you have to slow down or stop suddenly," he said. "And the surroundings can make the road more dangerous, because anytime you have a vehicle hitting a tree, the vehicle isn't going to do too well." Garrett said his office will likely step up patrols on the road to help Highway Patrol troopers save lives. "We'll assist them in whatever way necessary to get out and tell people to slow it down so we can keep our roadways safe," Garrett said. The Parnell family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Laurence Manning Academy gymnasium; funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Thursday at the school's football field. Hall's family will receive friends from 3 to 6 p.m. today at Bullock Funeral Home in Sumter; funeral services will be held 4 p.m. Thursday at the LMA gymnasium with burial following in Evergreen Memorial Park in Sumter. Reach Robert J. Baker at (803) 435-8511. Posted in News, Local news on Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Families, school say goodbye Print Posted: Friday, October 8, 2010 6:00 am | Updated: 11:08 pm, Thu Oct 7, 2010. Robert J. Baker bbaker@theitem.com MANNING - Books and exams were set aside briefly Thursday so that Laurence Manning Academy high schoolers could say goodbye to three fellow students killed in a weekend wreck several miles away from the school. Through music, testimonies, eulogies and even a few jokes, the family and friends of Jessi and Cody Parnell and Cody Hall tried to express a grief nearly too strong for words. Jessi and Cody, 14 and 17, respectively, and Cody Hall, 15, were traveling toward Manning about 7 a.m. Sunday when the sport utility vehicle driven by the elder Parnell brother crossed to the left side of Old Georgetown Road and hit a tree, killing them, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol. Witnesses reported the car later burst into flames. "We've come here today to remember these young lives," said Headmaster Spencer Jordan at the morning service for the Parnell brothers. At the afternoon service for Cody Hall, Jordan echoed words he told Jay and Vicki Parnell earlier on LMA's football field. "I want to thank you for letting us be a part of your sons' lives," he told the Parnells and Stacey and Wesley Pack, Hall's parents. Each boy was praised as outgoing, spirited, fun-loving and caring. Brittany Odom remembered Jessi from her time teaching him last year. She said Jessi frequently entered her classroom singing Electric Light Orchestra's "Oh, oh, oh, It's Magic." "You know the song, 'Oh, oh, oh it's magic, you know. Never believe it's not so,'" said Odom. "In thinking during the past few days what I would say, I had trouble remembering any in-depth conversations I had had with Jessi that might help me, but I remembered (things like that), and I saw it as a comfort. When you believe as Jessi did that death brings our own resurrection, well, that sounds pretty magical to me that a Savior who lives forever calls us to do the same with Him." Student activities Director Ben Herod had a harder time expressing his memories of Cody Parnell. "I've known Cody for so long, I don't remember meeting him," Herod said tearfully, flanked by Jordan. "When you do meet someone, you never think you'll be asked to speak at their funeral. You live as if you'll live forever." The elder Parnell had an "unbreakable spirit," Herod said, noting he tested the 17-year-old when football practice began this year after Parnell had gotten in trouble. "When practice came around, I wore him out," he said. "And the more I did, the more he kept up, and that made me love him even more. Like most teenage boys, he did some things without thinking them all the way through and that would get him in some trouble, but you weren't going to break that spirit." Hall's service in the school's gymnasium was packed, with standing room only in the back. After thanking Hall's parents for sending him to Laurence Manning, Jordan talked briefly about Hall and his impact on the student body. "He was probably one of the most polite kids I've ever met," Jordan said. "He was dedicated and faithful to our athletics program, and I know he was a dedicated outdoorsman." Reflecting at the wreck site Monday, friend Wells Richardson, 18, said Hall was like a younger brother to many seniors at the academy. "It's sad to think that he won't be around anymore," Richardson said. "He was like a little brother to me, to a lot of us." The Rev. Ron Bower, pastor of Sumter First Church of God where the Parnells attend, said sadness is expected when loved ones pass, but that the friends and family of the Parnell brothers and Cody Hall can be comforted that the boys have peace. "I know all three boys are in heaven now," Bower said. "I know that as they breathed that last breath of sweet Manning air, they took their first breath in heaven." Reach Robert J. Baker at (803) 435-8511. Posted in News, Local news on Friday, October 8, 2010 Classifieds Place a Classified Ad Ad Market ->ANNOUNCEMENTS ->In Memory Cody Hall 03/28/95 - 10/03/10 If I could come back for just one day. I know exactly what I would say. To my family and friends and those who I loved. As a message from God who speaks from above. I would say it's okay to be sad for a while. But what I really want most is to see your smile, And for you to go on and live once again, allowing the Lord to comfort your pain. I know that you loved me with all of your heart. And that none of you wanted for me to depart. I don't quite understand it myself. But I know you'll get by with a little help. Yes, I would say to be sad for a day. And to do what you need to do. And then lift up your eyes to the wonder of the sky. And know that I loved you too. Love Mom, Wesley, Conner, & Joshua Ad# 29112545 posted on Oct 03, 2012 Classifieds Place a Classified Ad Ad Market ->ANNOUNCEMENTS ->In Memory Cody Parnell 8/23/93 -10/03/10 Jessi Parnell 9/9/96 - 10/03/10 as hard as each one is, every day is a blessing to us, because we are one day closer to being with you again. Words can never say how much we love and miss you. Mom & Dad Ad# 29112546 posted on Oct 03, 2012 5 receive scholarships named in memory of classmate ROBERT J. BAKER / THE CLARENDON SUN 5 receive scholarships named in memory of classmate The family of Michael Cody Hall - Conner, Wesley, Joshua and Tracie Pack - stands on stage as scholarships are presented to five Laurence Manning Academy students in his memory. The Rev. Arthur Sharp spoke at the 2013 Awards Night for the Pack family. BY SHARRON HALEY sharron@theitem-clarendonsun.com MANNING - Laurence Manning Academy's 2013 Senior Awards Night was a joyous night for more than 75 graduates and their families, but for one family in the audience, the night was bittersweet. Instead of watching two sons walk across the stage, the Pack family could only watch as one son, Conner Wesley Pack, attended Awards Night. Pack's stepbrother, Cody Michael Hall, a member of the Class of 2013, was killed along with two other LMA students in a vehicle accident on the Old Georgetown Road in the early morning hours of Oct. 3, 2010. On May 16, 2013, Tracie Pack, her husband Wesley, and children Joshua and Conner presented "The Cody Michael Hall Scholarship" to five members of Cody's former class: Mikayla Marie Swygert, Jonathan Andrew Miles, Nicole Elisabeth Sousa, William Van Richardson Jr., and Parker Ashton Reynolds. The Packs' minister, the Rev. Arthur Sharp, spoke on behalf of the Pack family and asked the graduates, "How is my future dependent on the choices I made today?" "This is how his faith in God started," he told them. "He was proud to be a Swampcat." Sharp referenced the book, titled "A Few More Yards," that comprises two assignments Hall wrote for his 10th-grade English teacher, Inger S. Walker, along with dozens of photographs of Hall growing up, at school, with friends and enjoying life. Proceeds from the book helped fund the five $500 scholarships that were presented at awards night. The second assignment in the book is titled "The Life of Cody Hall." The paper had been graded by Walker, but had not been returned to the teenager before his death. Walker read the essay at his funeral. In the essay, Hall projects his possible future - about graduating from school and becoming an emergency room doctor, who becomes bored with medicine, becomes a lawyer for "famous people" and makes his first billion dollars. Marriage, children and a trip to Africa also figure in the paper. During the trip, Hall writes, a lion bites him on the arm, but he fights back and kills it. With the lion's body lying at his feet, Hall watches elephants running toward him. The last line in the essay reads "Then, everything was black, and I met Jesus." Those words are immortalized on Hall's tombstone - And Then I Met Jesus. Tracie Pack says she has no doubts about where her son is. "He's in heaven looking down on us today," she said. "He found Jesus here and wasn't afraid to talk about his faith." After the Awards Night ceremony, Pack said she felt complete. "It wasn't nearly as bad as I imagined it would be," she said. "I feel good. I'm glad that we could do this for this particular class." Even though her son was killed nearly three years ago, the class has kept his memory alive, she added. "He has always been a part of this class," she said. "Through these scholarships we are able to keep his memory alive and he can live on through them." Posted in Clarendon sun on Tuesday, June 4, 2013  [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8]
  HIST	How are Tim Mitchum and Mr. and Mrs. Dean Davis his grandparents? How is Betty Guyton and Carolyn Ward his great-grandparents? He was preceded in death by grandparents, Leo Guyton and Nancy Mitchum. How are they his grandparents? jkh CODY M. HALL Cody Michael Hall, age 15, son of Stacey and Wesley Pack, died on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. He was born on March 28, 1995, in Fairbanks, Alaska, a son of Stacey Williamson Pack and Michael Gary Hall. He was a 10th grade student at Laurence Manning Academy, where he was a member of the varsity football team and played both offense and defense. He loved to hunt, fish, duck hunt and loved the outdoors. He will always be remembered as a wonderful, great son who loved his family. Surviving are his parents, Stacey and Wesley Pack; two brothers, Conner Pack and Joshua Pack; grandparents, Frank Williamson, Tim Mitchum, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Davis, and Mr. and Mrs. Hazel Pack; great-grandparents, Betty Guyton, Carolyn Ward and Mr. and Mrs. Francis Williamson; numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. He was preceded in death by grandparents, Leo Guyton and Nancy Mitchum. A funeral service will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Laurence Manning Academy gymnasium with the Rev. F. Arthur Sharpe officiating. Burial will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park in Sumter. The family will receive friends from 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at Bullock Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the Laurence Manning Academy "Athletic Program," P.O. Box 278, Manning, SC 29102. You may sign the family's guestbook at www.bullockfuneralhome.com. The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home of Sumter for the arrangements.   3 LMA students die in Sunday wreck Print Posted: Tuesday, October 5, 2010 6:00 am | Updated: 10:54 pm, Mon Oct 4, 2010. Robert J. Baker bbaker@theitem.com MANNING - Long before the bells rang Monday morning for first block at Laurence Manning Academy, three students were noticeably missing. Friends, family, faculty and staff had been gathering at the school since early Sunday morning, shortly after the three teenagers died in a wreck only three miles away. Brothers Jessi Parnell, 14, and Cody Parnell, 17, both of Arc Ave., Manning, and Cody Hall, 15, of Rockdale Blvd., Sumter, died when the 2005 Nissan sports utility vehicle they were in careened off one side of Old Georgetown Road near Bradham Road, less than four miles from downtown Manning. South Carolina Highway Patrol spokesman Lance Cpl. Josef Robinson said the wreck happened about 7 a.m. Sunday when the vehicle, heading toward Manning, crossed to the left side, hitting a tree and bursting into flames. The incident remains under investigation. Jay Parnell said his sons set out to hunt early Sunday morning after camping overnight with friends after a bonfire. He said his wife, Vicki, was expecting the boys for breakfast Sunday at their home on Lake Marion. The boys, he said, often brought home teammates from the football team each weekend to stay at the house, go hunting, eat breakfast at the house and then go out on the lake. "My wife would cook a huge breakfast, and they'd come stomping back in here at 10 a.m. and devour all the food, and she loves that," Parnell said. On Saturday night, the family had a big dinner with daughter, Leah Daly, her husband, John, and their son, Luke, 18 months, Parnell said. "(The boys) had put out corn Saturday to go deer hunting and then we had the big dinner, a great dinner," Parnell said. "After dinner, they went to a bonfire all the kids were going to and ended up camping out there," he said, noting, "they were good about calling and checking in." "Vicki woke up Sunday morning and asked what time the boys would be home for breakfast. She was going to start cooking. They were on their way to the field they'd put corn in." Parnell said the brothers were inseparable. He believes Jessi declined to play junior varsity football for Laurence Manning this year because his schedule would have conflicted with Cody's varsity games. "This was Cody's first year on varsity, and he played defensive end," Parnell said. "I think it was a combination this year of Jessi not wanting to be the underclassman on the JV team and also not wanting to be away from Cody. He elected to suck up to the coaches and become the official waterboy for the varsity team so he could be with his brother, ride the bus with the varsity team and go to all the games." Laurence Manning seniors Ben Wade and Rhett Williams, both 17, and Wells Richardson, 18, said they didn't know the Parnell boys well, but that Cody Hall was like a little brother to them. The three were joined by fellow senior Olivia Schaller, 17, at the wreck site Monday for a long moment of silence. "We hung out a lot," Williams said. "We just hung around, cutting up. They were all fun-loving guys, but I didn't know Cody Parnell or his little brother too much. I know they loved to have fun. They loved to hunt." Richardson agreed. "Cody Hall was a duck boy," he said, smiling. "He loved to duck hunt. Actually, he liked any type of hunting." Schaller held onto Richardson's arm while the group stood silently viewing the burned patch of grass and trees where the vehicle stopped. Williams had visited Sunday, but didn't want to believe his friends were gone. "I just couldn't believe it," he said. Headmaster Spencer Jordan said clergy and grief counselors were available Monday if students needed them. Richardson said school began with an assembly. Jordan said the Laurence Manning Academy family has had far too many tragedies in recent years: Ashlie Pipkin, a fifth-grade student at the school died in September 2009 from complications from H1N1; in September 2006, junior Justin Gibbs, 16, of Sumter, died on Old Manning Road in Sumter from injuries suffered in a wreck that also killed Bonnie McCauley, 46, and sent her 2-month old son, Adam, and junior Evan Prothro, 16, to a Columbia hospital in critical condition. Parnell also mentioned those incidents Monday when talking about his sons. "The Gibbs boy, that happened about a year after we moved down here (from Sumter)," Parnell said. "I knew when I saw that outpouring of support that we'd made the right decision in moving here and putting our children at LMA." Now, Parnell and his family are the recipients of that support. "We can feel a lot of prayers, and we know people loved Cody and Jessi; they touched a lot of lives," he said. "I'm thankful to everyone that's praying for us right now. It's too much to process losing both your children at once, and I'm not going to expect (understanding). Unless you're a parent, you don't know the horror of losing a child, and here we've lost two." The Parnells will receive family and friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Laurence Manning Academy gymnasium. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Thursday at the school's football field with the Rev. Ron Bower officiating. Funeral services for Hall will be held 4 p.m. Thursday at the Laurence Manning Academy gymnasium. The family will receive friends from 3 until 6 p.m. Wednesday at Bullock Funeral Home in Sumter. The family declined to comment. Staff Writer Corey Davis contributed to this report. Reach Robert J. Baker at (803) 435-8511. Posted in News, Local news on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 3 SC students killed in wreck near Manning Print Posted: Monday, October 4, 2010 6:43 am | Updated: 7:07 am, Tue Oct 5, 2010. Three South Carolina teenagers have died after their sports utility vehicle ran off a road, hit a tree and caught fire. Multiple media outlets reported the wreck happened about four miles from Manning around 7 a.m. Sunday. Clarendon County Coroner Hayes Samuels says 14-year-old Jessi Parnell and 17-year-old Cody Parnell of Manning and 15-year-old Cody Hall of Sumter died at the scene. Samuels says autopsies were planned Monday in Charleston. Highway Patrol Lance. Cpl. Josef Robinson says investigators are not sure who was driving or why the SUV ran off the road. The teens were students at Laurence Manning Academy and Headmaster Spencer Jordan says mental health professionals and clergy members would be available at the school Monday to talk with students. Posted in Ap state news on Monday, October 4, 2010 Teens in crash died from injuries, not fire Print Posted: Wednesday, October 6, 2010 6:00 am | Updated: 11:18 pm, Tue Oct 5, 2010. Robert J. Baker bbaker@theitem.com MANNING - Three Laurence Manning Academy students killed in a Sunday morning accident on Old Georgetown Road died from injuries suffered in the crash and not from the resulting fire, according to Clarendon County Deputy Coroner Charles Jackson. Jessi and Cody Parnell, 14 and 17, respectively, and Cody Hall, 15, died about 7 a.m. Sunday when a 2005 Nissan sport utility vehicle the boys were traveling in cut across the left side of Old Georgetown Road and struck a tree about four miles from Manning. Several witnesses told the South Carolina Highway Patrol the vehicle caught fire sometime after the crash, but Lance Cpl. Josef Robinson said investigators are unsure how much time elapsed between the wreck and the fire. "They were on their way to do what they loved to do," said.Jay Parnell, father to Jessi and Cody. His sons and Cody Hall were on their way to hunt Sunday when the wreck happened. The boys, he said, thought nothing of getting up early and heading outdoors to fish or hunt. Robinson said the patrol's Multi-disciplinary Accident Investigation Team is investigating possible causes of the crash. The MAIT uses state-of-the-art resources to reconstruct the scenes of complicated vehicle crashes to determine their causes, according to the patrol's website. Robinson did not say when such a reconstruction might be completed. Clarendon County Sheriff Randy Garrett said Old Georgetown Road, like its continuation of Old Manning Road in Sumter, can be treacherous. "It's a main way that many people use to get from Manning to Sumter," Garrett said. "Every county has that one road that seems to produce more fatalities than others, and that's one of ours, unfortunately." The road stretches almost 20 miles from Manning to Sumter; its two lanes buffered by idyllic, rural surroundings including farms and hunting areas. A cotton field sits a mere 20 to 30 feet from Sunday's wreck site. Although the cause of Sunday's fatal wreck has not been determined, Garrett said speeding is one of the leading factors in wrecks on rural roads like Old Georgetown Road. The posted limit for most of the road in Clarendon County's portion is 55 mph, except near churches or wide turns. "Once you get to going too fast on a road like that, you're going to have a problem if you have to slow down or stop suddenly," he said. "And the surroundings can make the road more dangerous, because anytime you have a vehicle hitting a tree, the vehicle isn't going to do too well." Garrett said his office will likely step up patrols on the road to help Highway Patrol troopers save lives. "We'll assist them in whatever way necessary to get out and tell people to slow it down so we can keep our roadways safe," Garrett said. The Parnell family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Laurence Manning Academy gymnasium; funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Thursday at the school's football field. Hall's family will receive friends from 3 to 6 p.m. today at Bullock Funeral Home in Sumter; funeral services will be held 4 p.m. Thursday at the LMA gymnasium with burial following in Evergreen Memorial Park in Sumter. Reach Robert J. Baker at (803) 435-8511. Posted in News, Local news on Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Families, school say goodbye Print Posted: Friday, October 8, 2010 6:00 am | Updated: 11:08 pm, Thu Oct 7, 2010. Robert J. Baker bbaker@theitem.com MANNING - Books and exams were set aside briefly Thursday so that Laurence Manning Academy high schoolers could say goodbye to three fellow students killed in a weekend wreck several miles away from the school. Through music, testimonies, eulogies and even a few jokes, the family and friends of Jessi and Cody Parnell and Cody Hall tried to express a grief nearly too strong for words. Jessi and Cody, 14 and 17, respectively, and Cody Hall, 15, were traveling toward Manning about 7 a.m. Sunday when the sport utility vehicle driven by the elder Parnell brother crossed to the left side of Old Georgetown Road and hit a tree, killing them, according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol. Witnesses reported the car later burst into flames. "We've come here today to remember these young lives," said Headmaster Spencer Jordan at the morning service for the Parnell brothers. At the afternoon service for Cody Hall, Jordan echoed words he told Jay and Vicki Parnell earlier on LMA's football field. "I want to thank you for letting us be a part of your sons' lives," he told the Parnells and Stacey and Wesley Pack, Hall's parents. Each boy was praised as outgoing, spirited, fun-loving and caring. Brittany Odom remembered Jessi from her time teaching him last year. She said Jessi frequently entered her classroom singing Electric Light Orchestra's "Oh, oh, oh, It's Magic." "You know the song, 'Oh, oh, oh it's magic, you know. Never believe it's not so,'" said Odom. "In thinking during the past few days what I would say, I had trouble remembering any in-depth conversations I had had with Jessi that might help me, but I remembered (things like that), and I saw it as a comfort. When you believe as Jessi did that death brings our own resurrection, well, that sounds pretty magical to me that a Savior who lives forever calls us to do the same with Him." Student activities Director Ben Herod had a harder time expressing his memories of Cody Parnell. "I've known Cody for so long, I don't remember meeting him," Herod said tearfully, flanked by Jordan. "When you do meet someone, you never think you'll be asked to speak at their funeral. You live as if you'll live forever." The elder Parnell had an "unbreakable spirit," Herod said, noting he tested the 17-year-old when football practice began this year after Parnell had gotten in trouble. "When practice came around, I wore him out," he said. "And the more I did, the more he kept up, and that made me love him even more. Like most teenage boys, he did some things without thinking them all the way through and that would get him in some trouble, but you weren't going to break that spirit." Hall's service in the school's gymnasium was packed, with standing room only in the back. After thanking Hall's parents for sending him to Laurence Manning, Jordan talked briefly about Hall and his impact on the student body. "He was probably one of the most polite kids I've ever met," Jordan said. "He was dedicated and faithful to our athletics program, and I know he was a dedicated outdoorsman." Reflecting at the wreck site Monday, friend Wells Richardson, 18, said Hall was like a younger brother to many seniors at the academy. "It's sad to think that he won't be around anymore," Richardson said. "He was like a little brother to me, to a lot of us." The Rev. Ron Bower, pastor of Sumter First Church of God where the Parnells attend, said sadness is expected when loved ones pass, but that the friends and family of the Parnell brothers and Cody Hall can be comforted that the boys have peace. "I know all three boys are in heaven now," Bower said. "I know that as they breathed that last breath of sweet Manning air, they took their first breath in heaven." Reach Robert J. Baker at (803) 435-8511. Posted in News, Local news on Friday, October 8, 2010 Classifieds Place a Classified Ad Ad Market ->ANNOUNCEMENTS ->In Memory Cody Hall 03/28/95 - 10/03/10 If I could come back for just one day. I know exactly what I would say. To my family and friends and those who I loved. As a message from God who speaks from above. I would say it's okay to be sad for a while. But what I really want most is to see your smile, And for you to go on and live once again, allowing the Lord to comfort your pain. I know that you loved me with all of your heart. And that none of you wanted for me to depart. I don't quite understand it myself. But I know you'll get by with a little help. Yes, I would say to be sad for a day. And to do what you need to do. And then lift up your eyes to the wonder of the sky. And know that I loved you too. Love Mom, Wesley, Conner, & Joshua Ad# 29112545 posted on Oct 03, 2012 Classifieds Place a Classified Ad Ad Market ->ANNOUNCEMENTS ->In Memory Cody Parnell 8/23/93 -10/03/10 Jessi Parnell 9/9/96 - 10/03/10 as hard as each one is, every day is a blessing to us, because we are one day closer to being with you again. Words can never say how much we love and miss you. Mom & Dad Ad# 29112546 posted on Oct 03, 2012 5 receive scholarships named in memory of classmate ROBERT J. BAKER / THE CLARENDON SUN 5 receive scholarships named in memory of classmate The family of Michael Cody Hall - Conner, Wesley, Joshua and Tracie Pack - stands on stage as scholarships are presented to five Laurence Manning Academy students in his memory. The Rev. Arthur Sharp spoke at the 2013 Awards Night for the Pack family. BY SHARRON HALEY sharron@theitem-clarendonsun.com MANNING - Laurence Manning Academy's 2013 Senior Awards Night was a joyous night for more than 75 graduates and their families, but for one family in the audience, the night was bittersweet. Instead of watching two sons walk across the stage, the Pack family could only watch as one son, Conner Wesley Pack, attended Awards Night. Pack's stepbrother, Cody Michael Hall, a member of the Class of 2013, was killed along with two other LMA students in a vehicle accident on the Old Georgetown Road in the early morning hours of Oct. 3, 2010. On May 16, 2013, Tracie Pack, her husband Wesley, and children Joshua and Conner presented "The Cody Michael Hall Scholarship" to five members of Cody's former class: Mikayla Marie Swygert, Jonathan Andrew Miles, Nicole Elisabeth Sousa, William Van Richardson Jr., and Parker Ashton Reynolds. The Packs' minister, the Rev. Arthur Sharp, spoke on behalf of the Pack family and asked the graduates, "How is my future dependent on the choices I made today?" "This is how his faith in God started," he told them. "He was proud to be a Swampcat." Sharp referenced the book, titled "A Few More Yards," that comprises two assignments Hall wrote for his 10th-grade English teacher, Inger S. Walker, along with dozens of photographs of Hall growing up, at school, with friends and enjoying life. Proceeds from the book helped fund the five $500 scholarships that were presented at awards night. The second assignment in the book is titled "The Life of Cody Hall." The paper had been graded by Walker, but had not been returned to the teenager before his death. Walker read the essay at his funeral. In the essay, Hall projects his possible future - about graduating from school and becoming an emergency room doctor, who becomes bored with medicine, becomes a lawyer for "famous people" and makes his first billion dollars. Marriage, children and a trip to Africa also figure in the paper. During the trip, Hall writes, a lion bites him on the arm, but he fights back and kills it. With the lion's body lying at his feet, Hall watches elephants running toward him. The last line in the essay reads "Then, everything was black, and I met Jesus." Those words are immortalized on Hall's tombstone - And Then I Met Jesus. Tracie Pack says she has no doubts about where her son is. "He's in heaven looking down on us today," she said. "He found Jesus here and wasn't afraid to talk about his faith." After the Awards Night ceremony, Pack said she felt complete. "It wasn't nearly as bad as I imagined it would be," she said. "I feel good. I'm glad that we could do this for this particular class." Even though her son was killed nearly three years ago, the class has kept his memory alive, she added. "He has always been a part of this class," she said. "Through these scholarships we are able to keep his memory alive and he can live on through them." Posted in Clarendon sun on Tuesday, June 4, 2013
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  Death	3 Oct 2010	died in the SUV, they were riding in, hit a tree and caught fire four miles from Manning on Old Georgetown Road, near Bradham Road, Clarendon County, South Carolina
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