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"Holding a tourniquet on his leg, he told them they needed to come to California — and soon. Schoonover, who was pursuing a master’s in vocal performance at UCLA, had been driving his motorcycle to the final dress rehearsal of an opera he was performing in when he was involved in a crash.

“'When I was on the freeway and I saw my leg, I was like, ‘I’m never walking on that again,’ he told the Deseret News. 'When I woke up that next morning, actually, I couldn’t feel my leg, and I thought they had amputated it. But really, I had just done such great nerve damage, and there was a bunch of ice packed around it, so I couldn’t really see (it).'"

Read more about Garrett Schoonover and his journey to the Paralympics.

‘He was a collector of people; he loved people so much’

Lee Benson writes: "I found this out in 1998 when Gary and Rose moved into the office next door to mine in the Deseret News building on First South — and he collected me.

"No matter how busy he was, no matter how many papers he was juggling, he would always, and I mean always, make it a point to say hello and stop and talk as he was rushing past my door.

"Thus began a friendship that, thanks to Gary and Rose, lasted the next quarter-century.

Gary was the kind of person who would say, 'let’s do lunch' and mean it."

Read more about how Gary Neeleman is being remembered.

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