Strickland's Widow on Husband's Final Moments: 'I Know He Saw Jesus'
The wife of 29-year-old country singer Craig M. Strickland says searchers have found his body. He went missing last week after he went duck hunting with a friend at Kaw Lake in Oklahoma.
Helen Strickland posted online, "They found him lying in the shape of a cross looking up to his Father."
The body of Strickland's hunting partner, Chase Morland, 22, was recovered Dec. 28.
Strickland says it appears her husband was able drag himself out of the lake before dying.
"The night of the accident he had fought his way out of the water and up a hill before the stages of hypothermia set in. He experienced no pain in his final moments and simply felt like he was falling asleep," she said.
Strickland testified online, saying, "I know he saw Jesus at that moment when he laid down and walked arm in arm with Him into a better Everlasting Life."
Craig Strickland was the lead singer of the Arkansas-based country-rock band Backroad Anthem.
Morland tweeted ahead of their hunt suggesting the pair knew the danger.
"In case we don't come back, BackroadCRAIG and I are going right through (the storm) to kill ducks in Oklahoma #IntoTheStorm," Morland tweeted.
A powerful weather system blasted Oklahoma with high winds during the Christmas weekend. Searchers found the pair's boat Dec. 27, the same day the two disappeared.
