Farewell to a Packers fan

We saw this in a story about a traffic accident in New Athens, Ill., southeast of St. Louis.

Thomas Haggard, 55, of New Athens, was killed Saturday when a truck in which he was riding went off a bridge.

Monica Haggard told the Belleville (Ill.) Daily News that her uncle, who worked as a plasterer, had been building a Packers room in his home.

"He loved football and he was just crazy over the Green Bay Packers," she said. "He just finished that room. Just finished it."

-- Jeff Ash, jash@greenbaypressgazette.com