Woodward residents make handmade casket for brother
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February 26, 2017
WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) — It was just a statement made between two brothers.
About a year and two months ago Chris and Donald Hobbs were spending time together in the way brothers do, working quietly shoulder to shoulder, breathing the same air, drinking the same brand of beer.
"It was Christmas before last and I was building gun cabinets out of cedar and he saw what I was doing and said, 'I like this. When I die just build me a casket out of this,'" said Chris Hobbs of Woodward.
And so since Feb. 13 around 4 p.m. Chris Hobbs spent 36 hours doing just that for his brother who died suddenly over t...
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