“Me, being a brother, there’s only a few brothers up here,” Lamar said with a laugh.
“He came up to me, said, ‘Hey man, you from Louisiana?’ ” recalled Lamar, who replied with a yes.
“I got super excited, man … After that we just started to kick it, we became best friends.”
Montgomery was a chef who’d moved north from New Orleans and ended up running The Big Easy Kitchen in Regina where he lived with his wife and two young daughters.
On Tuesday, Lamar and other friends got the devastating news Montgomery had died after being admitted to a Regina intensive care unit with COVID-19.
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