and also bill halliman. her husband is currently undergoing surgery now, and if you'd like to talk to them they'll be available here. and i'm going to coordinate that with katy riley here, our p.o. officer. so we'll go ahead and excuse the physicians out of here, but we'll go ahead and start with mrs. stoddard's family. if you'd like to come up. what you can do, ma'am-s you can start off way statement if you'd like or we can go into some questions and answers. >> i'd like to start with a statement. >> yes, please. >> thank you for being here. we've been rather hesitant to discuss this. i think my first statement, our first statement as a family, we speak for dorwin's daughters, four sons, as well as our sisters. there are four of us. i think our first statement would be we'd like to compliment the hero that lie in our father and we're just blessed that he's walking with the lord now, but what a way to go.