The Savage family story struck a nerve in the community. Parents were terrified. If this could happen to Nick and Jack — star athletes with good grades who went to church and volunteered — it could happen to any of their kids.
Two brothers, hockey players, dead on same day of opioid overdose. ‘It was just a horrible, horrible morning.’GRANGER, Ind. — There were chores to do that Sunday morning and Becky Savage had started them. She was plucking up pieces of clothes strewn about the house — a house full of four boys — to load a heap of laundry into the washing machine.
Saturday had been busy. Jack and his older brother, Nick, 19, had gone that morning to the job they shared moving furniture for a motor home manufacturer. "I made eye contact with them," Becky said."We had a 2-story foyer and I remember them coming in and I was looking at them and they headed into the kitchen to make a snack."
Becky didn't even make a move for the basement when she realized what was going on. Her world was crashing in on her. Two of her boys not waking up? She didn't want to see Nick like she was seeing Jack. She does know that Nick and Jack drank alcohol that night, which she believes impaired their decision-making and prompted them to try the pills.
The question brings a sweet smile to her face. She's sitting in the kitchen of her Granger home, an incredible look of peace on the face of a mother who has endured so much. Matthew, Sept. 5, 2003:"He rounds out the group. He complements everybody, all of them wrapped into one. So we kind of got a bonus there. I see a lot of Nick and Jack in Matthew, which is nice."All the brothers liked to fish at the lake home, where the family spent summers. They liked to go tubing and wake surfing, anything to do with a boat. They liked dirt bikes, anything outdoors.
Jack Savage was aggressive and brilliant on the ice as a forward, playing for the Penn Kingsmen club.And they were good. Really good. Nick and Jack didn't just play locally. They were on teams made up of the best hockey players in the state. "I often think what I would give up to just have 10 seconds," he said."You'd give everything up for 10 seconds, just 10 seconds."Mike rushed home that Sunday in June from the lake house. He didn't know what had happened, only that Becky had gotten in touch with a neighbor at the lake who told him there was an emergency at home.
Every single time, as she stands on stage, she looks into the audience and says to herself: "There is a Nick or Jack out there somewhere." Justin and Matthew love to see the impact their two older brothers are making, even though their deaths are still so painful. So raw.
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