C O L B Y ' S    S T O R Y

 

If you had the pleasure of knowing Colby before his accident, you would be smiling because he always had a way to make you laugh. His accident occurred at Tillman's Corner in Mobile, Alabama on February 24, 2004. When I think of my son, Colby, I think of his friends and how much he thoroughly loved his friends. As part of Colby's testimony, Colby now has three young boys named after him. Colby embodies a wonderful testimony to his life, but it doesn't stop there...

My father died five days before Colby after a long battle with lung cancer. The last time I saw my son was at my mother's house after my dad's funeral. He was called up on active duty as an E-5 in the Army due to leave in a few months to Desert Storm. I was scared for him but also proud as we have three generations of military men in our family. The very last conversation I had with my son was the evening he passed on his way home from Mobile. I said to him, "Son, you be careful. The roads are really wet." He replied, "Momma, I will be fine. I am in my new truck." I felt something make me pause and I said, "Colby, do you know you belong to the Lord?" He responded quickly, "Yes ma'am, I know I do. Momma, I love you." I said, "Son, I love you, too."

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OUR STORY CONTINUES

 

I was given the opportunity to open a restaurant in Ozark, Alabama in 2008, and we named it Colby's. I had been praying about Service, but I had never even considered God putting me in the restaurant business. I wasn't sure that I even liked the idea, but none the less I knew it was what I was supposed to do. I prayed to God, "God, if Colby's birthday is on a Monday, we shall open on his birthday." It seemed fitting since we named the restaurant after him. On June 9th, 2008, we opened in Ozark.

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I received a call again with another opportunity to open in Dothan, Alabama. I prayed about it, and I felt I should "Follow the Testimony." We were health approved the day before Colby's birthday, so we opened on June 9th, 2010 in the historical downtown building.

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A wonderful person and previous owner of this building died, Chip George, well-known in Dothan, Alabama and a huge asset to downtown Dothan. I was asked to buy the building, and on June 9th, 2012, we closed on the original JC Penny's building. I felt inclined to rename the building, so that evening we hung our new sign "The Colby Building" on my son's birthday.

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When Colby passed I wrote a song about him, and the first verse talks about dropping a dime. No one knew this except me. My friend, Dani, out of the blue, texted me and said... "When you find a dime, you'll know it is your Colby, and he is near." Now I find dimes and a great deal of them here at "The Colby Building". We all have a testimony in our lives. I would encourage everyone to become an "Overcomer" from your "Testimony".