For 42 years, radio host Bill Mack comforted sorrowful listeners and dedicated songs of faith in the lonely world of the all-night trucking show.
Now, he and his family are grieving the loss of his own great-granddaughter’s family in a deadly crash with a broken-down armored truck.
At 84, the “Midnight Cowboy” is now mostly a Facebook cowboy. His post Friday night stunned fans worldwide:
“You may have taken note of the many news reports mentioning a tragic accident that occurred Thursday … The baby, 8-month-old Keira, is our great-granddaughter.”
Keira Adkison’s mother and her parents were killed instantly. The baby survived in her rear-facing car seat, and is hospitalized in Dallas with head injuries. She has only her father left: Nick Adkison of Midlothian, grandson of Mack’s first wife, Jackie.
Mack and his wife, Cindy, had missed the phone calls and heard late Thursday. A caller told him how Carolyn Adkison, 34, died along with Carolyn Lewis, 67, and Thomas Lewis, 69, of Oak Point in Denton County, but “the baby is alive.”
