He was a John Deere man with a dog named Jack.
“Corky loved being on his tractor and he loved that dog,” his wife Pauline Barnett said with tearful emotion. “His garden, his cows, cutting and baling hay, he loved it all. We prayed for a miracle, but a miracle didn’t come.”
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