Funeral scheduled for man who rescued son
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The funeral for a Mobile man who died from injuries he received when he jumped from the Little River Falls near Fort Payne to save his son from drowning has been scheduled for Wednesday.
The service for 37-year-old Patrick Edward Seibert will be held at 2 p.m. at the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception. Burial will follow at Pine Crest Cemetery.
Visitation is from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Tuesday at Pine Crest Funeral Home.
Seibert was fatally injured just after 2:30 p.m. Friday near the G.E. Hill Bridge on Alabama 35. Little River Canyon begins at the 45-foot waterfall, a popular tourist site.
The boy survived after being treated for minor injuries.
Chief Ranger Kim Kirk says the family had been hiking at the park that day.
Seibert had been a YMCA employee for about 18 years. YMCA officials say he became executive director of the North Mobile YMCA branch in Saraland in November 2006, after working at the Hearin-Chandler Family YMCA branch in west Mobile.
Sue Allen is YMCA executive director for Baldwin County and met Seibert early in his career when he began work as a personal trainer. She said Monday that Seibert loved to tease and joke around and brought “laughter and sunshine everywhere he went.”