Area students hear how daughter's loss still haunts father
Todd Calfee speaks to middle school students about his
daughter, Alexis, who was killed by a drunk driver, and
the effect it has had on his family.
DAVENPORT — Todd Calfee was once the kind of guy who had endless energy and was willing to do anything for anyone. Now he struggles to even get out of bed.
Calfee, a 43-year-old advertising executive from Lincoln, shared Tuesday afternoon with 127 seventh- and eighth-grade students how his life was destroyed after a drunk driver killed his daughter, Alexis, and her boyfriend, Chris Oberg, on Sept. 9, 2011, in a crash near Emerson.
Calfee was the guest speaker at the second annual Thayer County Middle School Health Fair, organized by the Thayer County Healthy Communities Coalition, at the Bruning-Davenport Middle School in Davenport.
“The scream my mom and dad made was horrendous,” he said. “I’ll remember that for the rest of my life.”
Todd Calfee speaks to middle school students about his
daughter, Alexis, who was killed by a drunk driver, and
the effect it has had on his family.
Calfee, a 43-year-old advertising executive from Lincoln, shared Tuesday afternoon with 127 seventh- and eighth-grade students how his life was destroyed after a drunk driver killed his daughter, Alexis, and her boyfriend, Chris Oberg, on Sept. 9, 2011, in a crash near Emerson.
Calfee was the guest speaker at the second annual Thayer County Middle School Health Fair, organized by the Thayer County Healthy Communities Coalition, at the Bruning-Davenport Middle School in Davenport.
“The scream my mom and dad made was horrendous,” he said. “I’ll remember that for the rest of my life.”
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