A 58-year-old Kent resident, Daryl Cranshaw, died Friday evening after being struck by a train on West James Street and 1st Avenue North.
According to Cranshaw’s daughter, Kesha Calhoun, he had just returned from work at the veterans hospital located in the Beacon Hill area of Seattle. Cranshaw had gone to a grocery store and was on his way home to his wife of 37 years, Mary.
Calhoun said her father was on the phone with his wife.
“She heard the train and then the phone went dead,” Calhoun said.
According to Calhoun they believe Cranshaw was crossing the tracks.
“From what I heard he thought he could make it (across the tracks) and couldn’t,” Calhoun said.
She said her mother did not know what happened to her husband, but heard a news report that someone was hit by a train in Kent.
Calhoun said she went to find out where her father was and had her mother stay home.
“I went to the police,” Calhoun said. “They told me to sit down after gave them my information. Then two police officer came out and told me.”
The family gathered Saturday at about 1:30 p.m. for a memorial at the tracks where Cranshaw died. Cranshaw’s wife, children, grandchildren and other relatives spent some time grieving and talking around a flower memorial at the tracks.
Kent Regional Fire Authority emergency personnel responded to the call at about 9 p.m. Friday.
Kent man fatally hit by train Friday while crossing tracks | Family gathers for memorial
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