Red Bay mourns teen killed in wreck

By Staff
Jonathan Willis
Dale Jeffreys will always remember the look in Terry Wilemon's eyes each time he stepped on to the football field.
The Red Bay coach has had hundreds of players in his 20 plus years in the profession, but only a handful have been like Wilemon.
"He played hard all the time. He never took a down off," Jeffreys said Friday afternoon as he remembered the 18 year-old high school junior.
Wilemon was killed in a car wreck Wednesday just across the state line in Itawamba County, Miss.
Wilemon would have been a third-year starter at linebacker and right guard this fall for the Tigers.
"He was probably our best player," Jeffreys said.
"I had nominated him for a couple of All-State teams."
But, that's not what matters now. It is his impact away from the field that is being felt these days.
"He was just a great kid. I can't say enough about him," Jeffreys said.
"Me and my family were in Orange Beach when I got the call and we came home the next day. He was probably as close to my wife as he was me. He was just real special to us all"
The coach said Wilemon was close to several people on the team and in the school.
"It is a tragedy for our whole community," he said. "Our kids are all just devastated."
Funeral services for Wilemon were held Saturday in Red Bay.