Addiction Recovery Advocate Dies While Saving Others From Whirlpool In Spring River

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UPDATE -- Someone who lived to serve others died this weekend doing just that. Arkansas Game and Fish believe a sinkhole killed a kayaker on the Spring River in north Arkansas after it created a whirlpool.

Donny Wright wasn't a stranger to outdoors and especially water. He's kayaked before, but this Saturday, June 9, he died while helping others.

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"He was an amazing Godly man, a big old hippie. He loved the outdoors, he loved tie die, he loved his hair being long," said Wright’s daughter, Selah Neal.

Neal and her brother Levi Wright told us that during their father’s life he helped thousands of people. He helped people with addiction recovery through his Life Recovery Center, which he opened in his own Searcy home two years ago.

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Game and Fish report a sinkhole opened up creating this whirlpool. Wright, while saving the life of someone else who was being sucked in, was pulled in himself.

"His kayak overturned and he couldn’t get out from under it," said Neal.

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