GMC Sierra truck link to woman's memories of dead father - CBC.ca
It's been nine years since Danielle Dempsey's dad died, but she still can hear the sound of his 1998 GMC Sierra truck coming to pick her up. 80s music blaring through open windows. "I think of the truck and I think of my dad — it's a part of him, really. "He got really sick and his truck was the last thing he held onto," she said. Father and daughter ended up spending a lot of time in the truck after Dempsey's parents divorced and her dad worked at a delivery business in Red Deer. Dempsey has posted pictures on social media of the truck as it looked when her family sold it to someone in Edmonton after her father's death, in the hope that someone will recognize it and get in touch. Decked out with cobra license plates, a cartoon shark decal holding a pool cue on the back window are details separating the GMC Sierra from hundreds of others. extra touches Dempsey hopes will prompt someone to identify the truck. "It would just be so neat to say, 'You know, here was your grandpa Patch's truck,'" she said, referring to her sons, who never met her father. "It will definitely give me closure … at least I'll know, at least I'll have that closure to it. ". Source: www.cbc.ca
