Husband finds wife dead minutes from home after she doesn’t return from walk, he says
A Kentucky man said his wife went out for her “usual afternoon walk” one day and never returned. Then he found her face-down in the grass.
Larry Preble said he grew concerned Nov. 11 when it started to get dark and his wife, 75-year-old Margaret (Peggy) Preble, still wasn’t home, he said in Nov. 14 Facebook post.
Larry Preble said he checked her location using Apple’s “Find My” phone feature to see she was “just five minutes away” from their La Grange home.
“But she didn’t show,” he said in the post. “I got in my car, slowly drove up the road, and found her – face down in the grass.”
Larry Preble said he noticed blood and that his wife had no pulse and was not breathing. While he began CPR, a bystander called 911 and another helped with life-saving measures, the man said.
Emergency responders arrived, but Larry Preble said “she was already gone.”
“I lost the love of my life,” the husband said. “She was my wife, my tandem partner, and my very best friend.”
According to him, pieces of the front of a car were “strewn for hundreds of feet up the road.”
Officers responding to the scene at 7 p.m. determined Margaret Preble was fatally hit by a vehicle that left the scene, according to a Nov. 11 news release from the Oldham County Police Department.
Police said the incident remains under investigation and ask anyone with information to call the Oldham County Police Department at 502-222-1300.
