14-Year-Old Boy 'Full of Adventure' Dies 2 Days After He Was Rescued from Sand Hole in Rural Minn.

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A teen boy, who was rescued last week after getting buried in a sand hole he’d been digging in rural Minnesota, has died.

A 911 call was made around 5:30 p.m. to report that “a 14-year-old male victim was stuck in a sand hole covered in sand,” Wabasha County Chief Deputy Jim Warren said in a statement, theRochester Post-Bulletinreports.

Flaxbeard, of Kellogg, Minn., was pulled from the sand hole and flown to Mayo Clinic Hospital-Saint Marys, where he remained in serious condition before dying of his injuries two days later.

Anonline obituary posted for Flaxbearddescribes him as “a kind and compassionate young man” who was “full of adventure and new ideas.” Flaxbeard was friendly and helpful, loved church, youth group and related activities, loved ones wrote.

He had three siblings as well as “many animals he cared for at his home,” according to the notice.

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The teen was an organ and tissue donor, according to the obituary, which says his family hopes that final act of generosity will provide “the gift of life to many.”

“This is something he would be proud of,” says the notice. “Hunter will live on in the hearts of his family and friends, and the donor recipients he never met.”

Funeral services for Flaxbeard will be held on Saturday, April 8, 2023, at Church of Christ in Plainview.

source: people.com