SHEFFIELD, Ala. (WHNT) — William Michael Sandlin and Edison Kim Wallace were both killed in a boating accident Saturday evening.

“He was just absolutely one of a kind,” Riley Vaughn, Michael Sandlin's oldest daughter, said.

Sandlin was a father, a grandpa, and an avid fisherman.

“If there wasn’t football or a game to be played, he was on the river; he knew the river like the back of his hand, he knew the river better than he knew driving down the road; they fished anytime they had a chance, they fished,” Vaughn said.

Sandlin was taken too soon, after the boating incident Saturday evening on Pickwick Lake, which also killed his best friend, Kim Wallace.

“Both of them passing together, it was just a double blow, but if it was going to happen, they would want to go together and doing wha

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