Being diagnosed with terminal lung and brain cancer. The illness meant that Stanley was eventually incapacitated and forced to use a respirator to breathe. When it progressed to this stage, his brother-in-law, Michael Smith, got in touch with a local biker named David Thompson.
“I was contacted this morning about 6:30 this morning by Mike Smith through Facebook – and he informed me about Jon, you know he’s terminal, and he’s not looking really good, and one of his wishes was to hear a bunch of motorcycles out his window,” Thompson said.
In response to this request, Thompson put out an open call on the website for bikers to surround Stanley’s house in South Bend, Indiana. Just 6 hours after asking bikers to assemble, 200 of them on more than 100 bikes turned up outside Stanley’s home.
The touching incident happened on June 12, 2017. Stanley was then taken outside by his family and put into a sidecar so that he could not only hear the roar of the Harley-Davidsons but feel their vibrations too.
> _One of the bikers Pat Schoff Gragg, said: You could tell he enjoyed the feeling of that one last rumble. He was holding on._
A few hours after having his last wish fulfilled, Jon passed away in his wife’s arms.