ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Two days before Logan Thompson appeared in his first varsity football game, he knelt on the tiled floor in the master bathroom of his parents’ house picking up the fragments of the door he’d just beaten down with a baseball bat.
His father, Paul, had been on the opposite side, unconscious after suffering a stroke the morning of Oct. 3 as Logan and his younger brothers — Landen, 13, and Lancen, 8 — got ready for school.
The flashing lights took away his father. His younger brothers went to the homes of neighbors. His mother, Daniele, had left for the hospital. The house was eerily silent, and Thompson found himself alone.
Paul Thompson never missed a football game of his oldest son, Logan.
When his mother returned to the house, Logan discovered that his father, at the age of just 44, was dead. Plans needed to be made for a visitation and funeral. Relatives needed to be called. All of this flooded Daniele’s thoughts.
