Loss of son to addiction sparks outreach for parents

  • Sherry and Rick Mills of Palatka hold a picture of their son, Jesse McGraw, who died Oct. 4, 2021, in Knoxville, TN, from a fentanyl-laced drug overdose.
    Sherry and Rick Mills of Palatka hold a picture of their son, Jesse McGraw, who died Oct. 4, 2021, in Knoxville, TN, from a fentanyl-laced drug overdose.
  • Photo courtesy of Sherry Mills -- Sherry Mills takes a photo of the digital billboard sign in Ocala that she and her husband, Rick, helped pay for along with 50 other families who lost loved ones to fentanyl overdoses.
    Photo courtesy of Sherry Mills -- Sherry Mills takes a photo of the digital billboard sign in Ocala that she and her husband, Rick, helped pay for along with 50 other families who lost loved ones to fentanyl overdoses.
  • Passerbys who see the digital billboard sign stop and put the names of their loved ones who also overdosed on fentanyl on rocks in their memory.
    Passerbys who see the digital billboard sign stop and put the names of their loved ones who also overdosed on fentanyl on rocks in their memory.
Jesse McGraw is remembered as a passionate and creative young man who loved to travel, draw, surf, build things, be outdoors and play the guitar. “He was self-taught,” said his mother, Sherry Mills…

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