The first man who died in Hartshorne over Halloween weekend was laid to rest Nov. 6, with hundreds still in disbelief over what happened during an annual drag race festival.

Justin Faulkner was downright cherished in Hartshorne, literally leaving his mark on the town and the school up to his tragic death Oct. 31 while volunteering for the H-Town Throwdown drag races.

"He's the poster child of what you'd want of a small town guy," Hartshorne Public Schools superintendent Jason Lindley told 2 News.

Nicknamed "Fancypants", friends and colleagues said Faulkner was a lot more than a former volunteer firefighter, though even that would've painted a legacy.

"He brought life to any event that we were in," the high school assistant boys basketball coach Jim Curliss said. "He always had a smile

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