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Accident brings sculptor together with boy

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ATLANTA - Seven-year-old Jordan Curtis and sculptor Andy Davis never crossed paths until a tragic accident brought them together. <br> <br> Jordan was killed in June when a falling Wal-Mart sign struck him after a stolen tour bus crashed into it in Stockbridge. He suffered severe head injuries resulting in his death on Father&#39;s Day. <br> <br> Jordan and his mother, twenty-seven-year-old Wende Curtis, were on their way to his Little League game when they stopped at Wal-Mart. He was her only child. A few days later, Davis read about the tragedy. <br> <br> As a tribute, the forty-year-old sculptor created a 44-inch-tall clay memorial of Jordan that will be placed at the boy&#39;s burial site in Lewisburg, Tennessee, where Jordan&#39;s mother grew up. <br> <br> The memorial, titled ``Forever at Bat,&#39;&#39; will be cast in bronze. <br> <br> Davis has donated most of his time to making the sculpture but nearly $8,000 is needed to pay for the bronze casting. <br> <br> Dee McGhee -- Jordan&#39;s great-aunt -- is organizing a fund-raiser to be held at Davis&#39; studio in Atlanta. <br> <br> A Tennessee funeral home donated the 625-square-foot burial site, which was transformed into a miniature infield, with Jordan buried under home plate.
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