The car Suzie Kincaid drove through downtown Akron, Iowa, was one her father had built from the ground up. On a recent Sunday, it carried 78-year-old PeeWee Kincaid, a longtime mechanic in hospice care, around town as dozens of cars gathered on Reed Street for the ride he had requested.
According to KTIV, the event was organized specifically as a final wish for Kincaid, and friends, family, and car enthusiasts traveled to Akron from across the region to take part. Kincaid had told people simply, “I'd like to ride around Akron in an old car,” as reported by KCAU9. What came back to him was a street full of vehicles, old and new, parked bumper to bumper in his honor.
A Mechanic's Legacy, Rolling Through Town
Kincaid spent his working life as a mechanic and owned 13 race cars, according to the local reporting; 12 were painted his favorite color, purple. Purple was also the color of the car Suzie drove that day, a vehicle Kincaid had built himself years before the gathering.
Suzie drove her father through the crowd, giving him the ride he had asked for. Afterward, she called him “an amazing man.”
One Last Burnout
During the ride, Kincaid made one more request. Suzie recalled: “He said, ‘Burn them all. Do a burnout,’” and, “So I did, right here, and he loved it.” The burnout happened during Suzie’s drive through the event.
The gathering didn't happen by accident. St. Croix Hospice helped spread the word about the event, per the same account, turning a quiet personal wish into a Sunday the whole town showed up for. Kincaid’s wife, Sherri McKee, said the scene was “like a dream come true.”
What hospice support can—and cannot—tell us
For general context, Medicare describes hospice as care and support for people who are terminally ill, with a life expectancy of six months or less if the illness runs its normal course, and for their families. That general definition does not establish Kincaid’s individual prognosis or coverage. The Akron report says St. Croix Hospice helped spread the word, but does not establish that the organization has a formal wish-fulfillment program. In a separate example, KEYC News Now reported that hospice volunteer Kasey Kamholz proposed a fishing outing for patient Don Dierking in Waseca, Minnesota, and worked with the St. Croix Hospice team to arrange it.
Local outlets reported on the Akron gathering before GodTube picked up the story.
