Story Created:
May 20, 2008 at 9:44 PM CDT
Story Updated:
May 20, 2008 at 10:33 PM CDT
WICHITA, Kansas, May 20, 2008 -- On the finger of Sharron Fisher's left hand is the engagement ring Shawn Ormsbee gave her when he proposed Friday, three days before he died in an apartment fire.
"The very last thing he said to me was I am so happy now and he was like I love you Sharron,” she recalls. “And we laid there for a second and we smelled something."
A quick check revealed the stairwell leading up to their apartment was on fire.
"I told him we have got to jump," Sharron said before running to her second floor balcony.
"I though he was behind me cause I went on ahead and went over and he came out I don't think he saw me because I was like dangling on the balcony and he looked around and he hurried up and ran back in the apartment and I was like why?" she said.
Sharron dropped to the ground. By the time she got up, their entire apartment was engulfed in flames.
“The thing was I was just lying in the grass screaming because I didn't know if he knew I went over the rail or if he went to get a sheet or something to tie so we could slide down. I still to this day do not know why he ran back in."
So now, instead of planning a wedding, Sharron Fisher is planning a funeral.
"He cared about life and he was very forgiving, very patient,” she said. “In all ways he was beautiful."
"My twin brother is gone; you know I feel half of me is gone,” added Shawn’s twin sister Kimberly. “My half is gone he was my best friend."
Just about everything's gone: the apartment Sharron and Shawn shared, their belongings, their life together, everything except the ring that Sharron somehow found among the ashes.
"You know that's the only thing I have left of him,” she said.