He and his wife had four children, and “his family was his greatest joy, and he cherished every moment he was able to spend with them,” the friend wrote on GoFundMe. “He was the kind of husband and father who loved deeply, showed up fully, and made his family the center of his world.”
Matheson’s death comes a week after a 31-year-old mother and her 2-year-old daughter were struck and killed by lightning in Margate, Patch previously reported.