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By Nicholas M. Horrock
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
For Dylan Matthew Corbin’s mother the outpouring of an estimated 1,000 of his neighbors, friends and classmates at the “celebration” of his life last Saturday on the football field of Rappahannock County High School eased the pain of his loss.
Dylan, 16, died Dec. 30 when a car driven by his brother, Nathan Corbin, 18, also a Rappahannock high school student, went off the road, over an embankment and struck a tree. Dylan was pronounced dead at the scene.
Nathan is hospitalized with injuries at the INOVA hospital in Fairfax and was unable to attend the memorial service. Rappahannock County High School principal Roger Mello said he is improving and may be able to leave the hospital as early as Jan. 12.
Mello said in an interview that even in the emergency room as one of her sons lay dead and the other seriously injured, Diana Corbin knew that family and friends should come together at the school where all five children had attended and where Dylan had become a football hero.
She asked Mello and assistant principal Mike Tupper if the family could hold a service at the school. “We stood ready to help,” Mello said.
What came of that plan, would not be a memorial service, the Corbins decided, but a celebration of “a life that touched many people over the course of
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