Stephen Kirk Conway loved his friends. He loved singing Faith Hill in his red Sunbird with them on the way home from a night dancing at Club Luxor. 

That is how his friends, Dakota Nicole Savage and Heather Ethridge, said they will remember him. 

Conway was killed on Friday night after officials with the Lubbock Police Department said he stopped on the shoulder of North Loop 289 to help a family in need. LPD said a van driven by Raul Garibay III ran into Conway and two others. Conway died at the scene, another man was taken to the hospital and the third man was uninjured. 

“I think that he would have hoped that the family he stopped to help is doing well,” Savage said.

“That would be his first question,” Ethridge agreed.  “Is everybody else OK?”

Savage and Ethridge described their friend as ‘generous,’ ‘selfless’ and had ‘an enormous heart.’ 

“He touched so many people for so many years,” Ethridge said. If you have an important date- something that came up, like you were graduating college or you had a birthday or somebody you loved was in town, Christmas, Christmas was his favorite, but he never forgot any of those things.”
 
Conway died two days before December 25th, but neither Savage nor Ethridge learned about Conway’s fate until Christmas morning.
 
“It was tough to walk in and hear that Christmas morning knowing you have a present for him under the tree that he’s not ever going to get,” Ethridge said. 
 
“When I found out that he was gone,” Savage started through tears. “The emotions actually kept coming, and then when I found out how it was, it kind of put it at ease. I wouldn’t have expected anything less.”
 
A memorial service will be held for Conway at Hillcrest Funeral Home in Littlefield at 2 pm on Friday. Club Luxor will be collecting donations throughout the weekend to go towards Conway’s funeral expenses.