After six years of courtship, Lucas Rockett and Jennifer Sangprasert recently decided to get married next June.

Their love had spurred Rockett and Sangprasert to tattoo each other’s names on their necks and produced a little girl, Hazel Jean.

Rockett was so smitten with his bride-to-be that he planned on taking her last name as his own.

Hurricane Irma ruined all of that.

On Sept. 8, days before the monster storm wrecked the Caribbean and slammed Florida, Rockett volunteered to help Sangprasert’s father, who was putting up shutters for a family friend unable to do the work.

While standing on a ladder around 5 feet off the ground at a home in West Palm Beach, Rockett fell backwards, hitting the back of his head on concrete.

Rocket was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center, where he was diagnosed with multiple fractures of his skull.

"He was in a medically induced coma, but he was responding well to medications," Sangprasert said. "I thought he was going to be OK."

But Rockett, 26, was unable to overcome his injuries. He died on Sept. 14 at St. Mary’s.

At least 40 people have died in Florida as a result of Hurricane Irma.

The Florida Department of Emergency Management lists four deaths attributable to the hurricane in Palm Beach County through Tuesday. While a detailed breakdown was not immediately available Friday, that does not include a Loxahatchee man who died Saturday after carbon monoxide worked its way into a house from a generator set up next to a garage. A woman also died and two other people were hospitalized in that incident.

Rockett and Sangprasert met six years ago in Ocala. If it wasn’t love at first sight, it was close. When Sangprasert left to work in Alaska, Rockett followed her.

Not long after they began dating, they tattooed each other’s first name on their necks in their own handwriting.

"His handwriting is a little sloppy, so we practiced it until we got a decent one," Sangprasert said.

Their relationship, Sangprasert said through tears, was "until death. I was just hoping it would be longer than what it was."

With 16-month-old Hazel Jean in tow. Rockett and Sangprasert returned to Florida last year. They moved into her parents’ home in Loxahatchee a few weeks ago.

To make ends meet, Rockett worked at different jobs ranging from chef to handyman to tree service. The couple was just getting started but dreamed of a day they could spend summers in Alaska with Hazel and winters in Florida.

First, they set a date to get married — June 15, 2018. The day was special to the couple because it marked Rockett’s birthday and also the anniversary of their first date.

"Now, I’m sorry we didn’t do it sooner." Sangprasert said.

Hazel is too young to realize what happened to her father. But Sangprasert starts each day by showing Hazel a photo on her cell phone of Rocket holding his baby.

"She kisses it every morning and says, ‘Daddy,’ " Sangprasert said.

A GoFundMe account originally set up to help pay for Rockett’s medical expenses has now been re-purposed as a college fund for Hazel. As of Friday, nearly $5,000 has been raised.

A celebration of Rockett’s life will take place in Ocala on Sept. 30.

"He was a great guy who lit up a room and was a great boyfriend and father," Sangprasert said. "He didn’t deserve this."