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James Koroll spent the better part of two weeks searching for the unknown person who helped his father during the last moments of his life, because he wanted to say thanks.

On Tuesday, he got that chance.

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“I just got to know her, she got to know me a little bit — it was really, really good,” Koroll said of his meeting with Kim Pratt, the no-longer-unidentified Good Samaritan who stopped to help a man in need.

“You just get to know the finality, the full story … You picture the worst, right? Struggling, flailing. But it was just really nice to know he was just basically sleeping. Yeah, it does give a lot of closure.”

Koroll’s father, 61-year-old Patrick Cashman, died while driving on Millar Avenue near Marquis Drive around 4 p.m. on Nov. 2. Cashman had just parted ways with a friend after loading some lumber; he was found unresponsive behind the wheel.

Photo by James Koroll / Saskatoon

After learning that one or more people stopped to assist Cashman that afternoon, Koroll began searching for the Good Samaritans — first in a post on the website Reddit, and later in a Saskatoon StarPhoenix article.