Alabama man suffers fatal heart attack as he saves five-year-old grandson's life on family vacation

A grandfather successful Alabama has been hailed a leader aft suffering a bosom onslaught erstwhile he saved his grandson during a family vacation.

The family of Charles 'Chuck' Graves are near grieving aft nan 75-year-old saved his five-year-old grandson from drowning. 

Graves had noticed nan kid had been pulled into a existent and swept into waters disconnected Dauphin Island, Alabama. 

He dove successful and swam retired to nan boy, bringing him backmost to safer waters earlier handing him to a relative. 

Graves instructed them to return to shore, but didn't follow. Family members knew thing other was incorrect and were initially acrophobic he was drowning. 

First responders pulled Graves retired and he was flown to infirmary successful a helicopter, wherever he arrived successful captious condition. 

The heroic grandfather had endured a fatal bosom onslaught aft redeeming nan boy. 

'We think... Chuck already knew thing was incorrect aliases that thing was happening because he ne'er made an effort to aquatics in, moreover though he was retired of harm's measurement already,' told Grave's daughter-in-law, Valerie Belt, to WALA. 

The family said that Grave's last enactment demonstrated really important family was to him, Belt had said really 'he loved them all'. 

'That was ever nan 1 thing. He was decidedly 1 of a kind,' Belt added. 

Graves was calved and raised successful Paducah, Kentucky, earlier moving to Estero, Florida, nan family were visiting nan formation picnic spot connected October 9.  

The grandfather near down a son, 2 daughters, 4 grandchildren and his wife, Maura. Belt said that he had made a constituent of travelling and doting connected his family, particularly aft he had retired from nan US Navy aft 4 years of service. 

'He conscionable wanted each of his kids together each nan time,' Belt told nan outlet. 

According to his obituary, Graves retired to Florida and spent overmuch of his clip connected nan h2o 'trying to drawback that large fish'. He and his woman joined successful 1975, and nan brace would person celebrated their 50th wedding day successful January.

His obituary reiterated that thing was much important to him than his family, and a Celebration of Life will beryllium held aft his cremation arsenic he wished.