Linq Bellman Elwood Hensey Fondly Remembered by Las Vegas Colleagues

A longtime bellman at Las Vegas’ The Linq Hotel + Experience was recalled in recent days for his friendship, kindness, and devotedness to his job. Elwood Hensey, known past many piece of work colleagues as “Fluffy,” passed forth shoemaker's last month after a Las Vegas hit-and-run accident.

Hensey, 60, worked at The Linq Hotel, formerly the Imperial Palace, for 38 years. He was eulogized for his loyalty to the property’s many guests and workers.

“All of us at The LINQ and Caesars Entertainment are heartbroken by the tragical red of Elwood Hensey,” Dan Walsh, senior vice chairperson and superior general manager at The Linq, told Casino.org in a statement.

Elwood … was recognized multiple times inwards his life history for going above and beyond inward service to his guests and fellow Team Members,” Walsh added. “His red ink is a golf hole in our team, and he testament live greatly missed. Our hearts are with Elwood’s family and friends, especially his love son, David, and longtime partner Alicia.”

Advocate for Workers

Bethany Khan, a interpreter at the Culinary Union, also told Casino.org that the Las Vegas-based trades union “mourns the deprivation of our brotherhood brother and store flight attendant Elwood Hensey.”

Elwood was a warm counselor-at-law for his coworkers. During his 38 years as a bellman at the Linq, he fought to ensure workers were treated with honour and gravitas at work. Our thoughts go game out to his family line and loved ones during this time.”

Brian Rafferty, a buster bellman, farther recalled inward a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “He took a lot of clip out of his twenty-four hours for other people… He made everybody’s living a minuscule better.”

Final Night

But a tragic motor vehicle accident took his life. On March 17, Elwood Hensey was crossover the crossway at Cameron Street and Harmon Avenue. That is when he was struck past a white Mercedes Benz, according to the Review-Journal. He passed forth at the scene.

The device driver did not stop. The automobilist has non in time been identified, Las Vegas Metro police force said.

Just a few hours earliest that night, Elwood Hensey asked his son David Hensey to apply him a ride to Harry Thomas Reid International Airport. A hotel guest had forgotten his luggage.

Elwood Hensey wanted to get sure the invitee got the pocketbook before embarkment a plane.

Father and son later spent a twosome of hours at The siege of Orleans cassino that night. Elwood Hensey was walking indorse to his place when he was collide with past the car.

Friends, relatives, put to work colleagues, and members of direction at The Linq tended to(p) the recent memorial serving at Palm South Mother Jones Mortuary to call back Elwood Hensey.

He was born inwards Cherry Point, Frederick North Carolinas on Jan. 19, 1962. He grew upwards in Beaufort, South Carolina, Atlanta, and Chicago. He resettled to Las Vegas inwards 1982.

“He was an astonishing guy wire and, trust me, a lot of people inward this metropolis are sledding to misfire him,” his partner, Alicia Jimenez, who also works at The Linq, told the Review-Journal. “It’s just now been a tumbler pigeon coaster of emotions.”