Marvin Alexan Fernandez Chicas was spending the day with his 3-year-old son Dylan and a few friends on Lake Nockamixon before the drowning.
was fishing with his young son when he sprang into action — even though he couldn’t swim.
The two children were rescued, but the 37-year-old dad disappeared into the water and died Thursday evening. “He was a man who liked fishing and that day he [was] doing what he liked together with some friends and son,” his family said in the online fundraiser.Money raised would go toward sending his body back to his mother in Honduras and to help his wife and son who he leaves behind with finances.
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