By:JOSEPH KELLARD and KIMBERLY ACEVEDO
Doris Hebig waved good-bye to her brother, Fred, as he left to go fishing with his best friend Jules Cornfield and Jules' son, Alan.
Jules called my brother at about 8:30 a.m. and said that the weather had changed and they we're going to go fishing in a half hour, so Fred was very happy,said Hebig, who lived with her brother in Oceanside. Fred and Jules went fishing at least two days each week, and sometimes more if the weather was good.
I stood by the window and waved good-bye as the three of them left,said Hebig.
It was the last time she would see them alive.
Fred Hebig, 70, and Jules Cornfield, 73 of Oceanside and his son Alan Cornfield, 38, an OHS alum now living in Dix Hills, were on their way back from an afternoon fishing trip when they encountered troubled waters on Oct. 1.
The 22-foot boat was passing through the Jones Inlet when it was hit by a breaking wave, tilting the boat. Hebig and Alan Cornfield were knocked off the boat sending them into the chilly waters where they drowned. Neither man was wearing a life jacket, said Les Dillon, a petty officer second class with the US Coast Guard at Jones Beach.
Approximately five minutes after receiving the senior Cornfield's Mayday
