hello, my name is Brandi and I am making this for my younger sister Michelle and her Son Nolan in honor of her dad and his grandfather, Kevin.

In 2022 Kevin fell off the back of a flat bed splitting his head open, he took it as a sign to prepare his strained relationship with my sister, his only birth child. When my sister had her son in January of 2023 his world and life began again. He found his purpose.

In August of 2023 he sold everything he could and moved from South Dakota to Texas to help my little sister with her step children and his grandson, Nolan. He showed up every day helping in any way he could.

He left trucking behind when he moved to Texas because he didn’t want to miss out on Nolan’s life. Sadly the jobs here and there were not cutting it. On March 10th, one week after turning 56 he went back out on the road. He spent a week doing orientation and the entire time he missed my little sister and his grandson.

Yesterday he was helping another trucker and loading up his load to come home to my sister and nephew when he passed. The devastation in his passing is hard to explain.

His last post, not 24 hours before he died was how much he missed his daughter and grandson. He talked to my mom (and my sister’s mom) the same day on how much he feared Nolan wasn’t going to remember him while he was gone this short while. Now we will never let him not know his grandfather.

Because Kevin just went back on the road with this company none of his insurance policies including life insurance is valid. What he had is little and now we will scrape together everything possible to let him rest.

Whatever you can donate will go towards his cremation, and the transportation it will take my sister to get to Mississippi (where he passed) from Texas. If there is more left over it will help with costs to take him to South Dakota this summer and for my sister to bring my nephew to spread his ashes and have a small service. Anything more will go towards Nolan and his future, as Kevin would have wanted.

like all of us, Kevin had is issues. But like so few his heart was so full of love and grace. He was a friend to every child, a father to more than my sister. When my own dad died when I was 7 he became my dad as well. He loved my older and sister and I the way any father would.

his love for my nephew is the love I hope I show to my own family every day. The love and care he had for my little sister even more.

thank you for your prayers, support and always, kindness.