
Celebrating the Life of
March 10, 1982 — July 30, 2023

Saturday, September 2, 2023, 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Pacific Time
1209 N. Minor Rd, Kelso Wa 98626 Reign Church
We will be honoring Mike with a memorial service at his son's church, hosted by his son, his siblings and mother. Please feel free to bring a side if you wish and no pressure to do so. Please also sign this guest book and share stories of Michael so that I can make a book for his kids to enjoy over time. Wear what is comfortable, share this link with folks you know would like to be there.

Sunday, August 13, 2023, 1:00 pm - 9:00 pm Pacific Time
North Bonneville Park, WA
RSVP at the Facebook Link Please. https://www.facebook.com/events/672188474957247?ref=newsfeed Please share with anyone who knew Mike and would like to be here. Everyone is invited. Please bring Michael's favorite dish of yours or your best side dish or a food gift card for the girls (his daughters). Please do not wear black. We will be honoring and celebrating his life from 1pm until dusk. This service is being hosted by his daughter's and their mother.
Please share a photo or video, or post a heartfelt condolence to the family.



Memorial page 2

Front page memorial flyer

To my loving brother who was amazing person big heart funny always made me smile he was truly my best friend I will love and miss you and my heart is with you always rest in peace my brother till I see you again in heaven your little sister shy ❤️
I will always remember your kindness , your smile and your laugh . You and your family will always have a special spot in my heart . You will be greatly missed and thought of often .
You will live on in our hearts everyday until we meet again. Your light SHINES SO BRIGHT within us. Thank you for loving us the way you did. Our time was precious and is treasured. Our babies will live on knowing their dad was an incredible man. Full of love and light. You will be missed more then words can ever express. I love you Michael John JR. Forever and Always. Until we meet again. In my heart is where you will stay. You are the Brightest STAR in the Galaxy. Shine Bright.
Memorial Slide show
Here is a recording of the service for those who missed it or would like to see it again. ASHLEY HILTON is the singer. Kevin Kennedy the Pastor, DJ read the Poem and Jennifer Boyd the reading, Asia Wisecarver the Eulogy. First song sang was Oceans, second was Fly Away. Remy and Asia Wisecarver made the slideshow.
I love you, always have, always will. There was and never will be a moment where I am not proud to call you my brother. I only wish you were able to see you as I did. Rest in peace baby brother, until we meet again.

Eulogy from a Physicist – Aaron Freeman flowers for inspiring funeral readings“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got. And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever. And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all your energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell him that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives. And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly. Amen.”
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