St. Clair County Obits

WAYLON DALE KIRTLEY

Memoriam
In Celebration of the Life of
Cadet 1st Lt.
Waylon Dale Dozier Kirtley
1990 - 2007

Date of Birth: August 19, 1990
Date of Death: September 2, 2007
Time and Date of Services: 2:00 P.M., Sunday, September 9, 2007
Benton Church, Mound City, Missouri
Officiating: Pastor Rick Pearson
Music: "It Is Well With My Soul". Soloist - Lisa Kelly
Pallbearers: C/2nd Lt. Kenna Eggenberger, C/Lt. Col. David Fuller, C/2nd Lt. Lucas Eggenberger, C/1st Lt. Zac Reznak, C/Sr. Amn. Abe Kennedy. Honor guard are members of Civil Air Patrol.
Interment: Benton Cemetery, Mound City, Missouri

Waylon Dale Dozier Kirtley was born in Clinton, Missouri on August 19, 1990. Waylon attended several schools, but always lived in Northwest Missouri. He had just started his junior year and was being home schooled.
Waylon joined the Cadet Civil Air Patrol at age 12, and was currently a Cadet 1st Lieutenant. He was working on achieving his private pilot's lisence.
Waylon passed away as a result of an airplane accident on Sunday, September 2, 2007 at the age of 17.
He was preceded in death by his paternal grandmother, Loretta Kirtley, and one cousin, Joshua Nichols.
Survivors include his parents, Chuck and Helen (Dozier) Kirtley, Union Star; girlfriend, Kenna Eggenberger, Harrisonville, Missouri; brother, Wesley Kirtley and his girlfriend Macae, Clinton, Missouri; maternal grandparents, Bill and Eileen Dozier, Lowry City, Missouri; paternal grandparents, Charles and Mary Kirtley, Millerton, Iowa; aunts and uncles, Terry and Rhonda Dozier, Lowry City, Missouri, Tim and Gail Kirtley, Newton, Kansas, Dan and Martha Nichols, Cordova, Alaska, and Mary and Carlos Gonzalez, Galeana, Mexico; and one niece, Madison Kirtley, Clinton, Missouri.
Waylon enjoyed hunting, fishing, horseback riding, and spending time with friends and family. He was baptized at an early age in the Platte River at Elrod Mills, and had been attending the First Baptist Church youth group in Savannah. Waylon was a member of the Trailwinds Flying Club and Civil Air Patrol.
Waylon had worked on the Benton Church restoration project, and was devoted to the cemetery since several generations of his family are buried there.
Memorials may be directed to the Friends of the Benton Church. Care entrusted to Chamberlain Funeral Home, Oregon, Missouri.

High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed,
and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of -
wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctit of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
- Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee, No. 412 squadron, RFAF. Killed 11 December 1941

Waylon Dale Kirtley

Submitted by the Kirtley family