On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 our son
Travis Faulkner Eberle passed from this world. Travis was born on October 18, 1990 in Seattle, Washington and was raised on Vashon Island.
Travis was a vibrant, unique one of a kind individual. He was a free spirit, large of heart, with a deep and lovely soul. Travis’ love and compassion for his family and friends knew no limits. Travis was always available with a helping hand, a supportive shoulder and a listening set of ears. He never failed to put the needs of his family and friends before his own. Travis was an amazingly beautiful individual, not only outwardly but inwardly as well. He loved the beauty of this life and those who truly knew Travis knew that he took every opportunity to savor this life to its outer most limits, (often to his own detriment), but whatever consequence awaited him it never stopped Travis from continuing to live and experience life to its fullest up to its very end.
“Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something–he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.”
– Lois Lowry, The Giver
Travis is survived by his mother Nancy Dierks (Randy Sonnier), his brother Ian Mattingly, his grandfather Gordon Dierks, his father Daniel Eberle (Laura), his grandfather Robert Eberle (Claire), his uncle Aaron Dierks (Sheryl) Gus and Hailee Dierks, Aunt Susan Stahfeldt (Eric), Marta and Karl Stahfeldt, Aunt Jill Musgrove (Greg), Emily, Jennifer, and Nathan Musgrove, and many extended family members and so many wonderful friends.
A memorial fund in Travis’s name is being set up at US Bank for youth with addiction issues.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, October 12, 2013, 2pm at The Bethel Church, 14736 Bethel Lane SW, Vashon. A reception will follow at the old VFW Hall.
Please visit our online guest book at www.islandfuneral.com.
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