I met Brandt through Garrett a couple years ago out boating. I have written about him in my blog before. He loved to go balls to the wall on the tube. He was fun to have around boating. I have been trying to find out when he is coming back to the area to get him out boating again. I was searching through the web trying to find him, and I ran across this:<\/p>\n
Brandt Eugene Gehrke<\/strong><\/p>\n LEWISTON, Idaho — A celebration of the life of Kirkland, Wash., resident Brandt Eugene Gehrke, 26, will begin at 2 p.m. today, Nov. 5, in Lewiston Community Center. Private family burial will be in Asotin, Wash., Cemetery.<\/p>\n His body was found by search and rescue teams on Oct. 24, 2005, at Merritt Lake Trailhead, near Leavenworth, Wash.<\/p>\n Born Feb. 28, 1979, in Lewiston, he was the second oldest of four children of Penny O. (Wilson) and David A. Gehrke. During his high-school years in Nevada, he excelled in all sports and was state champion in wrestling. He graduated from Asotin High School in 1997, with high honors and a grade-point average over 4.0.<\/p>\n He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1997 and served in the 82nd Airborne, 2\/505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. From May through August 1999, he was a Quick Reaction Corps peacekeeper in Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo. He served his last six months in Egypt and was honorably discharged in February 2001 at the rank of sergeant.<\/p>\n He lived in Pullman, Wash., from 2001 to 2005; and worked full-time as a bartender at Valhalla’s Restaurant and Lounge. On the Washington State University president’s honor roll all four years, he earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in business.<\/p>\n He met his fiancee, Jacquelyn Potwin, in January 2004 while they were students at WSU; and, in July 2005, moved to Kirkland to be with her.<\/p>\n An avid extreme sportsman, he enjoyed rock-climbing, parachuting, surfing, on-line gaming, modeling, snowboarding, and spending time with his sisters.<\/p>\n Survivors include his mother and her fiance of Asotin; three sisters, Lisa D. Millikin, her husband, and two nephews of Glendo, Kelly E. Gehrke and her fiance of Lewiston and Brianna I. Gehrke and her fiance of Clarkston, Wash.; maternal grandparents, Orine A. and Dr. R.D. Wilson of Clarkston; his fiancee; and several uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n He was preceded in death by his father and paternal grandparents, Joan M. and Eugene O. Gehrke.<\/p>\n Memorials may be made to the Scholarship Fund for Children of Special Officers Killed in Action; search and rescue organizations; or the National Center for Missing Persons.<\/p>\n Ward’s Funeral Chapel of Leavenworth is in charge of arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I met Brandt through Garrett a couple years ago out boating. I have written about him in my blog before. He loved to go balls to the wall on the tube. He was fun to have around boating. I have been trying to find out when he is coming back to the area to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}