Kyle Harty Strang: Ricky Rogers Speaking at Kyle's Funeral

Note Regarding Order of Entries

The posts in the pages that follow are in this order:

May 2012: CAS Graduation—Kyle Harty Strang Spirit of CAS Award

May 2011: CAS Graduation—Kyle's loyal and loving CAS-mates move up.

March 2011: Two incredible articles that appeared in local newspapers

November: Lyrics of a beautiful song written for Kyle by Sarah Crews

July: Things shared on and around the 17th anniversary of Kyle's birth

June: Snippets of Facebook interchanges, end of school year pieces, and other things written to Kyle

May: CAS Memorial and misc. contributions received in May (in the order the comments were made)

April: Kyle's funeral and misc. contributions received in April (in the order the comments were made)

March 2010: Before Kyle's funeral and information about where to make donations in Kyle's memory

Because postings do not appear in the order they were posted, you will have to check the listing in the Blog Archive below to see whether there are posts you have not read, and then click on those posts.

If you made comments at one of the memorial events and/or if you have words about Kyle that you would like to post, send to: jbarber@berkeley.edu

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Ricky Rogers Speaking at Kyle's Funeral

This is going to be a lot shorter after Max.

I’ve had a lot of best friends over the years. Kyle, I think, was more than just a best friend. He was what I would do on weekends. He was a separate part of my life. Coming from a private school and a pretty regimented life, and I think, having everything planned out for me, Kyle was the alternative. Kyle was just living in the moment. I think his whole family is like that. I know Craig is like that, I know Sharleen is like that, I know all of you are like that just from the short time I had with you guys. And I hope…you know, he was always breaking the ice for me, and I hope he did that well enough so that now you can take the same spot that he did in my life. And so, you know, I just hope he did that well enough, and I think that he probably did.