It is with the utmost regret and sadness that I must inform the group of the untimely death of Jeremy VanBemmelen...good friend and former employee of my company. Some of you may know him from the three years he worked with me here or from talking with him at the Gettysburg DCS in 2009.
I think his automotive career began at fifteen years of age when an acquantance gave him his first ride in a Jaguar XKE. He never looked back... embarking on a journey that for the next half of his (all too brief) life would find him achieving many things in the automotive world that would elude people twice his age. He was the ultimate car guy emmersing himself in buying ,selling, restoring, repairing almost any type of collector, sports car, and motorcycle that you could name and many that you couldn't. He achieved a body of knowledge and experience far beyond anyone else I've ever seen at a similiar age. His last employer was an exotic car dealership where he diagnosed and repaired all of the earlier exotic's that his cohorts could not fix with their laptops and tablets.
Beyond that he was an incredible person who combined the vitality of a boy with the wisdom of an "old soul". True to form he was delivering a car to a friend only 15 minutes from his house when tragedy struck. As he began unloading the vehicle it became untethered...killing him almost instantly. At thirty years of age Jeremy leaves behind April his beautiful wife and a young daughter with another baby due in about two weeks. I'm sure no one regrets this more than him.
April was holding up remarkably well when I saw her yesterday at a memorial service at her parents house where I saw strong men shed tears. My heart goes out to her, both families and his many, many friends. I count myself lucky to have been one of them.
The funeral service is today. God bless you Jeremy. You will never be forgotten.
Rob Grady
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Originally Posted by skill
