News Item: Travis Michaelis Death (2003) Served '97-99
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Student killed in act of service
Travis Michaelis, a BYU-Idaho sophomore, died May 26, [2003] trying to rescue a dog from an abandoned mine in the Salmon-Challis National Forest.
The family believes carbon monoxide gas trapped in the shaft poisoned him as he descended into the mine.
Grief filled the air as the pallbearers brought in the casket of 25-year-old Michaelis into the Burton Ward chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Friday.
“The last weeks of Travis’ life were filled with the things he loved. He quit his job, spent time with his family, with his mother, getting projects started, doing things he had meant to do for a long time.” Phillip Hanamaikai, a junior from Rexburg and friend of Michaelis, said at the funeral service.
The BYU-I student, majoring in construction management, was born and raised in the Rexburg area.
He served a mission for the Church to Winnipeg, Canada, from March 1997 to March 1999.
“He had a great love of the outdoors and a greater love and deep testimony of the gospel,” Jeffrey Michaelis, a senior from Rexburg and Travis’ younger brother said.
He was an avid outdoorsman.
He loved ice, wall and rock climbing and repelling.
He loved biking.
He loved to play the guitar and to write music.
“The greatest thing that impressed me about Travis over the last few years was his capacity to love,” Hanamaikai said.
A March 16, 2003 excerpt from Michaelis’ journal was read at the funeral.
“To My Savior with Love. Through the ails of time come the devotions of a friend. A kind word to sway the wrath of being. A gentle touch to melt the coldest of stone. To me Thou hast been good. To Thee I will be true.”
“He had many terrific friends and a lot of people loved him,” Cathryn Michaelis, Travis’ mother said. “He was a very special person. We love him and we are going to miss him.”
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