Wyatt Younger-Loesing, age 19, of rural Nelson, died Thursday, May 13, 2021, in Cass County, MO.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 20, at First Baptist Church in Marshall, with Rev. Tom Black officiating. Burial will follow at Heath Creek Cemetery in rural Nelson with the Boy Scout Honor Guard presenting colors. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 19, at First Baptist Church in Marshall.
In lieu of flowers, the family request that memorials be made to the Wyatt Loesing Boy Scout Fund. An online guestbook is available at www.campbell-lewis.com.
Born August 30, 2001, in Marshall, he was the son of Travis Loesing, who survives of Marshall, and Melissa Younger-Loesing who survives of rural Nelson. Wyatt lived in rural Nelson his entire life and was a 2020 graduate of Pettis County R-V. While in high school he was a member of the National Honor Society and FFA where he earned his Chapter Farmer degree, was top trap shooter for 2020 and received the chapter scholarship. He was 2nd in the state of Missouri in the Skills USA Contest in Carpentry Technology, earned his certificate of achievement his junior and senior years which allowed him to be awarded a career passport from the Missouri Division of Education and received a National Career Readiness Certificate Gold. Wyatt was a Cub Scout and earned his Arrow of Light in 2013, was active in the Boy Scouts of America, becoming an Eagle Scout on October 10, 2019, was inducted into the Order of the Arrow Society and always lived by The Scout Code. He was currently working as an irrigation technician for Schmitt Irrigation. He will be remembered for his love of the outdoors, any kind of animal that he ever came across, and was a self-proclaimed pyro technician. Wyatt was an avid reader and this helped his inquisitive and brilliant mind (also lots of useless knowledge), he loved plants and anything camo. There is no way to sum up who Wyatt was and what he meant to all who knew him, but his compassion, care, and genuinely kind spirit will always be remembered and live on in the hearts of so many. Wyatt was a member of Heath Creek Baptist Church in rural Nelson and his favorite verse was Philippians 4:4 “Rejoice in the Lord always: and again, I say rejoice.”
In addition to his parents, Travis and Melissa; he is survived by four brothers: Kenny Jones who is stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY, Colton Younger-Loesing, Daniel Younger-Loesing and Elijah Loesing, all of rural Nelson; grandparents: Muriel and Curtis Fisk of rural Nelson and Dale and Janice Younger of rural Nelson; great-grandparents: Azro and Lorraine Fisk of Wellington, and Margie Loesing of Boonville; several aunts and uncles including, Reba and Jonathon Raines of rural Nelson, Thomas Loesing of rural Nelson and Sarah and Larry Soverns of Langley, OK; as well as many cousins and lots of extended family.
Wyatt was preceded in death by his grandmother, Yvonne Younger, and great-grandfather, Clarence Loesing.