I met Chris Rummel in the Yahoo Boot Camp class. I didn’t really know him very well but I noticed him because he was very energetic and enthusiastic about working out! In most days, I needed that to get motivated!

It was to my surprise when our bootcamp instructor told us about Chris’ accident. Actually, one of the students told me as we were jogging and warming up for the class. One of Chris’ co-worker is also in the class, so we got regular updates on his condition. The hard part is that no one really knew what happened because there were no witnesses to the accident (he was riding his motorcycle going home from Yahoo and the accident happened near Mathilda and Innovation).
The group decided to send him a card to cheer him up. Unfortunately, we sent the card too late. He was already gone.

This really affected me in some ways. First of all, he was very young and I think just starting out to live his life!
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I want to thank all of you for signing the card today.Thomasz and I went to the hospital today a little late, about 4:00pm to drop off the card. We met with Kelley, Chris’s girlfriend and the immediate family. This was taken from the website and I don’t have anything to add to it.

Derrald

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To the dear friends, family and loved ones of Chris Rummel,

Many of you I know well and some of you I have never met. I come to you now to tell you all the worst news I have ever had to endure in my life.
Today, June 21st at 3pm Chris passed away.

Chris was the strongest and most persistent man I have ever met and he fought to get better with all of his boundless energy but the damage to his body was too much.

I wish to thank you all so much for sharing your love with Chris the past week. Many days we sat with him recounting old stories, reading the messages you sent and telling him how much he was loved. Chris was never alone throughout his hospitalization and he passed with his family by his side.

It is very difficult for me to write this letter and impossible for me to put into words my grief over the loss of his love and life. Instead, I would like to leave you with a quote his mother shared with me about how she feels he lived his life.

“Be the change you wish to see in the world”

In this quote I see the man that Chris was, the people he influenced and the life he lived. Chris was never short on opinions and he had an activity to fill every minute of life. I am so lucky to have shared the past four years of his life with him and I am forever changed by the love he shared with me. I promised Chris that I would never give up and with that I will continue his message and hope to live even half the life he lived.

I will keep this care page up for a while and continue to update it with new info as we set a date for a ceremony. I would also encourage everybody to continue to share memories, messages or thoughts about the life of Chris Rummel. If anybody would also like to add pictures of Chris to the page please e-mail them to me at kmevent@yahoo.com.

With all my love and deepest sympathies,

Kelley Edwards