TYLER BLAINE HIGHFILL

© Published in Enid, OK. News

Tues., Oct. 31, 2006

Submitted by: Sylva Rhodes

TYLER BLAINE HIGHFILL

The funeral for Tyler Blaine Highfill, 19, of Cherokee, will be 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at Cherokee High School Auditorium. Burial will be in Cherokee Municipal Cemetery. Arrangements are by Lanman Funeral Home Inc., Cherokee. Visitation will be 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the funeral home. The casket will be open following the service.

He was born Sept. 21, 1987, in Okeene to Eugene and Patricia Pritchett Highfill and died Sunday, Oct. 29, 2006, in Alva.

He graduated from Cherokee High School in 2006. He enlisted in the Army National Guard in 2005 while still in high school. He was active in track, baseball, basketball, football and was a member of the Foreign Language Club. He was attending Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva where he ran cross-country and was a member of the long distance running team. He attended First Christian Church in Cherokee.

Surviving are his parents, Eugene “Geno” and Tricia Highfill of Cherokee; one brother, Toby Jack; two sisters, Jessica and Kayla; his grandparents, Ivan and Betty Dunsworth, Betty Stone, James and Myrna Pritchett and Karen Highfill; and great-grandparents, Doris Stone and Robert Pritchett.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to the Tyler Highfill Scholarship Fund.

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