In loving memory
Rafe Bram James Deal
September 23, 2003 – July 27, 2022
Lived 18 years
WildWood Cemetery · Chesaning, Michigan
Wrong step, wrong choice, wrong mistake, shouldn’t have happened, but it did.
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2003
Born September 23
2004
Rafe was 1 when Facebook was launched
2005
Rafe was 2 when the first video was posted to YouTube
2014
Rafe was 11 when the Ice Bucket Challenge went viral
2017
Rafe was 14 when "Fortnite" became a video game phenomenon
2020
Rafe was 17 when SpaceX launched astronauts into orbit for the first time
2022
Graduated Chesaning Union High School
2022
Passed away July 27, age 18
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