Nate Reichenbacker

Nathaniel “Nate” Reichenbacker passed away Sunday, March 6, 2016 at Methodist Hospital in Des Moines after suffering a pulmonary embolism and related cardiac arrest. He was 18.

Nate was born April 11, 1997 to Amy Reichenbacker and Erik Bennett. He attended Des Moines Public Schools, finishing at Lincoln High, where he was a member of the Show Choir and Chamber Choir. He had several jobs, but his true vocation was cars, trucks, and bikes. He loved working on them, driving them too fast, covering them in mud and destroying their tires in “burn outs”, usually with another blood brother from “the squad.”
Nate was always doing something for someone else; his mother could almost never find him because he was out helping a friend, or a friend of a friend, or a friend of a friend of a friend. All he ever really wanted was to put a smile on the face of whoever was in front of him.

He is survived by his parents; his sister, Morgan; his half-brother Kaleb Schriber; his grandparents Grandpa Frank and Grandma Diana Reichenbacker; his Grandma Mickey and Grandpa John Riley; Grandpa Larry Bennett; Great-Grandma Watson; Aunt Brookie and Uncle Dave Pulliam; Aunt Val McCain; his cousins Taylor, Laney and Nick Pulliam, Sarah and Stephanie Kellogg and Jackie McCain; and of course his brothers-for-life Devin Harter and Thomas Gift. He also leaves behind an army of friends, so many of whom showed up at the hospital to support Nate and his family that security was forced to surrender and buy them all pizza for lunch.

Nate was preceded in death by his Great-Grandparents, Frank H. and Beulah Reichenbacker, and Leo Watson; his aunt, Alice Reichenbacker; and his Uncle Tippy and Aunt Renee.

Visitation will be from 4pm to 8pm Friday, March 11, at Hamilton’s Southtown Funeral Home, 5400 S.W. 9th St., Des Moines. A funeral service will be held Saturday, March 12 at 1p.m. at Lighthouse Community Church, 7705 Indianola Road, Des Moines.

Memorial donations may be made to the family for a charity to be determined. The family wishes to extend their thanks for the extraordinary efforts of the staff at Methodist to save Nate.

Nate was a gamer, a skater, a daredevil, prankster, and vaper, a lover of life; but above all he was a loyal friend, a loving son, grandson, brother, nephew and cousin. He was our Nate, and we will never get over losing him. #Live4Nate

Condolences may be expressed at:
www.HamiltonsFuneralHome.com

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