Jason Erick Offerman

I grew up next-door to Angie and Jason and we spent every summer together for several years. When we weren’t creating obstacle courses at Sinnissippi Park, Jason would try to teach us how to skateboard (we were never as good as him) and we’d put on talent shows in my basement (he’d play the drummer from Def Leppard and tuck his arm into his shirt while we rocked out to “Pour Some Sugar on Me”). He was one of my first real friends. He is fondly remembered and will be forever missed. My...

Jason was a gorgeous, sweet, sensitive boys with an engaging personality and a quick wit. As the tribute says, we lose far too many, far too soon to mental illness which is, like any illness, deserving of research and of mainstream attention....I will always remember my only nephew as the sweetheart that he was and, as the Irish say, we will forever wake him.