Jeremy Kay Bills

Jeremy Kay Bills

Jeremy is the sixth of seven children born to his parents Kerry and Sherry, and was their third child to pass away as a result of a traumatic accident. Jeremy was born August 28, 1979, in Rexburg, Idaho. At a very young age, Jeremy worked setting up manufactured homes in the family business. Jeremy was a hard worker and one could write a book on all of his great qualities. He graduated from Rigby High School in 1998. While in high school, he was a member of the choir and the ballroom dance team. He also loved to ride motorcycles, snow and water ski, and go four digging in his truck. After graduating, Jeremy went on an LDS mission to the Cincinnati Ohio Mission. Jeremy was an excellent missionary and he truly loved those he served. He served in many leadership positions and was loved and respected by all of his fellow missionaries. Upon his return home, Jeremy attended Ricks College and worked for his father again transporting, selling, and setting up manufactured homes. While attending college, Jeremy met his fiancé, Guinn, and they were planning on getting married when she finished school. Early in the morning on June 1, 2002, Jeremy was watching movies with his friends. They decided that they wanted to watch an R-rated movie. Jeremy chose to leave rather than watch the inappropriate movie that went against the values and standards he believed and lived. Jeremy was less than one mile from home when he came upon a horse in the middle of the road. He swerved and missed the horse, but then he had to swerve again to miss a telephone pole and pulled back up onto the road. As the car came back onto the road, a tire blew and the rim dug into the pavement causing the car to flip end over end. The automatic shoulder belt in Jeremy’s car was broken and he wasn’t wearing the lap belt, so when the car flipped he was thrown out the driver’s side window. Police reports show that he was only traveling 35-37 miles an hour. Jeremy was life-flighted to the Eastern Regional Medical Center where the fight to save his life lasted for three days. Jeremy endured a heart by-pass surgery and a stroke. A blood clot formed and settled in his brain stem making a second surgery necessary. His body could endure no more and Jeremy died in surgery on June 3, 2002. The loss of Jeremy has been nearly unbearable to his family and those who loved him. He had a positive influence on all that knew him. It is in his honor and memory, as well as for his brother Jeffrey and his sister Emilee, (who also died as a result of traumatic accidents), that the Bills Family Foundation was created with the purpose of serving victims and families of victims of traumatic accidents.