Aaron Samuel Kirkland

Aaron Samuel Kirkland passed away and left us all too soon on Monday night October 4th, 2021 on his way home from a Young Life event. Aaron was 16 years old . Aaron was born on October 7th, 2004 to David Samuel Kirkland and Holly DeArmas Kirkland. Aaron has proceeded his immediate family from the temporal world and is survived by both his Grandparents Gil and Annette DeArmas along with Bob and Joy Kirkland who will miss him and those opportunities to watch him mature into a young man. His Aunts and Uncles remain behind and include Richard and Donna Kirkland, Susan and David Martucci, Caroline and Bill Mooney along with his cousins Abigail Kirkland, Kristen Kasych, Clair Lutrick, Kathryn, Zack & Mary Grace Cole, Jennifer Martucci and Katherine Martucci. Memorial Services will be held at First Baptist Church of Buford GA., 4550 Hamilton Mill Rd., 30518 on Tuesday October 12th at 6 PM. The family will receive visitors at 4:30 prior to the service. Services may be seen live at fbcbuford.org Aaron has grown up in Buford Georgia and attended Buford schools throughout his life from Preschool up through High School and touched many friends and teachers along the way. Aaron touched so many lives; he was a kind and gentle soul. The family is touched by the untold stories surfacing now from the community and requests that you spend a few minutes before we celebrate his life next week and write your favorite or fondest memory with him and bring it with you on Tuesday to leave with us. We hope you will share these private moments with David and Holly to read and treasure on a day in the future. We know these moments will live in your memories for a lifetime and you can rejoice knowing these moments will provide comfort for years to come. He enjoyed many outdoor activities and was an avid fisherman. He also liked to hunt when he could. He spent time with his parents and friends camping all over the Southeast. Truthfully he would prefer to be in a hotel room in a comfortable bed instead of tightly packed, like a sardine, in the RV. Aaron excelled at any sport he attempted and has enjoyed Football and Lacrosse. He came into full stride as a championship caliber wrestler for the Buford Wolves and was a natural with high expectations to follow this path into his college career. The Family asks that in lieu of Flower that you make a contribution to Honor Aaron to the Buford Chapter of Young Life. We know they shaped his life. We encourage you to listen softly and follow him on a journey to everlasting life with this group of influencers in your community. We are touched by the outpouring from so many who seek to contribute to his memory. It has shown us what we knew as parents, that he was surrounded by a supportive community of friends and family. We seek to encourage and develop these attributes as part of our home. If you desire, you may continue to make contributions to his memorial fund. We know he touched many among you, and we have decided to use this fund, in his honor, to promote and develop these wonderful characteristics we all saw and often blindly experienced. We intend to establish a foundation that encourages and rewards those who display the kindness and loving nature shyly hidden but seen and experienced by so many. Our hope is to encourage others and trust you will permit us to connect with those around us who remind us of what we saw every day.

Aaron Samuel Kirkland

October 7, 2004 - October 4, 2021