KODI KADEEM BECKLES (KKB)

TIME-LINE OF THE PASSING OF OUR LOVING SON KODI KADEEM BECKLES.

Pray for our Family FaceBook Family our 20-year-old son, a Junior at Plattsburg State University has been miss­ing since Friday night into Saturday morn­ing. He was last seen at a par­ty with friends Friday night, just off Campus. Keep us in your prayers, please.

Monday, April 7^th.
Today marks 3 days since my son Kodi Kadeem Beckles, a 20-year-old Junior of Plattsburg State University dis­ap­peared with­out a trace. We are ask­ing any­one who knows the where­abouts of my Son please call 518−563−3411, or 845−863−3870.
Kodi is 5 feet 10 inch­es tall, he weighs about 180 pounds, with low-cut hair, and brown eyes. We are appeal­ing to any­one with infor­ma­tion to please call any of these numbers.

April 7^th.

“UPDATE” April 7^th.

MY SON IS DEAD.

This morn­ing Monday, April 7^th after an exhaus­tive search by Campus,
City and State Police, our son Kodi have been found.
Unfortunately, the news we were hop­ing to get was not what we got. Our beloved and won­der­ful son was found dead. I would like to just acknowl­edge the heart-felt kind­ness all of you have extend­ed to our fam­i­ly at this time. Let me stress that at this time there is no indi­ca­tion of foul play. We are not allowed to say much, right now, but we believe there was no foul play involved. We will update you fur­ther as more becomes avail­able. Thanks please keep us in your prayers.

https://​vimeo​.com/​9​1​3​6​0​709.
April 9^th.

Funeral ser­vices in cel­e­bra­tion of the life of our beloved Son’s home going will be held at the Beulah Baptist Church 92 Catherine Street Poughkeepsie New York at 11 am Thursday, April 17^th. There will be a wake held for Kodi at the same venue on Wednesday, April 16^th between the hours of 5 and 8 pm. The Services will be broad­cast on the web live @ www​.Beulahweb​.org. — with Kodi Kadeem Beckles.

My son was in such a hur­ry to get going, fin­ish high school, start col­lege, he was already dis­cussing grad­u­ate school, he just got induct­ed into the fra­ter­ni­ty he want­ed to be a part of. He got bap­tized, he got me to stop smok­ing years ago, he want­ed every­thing that was good for me. He was so kind and gen­tle. The world is much less fun a lot less kind with his pass­ing. I know my sug­ar will be a lot less sweet.
My ice less cold, my warm less invit­ing, my sleep less rest­ful. You came into my life and I strug­gled to pro­tect and care for you, all the time I nev­er real­ized you were car­ing for me. I will nev­er be the same. Yet you would be first to ask “Dad you ate, you okay”? I will always love you, I will nev­er stop miss­ing you.

April 11^th

Outside the Memorial Hall gym­na­si­um, a mass of peo­ple waits patient­ly to enter the dou­ble doors and take their seats in the bleach­ers. When walk­ing through the doors, the bleach­ers are full, and ush­ers are direct­ing peo­ple to sit in the mid­dle of the bas­ket­ball court. More than 1,000 peo­ple are present, most­ly in black, somber­ly await­ing the start of the cer­e­mo­ny. Emotions are high as peo­ple con­tin­ue to fun­nel through the doors.http://www.cardinalpointsonline.com/news/a‑life-celebrated-over‑1 – 000-paid-respects‑1.2864401#.U1FTaPldWT0

When Kodi Beckles was born, God made a deposit. When Kodi passed God made a with­draw­al. We

did­n’t sec­ond guess God on the deposit, so we will not sec­ond guess Him on the with­draw­al. God made the deposit and God made the with­draw­al, and the dif­fer­ence between the deposit and the with­draw­al is the INTREST. Join us Thursday, April 17^th, 11:00 AM at Beulah Baptist Church, 92 Catherine Street, Poughkeepsie, NY as we cel­e­brate the INTEREST. Pastor, Beulah Baptist Church. Poughkeepsie, NY. www​.beu​lah​web​.org. Meet Pastor “B”. Rev. Jesse Voyd Bottoms, Jr.

April 10^th.
Rest in peace my pre­cious baby, even as you emerged from child­hood into man­hood, you nev­er stopped me from baby­ing you. God gave you to me for a rea­son, I now know he only gave you to me for a sea­son. You were a bril­liant light that shone through to my soul. You were every­thing to me. God, how I love you .…..tears Kodes, how could you leave me like this». You always thought I could do any­thing, I don’t know about this Kodes. I don’t know about this.

Proud of the fac­ul­ty and stu­dent body of Plattsburg State University for lov­ing my son.

Friends and fam­i­ly gath­er around can­dles gath­er to pay trib­ute to the like of Kodi Kadeem Beckles. A life well-lived. Gone too soon, you touched so many with your infec­tious smile and kind heart. No one will miss you more than your par­ents. No words can tell how much your dad grieves for you. I love you more than life itself my baby boy. You were a bril­liant light that went out too soon I can’t wait to see you again.

Dad.

Proud of the fac­ul­ty and stu­dent body of Plattsburg State University for lov­ing my son.

my baby 

View Funeral Service here. Go to ser­mon Archives, then click on Kodi’s celebration.

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Many peo­ple live and die with­out ever get­ting a chance to see how appre­ci­at­ed they are. We would glad­ly give back every­thing we have been blessed with thus far, if we could have our Kodi back. It feels like a Pyrrhic vic­to­ry. Even so, I would like to acknowl­edge the legions of friends, rel­a­tives, and well-wish­ers who gave sup­port to our fam­i­ly. Our load is heavy, our hearts are bro­ken, words can­not express the way we feel. Notwithstanding, the lev­el of good­will all of you showed to our fam­i­ly was over­whelm­ing. Surely we could nev­er earn that many bless­ings. God favors us even when we could nev­er earn the mas­sive out­pour­ing of love we received. Thank you to all of you our friends. Every word, every song, every card, every prayer, every ges­ture is appre­ci­at­ed. We thank you, now we must begin this jour­ney, a jour­ney we did not crave or ask for. We have one road-map and that is the promise of God through Jesus Christ. That some­day because we accept­ed the sac­ri­fice of his son’s shed blood we will see our son again. Thank you for lov­ing and tak­ing care of us. (MB.