Summer Rose Kavara, age 21, a resident of Webb Road in Summertown, passed away on Monday, November 26, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
A memorial service for Summer will be conducted Wednesday at 5:00 P.M. at the First Presbyterian Church in Mt. Pleasant with Rev. Emily Barker officiating.
The family will visit with friends on Wednesday from 4:00 P.M. until time of the service at the church.
Williams Funeral Home of Mt. Pleasant is in charge of arrangements.
The Lewis County native was the daughter of Randy and Cathy Kavara of Summertown
Summer Rose was the light of her parents? lives and lived a glorious 21 years. Her life was filled with love, laughter and a smile that lit up every room she entered. She was loved and nurtured beyond compare and gave those gifts back ten fold to all she befriended.
Summer attended the Summertown schools, having played bells in the band for six years and on the tennis team for five years. She reached the #1 position on the tennis team while in the 10th grade. Summer was a junior at Martin Methodist College attending on a tennis scholarship. Her tennis skills were nearly as remarkable as her musical talent. She played the organ for a time at her church, the First Presbyterian Church of Mt. Pleasant, and delighted many with her wonderful renditions of popular, ragtime and blues pieces. Music, sweetness and light were central to her life in the same way that she was central in the lives of those who knew her.
Summer had worked as a caregiver, at H ibbett Sporting Goods, McDonald?s in Columbia and had her own housekeeping and landscaping service.
Upon her passing, it had been Summer?s desire to become an organ donor, that others may have the chance to live longer lives.
Survivors in addition to her parents include three brothers: John and Chris Kavara of Summertown and Cliff Kavara of Asheville, NC; her grandmother: Hope Stringfellow of Lake Isabelle, CA; several aunts, uncles and cousins including Uncle Mike Stringfellow of Nashville and Tim Ford of Simi Valley, CA.
Memorials may be sent to the First Presbyterian Church of Mt. Pleasant, P. O. Box 128, Mt. Pleasant, TN, 38474, to be distributed to Summer?s favorite charities.