Dewaun Jay Gilkey

DEWAUN JAY GILKEY, 19, PASSED AWAY ON FEBRUARY 17, 2020.
DEWAUN WAS BORN IN CHICAGO ON FEBRUARY 8, 2001. DEWAUN ATTENDED CRUSADERS CHURCH WITH HIS MOTHERLY AUNT DIANE AND FATHERLY UNCLE GERALD. THEY HELPED LEAD HIM TO CHRIST AT AGE 16.  HE PLAYED BASKETBALL AND LOVED READING COMIC BOOKS, DRAWING, DANCING AND MUSIC (PARTICULARLY PLAYING THE DRUMS). HE ALSO LOVED PLAYING VIDEO GAMES AND ANY WATER-RELATED ACTIVITIES SUCH AS BEING ON THE LAKE AND AT THE WATER PARK FLOATING IN THE "LAZY RIVER".  DEWAUN WAS A SWEET, LOVING AND CARING INDIVIDUAL WHO ALWAYS JOKED AROUND WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS. HE ALSO LOVED TO DEBATE ABOUT POLITICS. 
FOR ELEMENTARY EDUCATION, HE GRADUATED FROM FREEDOM HOME ACADEMY INTL. AND HE ATTENDED HIGH SCHOOL AT KENWOOD ACADEMY (GRADUATING CLASS OF 2020). HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS BIOLOGICAL FATHER JUAN GILKEY, CHILDHOOD FATHER FIGURE WENDELL NORWOOD,  GRANDFATHER NATE WATSON, GREAT GRANDFATHER THOMAS HAYES AND GODFATHER BRIAN EDWARDS, BIOLOGICAL MOTHER ARITHA SWAPSY (MEME), GRANDMOTHER KIM SWAPSY, GREAT GRANDMOTHER JESSIE HAYES, GODMOTHER PAMELA FRANKS, MOTHERLY AUNT TANIA EDWARDS (LADY BUG) AND SEVERAL LOVING AUNTS, UNCLES, COUSINS AND A HOST OF FRIENDS. DEWAUN WILL BE GREATLY MISSED.
 

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