lit a candle 1h agoTwenty five years old. Terrible thing, a liver cancer at that age. Thinking of Gary, Christina, Kamran and Juliet tonight.
Their story
Garrett Jackson Hemeyer was a young man from Windsor, Colorado, remembered by family and friends for quiet strength, quick wit, and a faith that deepened through the hardest years of his life. Born on November 8, 2000, in Houston, Texas, to Gary Lee Hemeyer and Christina Marie Medrano-Hemeyer, he grew…
Garrett Jackson Hemeyer was a young man from Windsor, Colorado, remembered by family and friends for quiet strength, quick wit, and a faith that deepened through the hardest years of his life. Born on November 8, 2000, in Houston, Texas, to Gary Lee Hemeyer and Christina Marie Medrano-Hemeyer, he grew up in Spring, Texas, before the family moved to Windsor in 2014. He died on September 9, 2026, at 11 a.m., aged 25, after living with Stage IV fibrolamellar carcinoma, a rare liver cancer diagnosed on August 8, 2025.
Garrett attended Providence Classical School in Spring through seventh grade, then Resurrection Christian School in Loveland, Colorado, graduating in May 2019. Athletics shaped his youth: school and club basketball and baseball, plus lacrosse. After high school he studied Construction Science at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, spent a year at Kansas State University in Manhattan, and returned to Texas Tech to pursue accounting. He worked for High Craft helping build homes, and put his hands to creative work building cornhole boards and assisting local artist and sculptor J. Christopher White. Friends said whatever he tried, he seemed good at, though humility often kept him from saying so.
Family was the center of his life. He was a devoted son, especially close to his mother, and a loving brother to Kamran and Juliet. He was Uncle Bubba to niece Tatum and nephew Knox, children of Kamran and her husband Tate Martin. He loved the family's cabin near Breckenridge, Maui beaches, trout fishing, boats, weightlifting, Xbox, music, new athletic shoes, and good food, especially sushi and pho. His Christian faith began early: he accepted Christ at five, was baptized at eight at Champion Forest Baptist Church in Houston, and grew into a faith that held him through mental and physical trials. In his final year, St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church in Loveland became a spiritual home for him and his family.
After his fibrolamellar diagnosis, caregivers and the FibroFighters Foundation, including Tom Stockwell and Dr. Paul Kent, supported the family alongside Banner MD Anderson Cancer clinicians. Even while suffering, Garrett joked, loved, and treated nurses and staff with gratitude. He told those around him he was not afraid to die because he knew where his hope rested. He is survived by his parents, sisters Kamran and Juliet, brother-in-law Tate, niece Tatum, nephew Knox, maternal grandparents, and many cousins and friends. He was preceded in death by paternal grandparents Roy Lee Hemeyer and Kathryn Jane Hemeyer. Services were set at St. Spyridon in Loveland on September 18-19, 2026, with a Houston-area celebration at Second Baptist Church-Cypress on September 25, and burial at Klein Memorial Park in Magnolia, Texas. Memorial gifts were directed to St. Spyridon or FibroFighters. His family said he fought the good fight, finished his race, and kept the faith.
Biography adapted from Family obituary published via Kibbey-Fishburn Funeral Home and The Denver Gazette (Legacy), September 2026; FibroFighters Foundation.
In their own words
“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28, a passage the family said held special meaning for Garrett
“Garrett fought the good fight. He finished his race. He kept the faith.”
Family obituary, Denver Gazette / Kibbey-Fishburn, September 2026
“Our son taught us to love deeper and to laugh longer.”
Parents' words in the family obituary
Same, my dad texted it to our whole family group chat