Hundreds gather to remember Dylan Rounds during memorial service

UCON — As nan sun beamed down complete a section successful Ucon Saturday afternoon, Dylan Rounds was remembered arsenic an “old soul” who loved to farm, show stories and walk clip outdoors.

Hundreds gathered to retrieve nan 19-year-old whose assemblage was recovered successful April buried successful a distant portion of bluish Utah adjacent nan Nevada authorities line. The young man from Rigby moved to nan area to workplace and Dylan’s first tractor was fittingly connected show during nan memorial service. So was his first pickup truck, an aged greenish Ford.

“When he was 14 years old, he sewage nan pickup from a neighbor’s property sale. He was ecstatic that he could bargain an aged pickup. He had nan money successful his slope relationship and we went and paid rate for it. He was truthful proud of that pickup,” Justin Rounds said, speaking from a podium placed connected nan backmost of a semitrailer bed.

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Rounds shared that erstwhile he and Candice Cooley, Dylan’s mother, learned she was pregnant, they were told their firstborn would beryllium a girl. When Dylan was born, nan babe “shocked nan heck” retired of nan family because he was a boy.

“In emblematic Dylan fashion, he came into nan world his ain way,” David Hutchinson, Dylan’s great-uncle, said. “You astir apt bought each this pinkish worldly and had pinkish everyplace but Justin and Candice, small did you cognize that you astir apt conscionable needed a brace of Levi’s and workboots.”

Dylan Rounds’ first tractor was connected show during his memorial service. | Nate Eaton, EastIdahoNews.com

As a child, Dylan and his 2 siblings, Colton and Brooklyn, grew nutrient connected their workplace and sold it connected nan broadside of nan road. The young boy raised cattle, bailed hay, and “could outwork astir adults.” One day, aft building a fence, Dylan was excited to overgarment it moreover though it was 100 degrees outside. He convinced his dada to fto him overgarment nan obstruction red.

“I was ever proud of nan measurement he worked. He ever had nosy doing work,” Rounds said. “When I beryllium successful nan shop and deliberation astir Dylan now, I person different times erstwhile I miss him astatine different points successful his life for illustration really I miss him arsenic a 4-year-old alternatively than conscionable an 18 aliases 19-year-old.”

Dylan, a “dreamer, builder and visionary,” branched retired to workplace connected his ain successful 2022 successful Lucin, Utah. He vanished complete Memorial Day play and his family spent astir 2 years searching for Dylan. Earlier this year, James Brenner, a 60-year-old man pinch a convulsive criminal history, admitted to sidesplitting Dylan and led rule enforcement to his body. Brenner pleaded guilty to second-degree execution and is serving a situation sentence successful Utah.