Joshua Stewart Irons

TORRINGTON, Wyoming --- Funeral services for Josh Irons, 28, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at the Rendevous Center in the Goshen County Fair Grounds in Torrington. Cremation will follow services. Josh died on February 13, 2018 in Michigan. Arrangements are under the direction of the Colyer Funeral Home and friends may send their condolences to the family at www.colyerfuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the GoFundMe page in Josh’s honor: https://www.gofundme.com/let039s-pull-together-for-the-irons Joshua Stewart Irons was born on January 11, 1990 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Two years later the family moved to a farm near Yoder, WY. Josh graduated from Southeast High School in 2008, and attended Pike’s Peak Community College where he studied his first passions, music and art. Josh loved working with his hands and was very mechanical. He held jobs including auto repair, factory work, construction, roofing, and landscape. Josh’s hobbies included hunting and fishing, snowboarding, and off-road motorcycles. He was involved in both secular and Christian bands, playing the guitar, drums and cajon. He loved to DJ weddings and parties using his sound mixing equipment and skills. He enjoyed attending concerts and music festivals whenever possible. Josh was a very well-loved, fun-loving, outgoing young man who easily made friends and touched lives wherever he was. After the city of Joplin, Missouri was destroyed by a tornado, Josh traveled there with a team of volunteers and worked for a month assisting with clean up. He came to West Michigan in late 2015 to attend Teen Challenge of Muskegon where he graduated the program and spent a short time on staff, after which he decided to make the area his home. He then spent most of 2017 in Zeeland living with his uncle and aunt. He was a member of Lake Effect Church in Grand Rapids, MI, where he worked as a volunteer managing and setting up their sound and recording systems each week, and occasionally sitting in with the worship band playing his cajon (box-drum). Josh is survived by his grandmother, Doris Wagner of Argyle, TX; mother, Ruth Irons of Argyle, TX; father, Alex Irons of Yoder, WY; sister, Katie Irons of Longmont, CO; brother, Herbert Irons (Megin) of Yoder WY; aunts, Karen Potter and Rebecca Sytsema (Jack); nieces Hannah Irons and Althea Cullian of Longmont, CO; nephew Graham Cullian of Argyle, TX; and cousins Christopher Potter (Amanda), Phillip Potter, Jennifer Potter, Nicholas Sytsema, Samuel Sytsema, Trey Sytsema, Elisabeth Potter, and Andrew Potter. He is predeceased by his grandmother Annabel Irons; grandfathers Alexander Irons, Sr. and C. Peter Wagner; and cousin Anna Sytsema.

Joshua Stewart Irons

January 11, 1990 - February 13, 2018