Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text. Standard text messaging rates apply. Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application. Open In Email Client. Send Flowers. He was a happy and active baby. BJ was a wonderful, gentle soul who drew people in as friends through a welcoming respectful demeanor and congenial disposition. Though the many who love him feel he is gone much too soon, he leaves a legacy of honor and accomplishments that rival many who had much more time.
One of the many ways parents Helen and Barry poured out their love onto BJ was through shepherding his education.
He was home-schooled for second grade by Mom Helen. BJ completed grades three through eight at the Charleston Day School where he earned Citizen of the Month during his last year and his principal observed BJ was a "young man poised to accomplish just about anything he puts his mind to. Gumb, Jr. Scholarship Award in At Camden, he was an outstanding scholar and a strategic leader. BJ became a staff sergeant and was record-keeper for his barracks.
In this role, BJ was responsible for recording attendance and documenting behavioral compliance actions for other students posted by the Camden faculty. He collected actions from professors and recorded where actions would be applied. In this work BJ supervised another high school student.
Another, perhaps less desirable, role was serving as counselor for students with repeat behavioral noncompliance. Having outpaced many colleagues in completing the high school curriculum, BJ left Camden Academy with a full year of college coursework when he graduated in BJ completed his second full year of college remotely during the coronavirus pandemic.
