Stephen “Steev” Spickenreuther was born on November 26, 1987, at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, MS. He died at his home in Fargo, ND, on September 24, 2012.

Steev graduated from Vicenza High School in Vicenza, Italy, in 2005. He was a gifted child who took poetry classes at William & Mary College at the age of 8 and continued his love of writing throughout his entire life. He received the President’s Education Award and was the first 6th grader to go to the State Scripts Spelling Bee. As an adult, he loved fishing with friends and golfing and throwing his clubs. He loved playing his guitar and watching and living out movies but most of all, Steev loved being with his family and friends.

Steev is survived by his father Steve; mother Cheryl Moore; stepmother Kristin; stepfather Mark (Moore); brothers Mathew, Christian, Jonathan, and Thomas (Moore); sisters Amanda, Savannah, and Christina (Dasenko); paternal grandmother Corrine Morgan; and step-grandparents Barbara and John Moore and Ansel and Peggy Hakanson.

He is preceded in death by his maternal grandparents Luther and Irene McClanahan, and his uncle Johnnie Ray Spickenreuther.