Poetic Obituaries: Growing up in Texas, [Kurtis] Chaivre won

second prize in a poetry contest for Houston youth sponsored by the PBS television show "Reading Rainbow." In one of his poem, he wrote, "If I were the moon, shimmering in the night, I would shine through your window at night, so you wouldn't be alone in the dark."

When his family moved back to Kalamazoo in 2002, Chaivre, a natural performer, participated in theater at Hackett.

from Kalamazoo Gazette: Kurtis Chaivre, 24, was 'just everything to everybody,' his mother says

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