A true friend ...I knew Kevin and famaly since the 80s.   We worked together for years in heating and air  over 20 years in sheet metal and HVAC 
He was a good person inside with a call for the outdoors ...skiing ... motorcycle riding.... shooting....boating ....wake board...water ski...🏁👌👍
Life is hard but some how he made his way thru life 🧬 and the trials of living free ....
He worked for me for over 7years and lived at my house with Terry for a couple of years 😎 we had a lot of good BBQ party's and good times together.....we did to much to list it all ...but know you will be missed .....we hung in duch flat ca.alot and he also loved Tahoe .......KT22 for life 😎👍.....he was my friend😥😀😃

Kevin was born in Sacramento and lived in the greater Sac area his whole life.

He did not have any kids of his own, but other kids were drawn to him and liked him, and he mostly tolerated them.  :) 

He lived in poverty his whole life,  and even tho he was dirt poor most the time, he had a decent concise, and would never harm anybody for his personal gain.  

He will be missed, I know I will miss our conversations about life in general.    

In spite of his rough upbringing, Kevin still enjoyed some things in life.  
His main joy it seemed was boating and fishing.  One the few times he spoke of happy memories was going fishing with his grandpa a few times as a kid, he really cherished those times.  

He liked to cook, and he worked as a chef on-and-off for a good 20+ years.  

He also enjoyed eating, especially anything seafood, and the "fishier" the better, like oysters on the half shell and sardines from the can on a cracker.   He was impressive at a buffet.

Smoking was also on his "like" list, I don't think he ever tried to quit.

He rode motorcycles since he was a teenager, but slowed down in his 50s on his 1984 Honda? sport bike..... he said it was "so much bike to handle", but he liked that bike.

He liked the natural world and the beauty it contains, he liked unique things created by nature, and had a nice little collection of items.   

Sometimes it was hard to tell, but he was a deep thinking and a deep feeling  human.  
He was diagnosed as a child with ADHD and a high IQ and a fine motor nerve problem.   This combo made it difficult for him and he never got proper care or treatments for it.  

His life was mostly difficult.  
He managed most the time the best he could.  
He was often misunderstood.  
He was not pretentious.  
He was my bro


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Kevin Bryan West

March 5, 1969 – January 24, 2023

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