A benefit to help purchase the headstone for infant Ryker Cole Tucker of Bethany will be held on Saturday, Jan. 14 at the Vikings/Kamlers bar in Cameron, 105 East Grand Street. The meal will be at 3 p.m., followed by an auction at 4 p.m. Bands will start at 8 p.m. and include Collapse and Bridges Burnt.
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Donations for items for the auction and food donations for the dinner are being accepted. The event is being organized by Dawn Stitt Brink. She may be contacted at 660-367-4250. Her daughter Ashlyn may be contacted at 660-868-1578.
Ryker Cole Tucker, son of Ashlyn Sweat and Cody Tucker, was born Aug. 28, 2016, in Trenton, and passed away on Oct. 22, 2016, at Harrison County Community Hospital.
Adam and Dawn Brink are maternal grandparents. Marvin and Crystal Tucker and Donald Graham are paternal grandparents. Maternal great-grandparents are Larry Stitt and the late Julie Stitt. Paternal great-grandparents are Charles Tucker and the late Dorva Tucker and Donald and Mary Terry.
An autopsy report has not yet been completed; however, Sudden Infant Death Sydrome (SIDS) is suspected as the cause of death, according to Dawn Stitt Brink.
Ryker is buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery next to his great-grandmother Julie Stitt.
Memorials may also be made to the Ryker Cole Tucker Memorial Fund c/o Roberson Funeral Home, P.O. Box 46, Bethany, Mo., 64424.