| An eight-year-old Gilmer youth died Tuesday after collapsing during Little Pioneer football practice Monday evening.
Tyler Michael Maxwell of the Letter Gap Community was rushed to Minnie Hamilton Health System in Grantsville, being administered CPR by emergency workers.
He was the son of Jeffrey and Shawna Pierce Maxwell.
Tyler would have been a 3rd grader at Normantown Elementary School.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11:00 a.m. Friday the First Baptist Church, Main St., Glenville with Rev. Kenny Fisher and Rev. Phil Shields officiating.
Burial will follow in the Job's Temple Cemetery, Rt. 5 West, Glenville. Friends may call 4-8 p.m., Thursday at the church.
Ellyson Mortuary, Inc. in charge of arrangements.
Family members said he loved and excelled at all sports spending time riding a 4-wheeler and working in the garden with his great-grandfather and driving the lawn mower.
He attended the First Baptist Church of Glenville.
He is survived by a sister, Alexis Lauren Maxwell at home; maternal grandparents Jim and Carolyn Williamson Pierce of Glenville; paternal grandparents Danny F. and Teresa Woodford Maxwell of Glenville; paternal great-grandparents Albert and Betty Duelley Maxwell of Glenville; maternal great-grandparents Dave and Claudette Crawford Pierce of Glenville; paternal great-grandfather Robert Woodford of Boaz and the late Lorena Clark Woodford; two uncles survive: Erik R. Maxwell of Glenville and Brian K. Pierce of Virginia; great uncle and aunt Dave and Jeannie Pierce of Buckhannon and numerous cousins.
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