LOUDON, Tenn. – A tight-knit school community in Loudon County is remembering Ryan Seymour, a 17-year-old student who died Friday from injuries suffered in an auto accident.
The Daily Times newspaper reported that Seymour’s former teammates on the Greenback High School football team wore their jerseys to a three-hour-long memorial service at the school gym Sunday. Others wore shirts and jerseys with Seymour’s number “22” on them in honor of the former team captain.
Orange flowers and a polished Greenback football helmet rested atop the casket.
Seymour’s pastor David Freeman said the student “was a caregiver; his life was about other people.”
State police told WBIR-TV that Seymour was a passenger in a vehicle that ran off the edge of a sharp curve on Highway 129 and flipped over, throwing him and others from the vehicle. Authorities said driver inexperience was the apparent cause.