Celebration of life services for Justin E. Hightower will be held Thursday, June 17, 2004, at 4 p.m., at Living Word Fellowship Church, Oak Harbor, with Pastor Dave Veach officiating. Cremation was held with private family inurnment to follow at a later date.

Justin Hightower, 23, died near Albany, Ore.,June 12, from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. He was born Feb. 25, 1981, at Langley Air Force Base, Hampton, Virginia to Donald Paul and Betty Sue (Green) Hightower.

Justin moved with his family from Hampton to Anchorage, Alaska, at the age of one. The family spent 10 years in Alaska and in 1991 moved to Mountain Home, Idaho. July 1, 1994, Oak Harbor became home for the Hightower family. Justin attended school in Oak Harbor and also operated his own lawn mowing business.

Justin graduated from Oak Harbor High School with the Class of 1999. He went on to college at Washington State University, working toward his degree in construction management. P & L Construction and the Coachman Inn, both of Oak Harbor, employed him during the summers. Justin decided to complete his degree at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore. He was working as the night auditor at the Holiday Inn Express in Corvallis, awaiting entrance to OSU.

Justin loved the out-of-doors. He enjoyed fishing, crabbing, hiking, camping, backpacking, dirt biking, jet skiing, snowboarding, scuba diving and playing softball with the Holiday Inn Express team. He also enjoyed country-western music, traveling and was a man of many dreams. His greatest dream was to learn to fly.

Justin Hightower is survived by his parents, Don and Betty Hightower and his brother Christopher Paul Hightower and his adopted family, Jack and Patty Christian and their son Joshua, all of Oak Harbor. His grandfather, Everett Hightower of Grants Pass, Ore., and his grandmother Margie Green of Culpeper, Va., also survive him.

Memorials may be made to the Justin Hightower fund at any branch of Whidbey Island Bank. Arrangements are under the direction of Burley Funeral Chapel, Oak Harbor, Washington.