Memorial Picture Board for Edrik Gomez
Emerging as a leader
Edrik Gomez was spending his first year as a firefighter, said Lauri Red, a next-door neighbor.
He would have been a junior this fall pursuing double majors in communications and political science at Southern Oregon University. He had been living with two of his four brothers on campus in Ashland.
“He was just a really good soul,” Red said, wiping her face. “He always had a smile. If the lawn needed mowing, he’d mow it.”
Christine Florence, executive director of marketing at Southern Oregon, said Gomez went to Coquille High School and arrived at the university after transferring from Southwestern Oregon Community College in Coos Bay.
D.L. Richardson, chairman of the communications department at Southern Oregon, said Gomez impressed him as having “a compassion for his fellow man.”
“He was one of those students who would go out… and pour out his heart to help people,” Richardson said. “You could see it in class… he was an insightful student, very dedicated to his studies.”
Outside the classroom, Richardson said, Gomez was very involved with Latino Student Union.
“I think he was a driving force behind really helping bring the Latino Student Union to the forefront and helping the different groups of the multicultural coalition come together, be a united force and do great things in the community,” Richardson said.
In that respect, Gomez was emerging as a leader, he added.
– Wade Nkrumah
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