He was a father, a son, a husband, a United States Army veteran, and a lot more.
“This was my baby,” his distraught mother, Joanne Devine, wrote in a Facebook post. “He’s my son. He was far more than an ‘American Water Employee.'”
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On Wednesday, May 29, just before 10 a.m., a vehicle collided with Sease’s crew at a job site on White Horse Pike in Magnolia, resulting in his murder and the injuries of three of his colleagues.
Sease’s coworkers at Water Workers Local 99 started a GoFundMe campaign, which as of Saturday, June 1, had raised $78,000.
Sease, a father of three from Sicklerville, grew up in Blackwood and Stratford before graduating from Sterling High School in 2015. You can find his obituary on the Egizi Funeral Home website.
Family members flocked to the disaster site to pay their respects at a monument.
Sease served in the United States Army until his medical retirement in 2018, at which point he joined American Water. When he died, he worked as a utility mechanic II.
That same year, Sease married Brittanie. The couple has three children: Aubree, seven; Julian, five; and Savannah, 21 months.
Sease was an avid Philadelphia Eagles fan, according to his mother.
“He often talked about how the Eagles got him through some really tough times in his life,” she explained.
“He joined the Army three days after turning 18.” During his first football season there, he talked about watching the opening game for weeks because he was homesick and the Eagles seemed like home.
“I remember him contacting me and being furious when he went to watch the game and discovered it wasn’t broadcast in upstate New York, where he was stationed.”He asked if I could find a way for him to view the game. I did. “I am so glad I did.”
His parents, Craig and Joanne Devine (Jessie Devine), siblings Kristin, Alana, and Devin Sease, as well as grandparents Wanda Sease, Leslie Bayliss, and Judith Rilling, survive him.
The Egizi Funeral Home will have a visitation from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Thursday, June 6, followed by a ceremony. The interment will take place at Hillcrest Memorial Park.
“Kyle’s big smile and infectious laugh will always be remembered,” the GoFundMe for his family reads. “He was close to his parents and siblings, and he loved his wife and three children. Everyone who knew him will miss him deeply.
