QUOGUE, NY – On Sunday morning he got up and, if life had gone according to plan, Ryan Kiess, 25, would have played golf; his departure time was set last week, hours before he and 4 other people were killed in a head-on crash in Quogue.
Instead, on Sunday, Ryan’s parents, Kurt and Nina Kiess, first visited the place on Montauk Highway where the twist of fate claimed the lives of their only child.
A bright bouquet of sunflowers, an angel and stones with their names left at the spot where the five died and where the only survivor of the accident, Brianna Maglio, 24, of Garden City, Ryan’s friend for six years, was left in critical condition. condition.
The colors orange and blue also marked the place; the colors are the color of Manhasset High School, where Ryan and his brothers Michael Farrell, 20, and James Farrell, 25, have left a long legacy of accomplishments on the sports fields and in their acts of kindness toward others.
In the road aspect there were also red and blue balloons. The balloons, Nina Kiess said, were originally ordered for a July 4 party that was postponed due to weather. She called Party City in New Hyde Park, where staff members filled them with Helium and Ryan took them home for the party, organized to celebrate the Kiess family’s new home in Remsenburg.
“It’s our first party. My son is very proud of this house. All his friends were in the cabin, playing and dancing,” Kurt Kiess said. the living room and I got in the car, and that was the last time I saw my son. “
Looking at the sun balloons on Sunday, Nina said, “Who knew we would leave them at the scene of the accident?
Reflecting on that night, Nina said the “what if” swirled in her mind. Seeing the place for the first time, he said, was “just surreal. “She is grateful that her son has been at home with his circle of family members. During the year following the pandemic for those precious moments. Her son, she said, enjoyed dining German food from her family roots circle, and that, along with the lime pie and all of his favorites, will be served after his funeral, he said.
Chunks of debris on the ground a week after the violent accident.
Justin B. Mendez, 22, of Brookhaven, who was driving a red Nissan Maxima and collided head-on with a gray Toyota Prius on the Montauk Highway and Quogue Street (east) died shortly after at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, police said. The Prius’ driving force, Farhan Zahid, 32, of Bay Shore, an Uber driving force, and the Farrells and Kiess were killed at the scene, police said. Maglio remains hospitalized in critical condition, police said.
Investigators were quick to possibly have been one thing in the crash, police said. , possibly he would have turned off his headlights when police began tracking him down.
The Farrell brothers were buried Friday when a bunch of mourning people, many of them young, traveled to Port Washington for emotional and honest service.
Looking at the flowers and messages, Kurt was filled with excitement: “The heroes rest here,” he said. These 4 heroes here, those 4 angels, stored Brianna. We did. “
Kurt and Nina added, “This has never happened, and it will never happen again. “
Kurt advocated for innovations in road safety, a central divider, on site.
“Angels, in peace,” Nina said.
Ryan Kiess is survived by his parents, sisters Nicole and Kim, grandparents Klaus and Nancy, Anna Calace-Mottola and his fiancée Brianna Maglio, says his obituary, via Fairchild Sons, Inc. Funeral Chapel. ” Instead of flowers, the circle of relatives asks. “for donations for Brianna’s medical expenses. There will be more data on this as soon as the main points are completed. “
Hours of operation will take place on Thursday, August 5, from 3 p. m. to 8 p. m. at Fairchild Funeral Chapel, at 1570 Northern Blvd. en Manhasset. A funeral service will be held on Friday, August 6, from 11:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. La Lutheran Church of Our Savior, in 1901 Northern Blvd. in The Burial of Manhasset it will remain from 1 p. m. at 1:30 p. m. at Nassau Knolls Cemetery, at 500 Pt. Washington Boulevard in Port Washington.
Kurt Kiess stated that his son Ryan had been friends with brothers James and Michael since elementary school in Manhasset.
“They lived two hundred meters away; they took the school bus in combination and were sports teammates, playing lacrosse. I trained all those kids in lacrosse,” he said. His son played lacrosse in high school and college, he said.
“There was a giant organization of them, the man has established the maximum school elegance of 2014. The boys were very close, they were together,” he said.
The young people, he said, were “very loving. They were the first in you. They enjoyed the music, they enjoyed their friends. ” And, he says, they enjoyed playing golf in combination at North Hempstead Country Club. “friends,” said Kiess. They were the most productive friends in the world. “
Her son met Brianna at the University of Scranton; or they were playing lacrosse and had been dating for six years, Kiess said. “They were a couple,” he said. We pray for her. “
He added: “You see those things on the news and you say, ‘It’s something else,’ and then it becomes your family. “
Young people an Uber to be safe, he said. ” They were doing the right thing. “
His son and friends, Kiess said, “were all smart kids. “His son was an accountant at KPMG and had just been promoted. “Everyone was at the beginning of their careers, it was unlimited: they had their whole lives ahead of them. “
Through tears, Kiess said, “Our hearts are forever damaged. Our lives will never be the same again. We love our son, and we will love him. “
As they walked in his car, passing the flowers and messages, Kiess quietly said, “Pray for Bri. “