Greg Vandergriff

Greg Vandergriff, a longtime resident of Lubbock, Texas, was tragically killed in a car accident last Friday morning, August 5th. He was only 41 years old. Greg was born to Antoinette Carpenter and Greg Vandergriff, Sr. in Knoxville, TN., where he lived until his mother finished Officer Training School for the United States Air Force. With the USAF, Greg was given the opportunity to live in many states, including Tulsa OK and Roswell NM where he attended New Mexico Military Institute. He finished his high school years at Goddard High School in Roswell, where he attained a 4.6 GPA which awarded him a scholarship to Colorado State. Greg’s love was science, and he always wanted to be a part of improving the world. From CO Greg moved to TX, where he met his first wife Laura, who he married in March 1999. They had two beautiful boys, Nicholas (Nixon) and Ethan, now 17 and 12. A few years later, Greg and Laura parted lives, and he met Summer. They were married in November 2014, and then had another beautiful son, Kaden, who is 18 months. His dream was to be a biochemist and learn how to replicate his DNA to clone people so they no longer felt pain or sickness. While he had not completed his journey in science, Greg loved his family and he will be fondly missed by his children and all of his family and friends. "Do not think of me as gone – I am with you still – in each and every new dawn." Survivors include his wife, Summer Vandergriff, three sons, Nicholas, Ethan, and Kaden Vandergriff; two step-children, Kobie and Cohen Jackson; sister, Genete Bowen and husband, Jeff; two brothers, Shawn Vandergriff and wife, Erin, and Aaron Carpenter and wife, Rachel. He is also survived by his mother, Antoinette Carpenter and her husband, Bill; father, Gregory Vandergriff, Sr. and his wife, Susan, and paternal grandmother, Mildred Norris.