Brendon Burfield, 16, was a junior at Kennedale High School and died in a motorcycle crash on September 26. <\/p>\n
“Brendon and his friends did what he loved most,” The principal of Kennedale High School wrote on a social media post. “They went out riding their motorcycles. Near the end of the ride, Brendon had stopped his bike and was accidentally struck by a friend on another motorcycle.”<\/p>\n
Before moving to Kennedale, Brendon was a Venus ISD student. On Sunday, old classmates and his close friends and family gathered for a balloon release in his honor. <\/p>\n
“Brendon was a very, very outgoing person,” Chase Green, one of Brendon’s close friends, said.”Kind of brought everyone out of their shell.”<\/p>\n
A group of Brendon’s close friends spoke with NBC 5. They said he made everyone laugh, and that everyone loved being around him. <\/p>\n
Brendon is remembered for never being afraid to take risks, for always smiling and for always prioritizing his close relationships.<\/p>\n
“Even after school, he would come over here to Venus and just hang out with us,” Christopher Porter, one of Brendon’s close friends, said. <\/p>\n
As all who knew Brendon continue grieving, school communities are encouraging community healing through gatherings like Sunday’s balloon release. <\/p>\n
“It’s never going to get easier,” Chase said. “You’re just going to learn to live with it.”<\/p>\n
His friends said Brendon always wanted to build a 2nd generation truck. They told NBC 5 they plan to try to get together to fulfill that dream in his honor one day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendon Burfield, 16, was a junior at Kennedale High School and died in a motorcycle crash on September…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,22644,430],"class_list":["post-456657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-in-memoriam","tag-north-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}