Seth Christian Rupenthal

SETH RUPENTHAL’S CELEBRATION OF LIFE SERVICE

My son, Seth Christian Rupenthal was killed in a tragic truck accident on May 29, 2022 in Indianapolis.  We will be holding a Celebration of Life Service for family and friends of Seth Rupenthal on Friday evening, June 24, 2022 at the Calvary Chapel on the Horizon Church, 1117 Bridgeport Rd. Indianapolis, IN. 46231. Doors will be open at 6PM with services beginning at 7:00PM

Web link:   http://calvarychapel-horizon.org/     Church Phone (317) 247-7777

You are certainly welcome and encouraged to attend Seth’s Celebration of Life Service. I along with other family members and friends will be sharing more of Seth’s life stories with an eye looking forward to the glorious future ahead with great anticipation and confidence. Please feel free to stop by and share your story and your experiences you had with my son Seth.

Memorial contributions can be made to Seth Rupenthal Children’s Memorial Scholarship Fund. All funds received will be used to offset education expenses and college tuition costs of Seth’s minor children.

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SETH’S HISTORY IN BRIEF

Seth was born September 18, 1988 to Steven and Kathleen Rupenthal. Seth was dearly loved as a baby boy, a toddler, a small growing boy, an elementary student, a high school student, a college student, a young man, a father, and now he is loved in death.

Seth’s initial rebirthday of June 6, 1994 rings a pleasant sound as Seth accepted Jesus Christ into his heart on that day. I fondly remember the day where I, along with Pastor Jeff Seward, baptized Seth in a backyard swimming pool. It was a beautiful day getting down into the water watching Seth make his public affirmation faith in Jesus Christ as his personal savior. Yes, that was a beautiful day!

Seth was a 2007 academic honors graduate of Ben Davis High School and was an accomplished track and cross country athlete. Seth was a member of the 2007 ISHAA state runner-up boys track team and 31st place finisher in the Boys Semi-State Cross Country competition with a time of 16 minutes and 34 seconds.  Seth graduated from Lincoln College of Technology in October 2010 with a degree in Diesel and Truck Technology. Seth was employed as a heavy duty truck mechanic at Rays Trash Service, Republic Services, Hertz Equipment Rental, Cavallo Bus Lines, and Young and Sons Asphalt Paving. He then later started his own company Brickyard Garage Doors, Indianapolis, Indiana which he operated up to the time of his death.

SETH THE PERSON AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS

Seth was an amazing person in many ways. He was strong, athletic, tenacious, daring, entrepreneurial, a real fighter, an introspective young man, and a loving father too. He will be missed by our family and countless other friends!

We had 33 years with Seth. As father and son relationships go, we had our fair share of disagreements and we certainly looked at the world quite differently at times but I loved Seth just the same – I will always love Seth!

We shared many fine moments with Seth talking, joking around, building all kinds of things, welding and fabricating custom industrial and experimental parts, repairing his house, rebuilding and repairing cars, camping, and day hiking out at Eagle Creek. Seth especially loved back country camping and backpacking with his cousins Marc, Ian and Eric, the Ferklic clan – Steve, Joey and Nick, Grandfather Wayne Rupenthal, Uncle Kurt, his brother Kalev, and myself.

Seth enjoyed working together with his brother Kalev on many things which included pulling a Porsche engine using a folding step ladder, building a back yard fort made of scrap and recovered lumber for Seth’s two boys, traversing the neighborhood creeks and storm sewer system with his brother Kalev as young boys, and of course pulling his little brother behind his pickup truck on a snowboard.…just to name a few!

Seth enjoyed shooting rifles, operating model trains, building snow men together when he was a little boy, playing football together with his two sons Connor and Ethan in the yard, shooting off model rockets at the Ben Davis football and soccer fields on 21^st Street when he was young boy and then later with his two sons Connor and Ethan and with his brother Kalev and sister Yakira, rebuilding an old cub Cadet tractor, talking on the ham radio, and talking about God and any number of other subjects that came to mind, some of which we would agree on and others not so much, …we did however, completely agree on one thing and that was the saving grace of Jesus Christ that we all need!

As Seth’s father, I know now that growing older is a privilege denied to many as Seth’s mother and I now join the ranks of parents who have lost children. As parents we don’t expect the natural circle of life to be disrupted with the untimely death of a child but it happens for reasons that only God knows. As a family we are all grieving and we will certainly miss Seth. A father’s love for his children is immeasurable.

Seth’s life was challenging on many levels and without a doubt the best view comes after the hardest climb. Seth fought hard, endured much, and carried considerable personal anguished over many things but now all is laid to rest. Seth has earned his reward and now he has the best view of all!

Seth will never be forgotten. He was always loved in life and he is also loved in death. Seth leaves behind countless friends, two fine sons Connor Rupenthal and Ethan Rupenthal and a sweet little daughter Raylin Michelle Taskey, the greater Rupenthal family, his grandmother Joyce Rupenthal, mother Kathleen (Connor) Rupenthal, his sister Yakira Rupenthal, his little brother Kalev Rupenthal, and myself, Seth’s earthly father. We all love Seth and we know that God loves Seth too! Seth’s passing however, is not the end of his story but rather it’s a mere transition of life.

The transition from this life is a mystery that we all can have great confidence in through the knowledge, grace, and salvation of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

“I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

“Where, O death, is your victory?

 Where, O death, is your sting?”

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

I Corinthians 15: 51- 57

THE PASSING OF THE BATON

For me, as Seth’s earthly father, this is a time of passing the baton as if we are in a relay race that Seth dearly loved. So, I now I pass the baton and hand off Seth into the everlasting arms of ABBA FATHER, Seth’s heavenly FATHER, who is omnipotent, the Lord of Lords, eternal, loving beyond measure, and full of grace to an extent we can only imagine in our limited understanding and humanness.

It is my prayer that now with the help of the Holy Spirit living inside of me I release Seth, commit him, and fully entrust him into the everlasting arms and eternal loving care of ABBA FATHER who gave His only Son Jesus Christ to die in our place so that we might become His righteousness in Him.

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

2 Corinthians 5:21

It is with great hope and confidence in the risen Savior Jesus Christ that we all move forward with our lives. Crying goes on for the night but joy comes in the morning. I know Seth is in heaven and his spirit is resting safely in the arms of ABBA FATHER. I look forward to the day when I get to see him again.

That will be a beautiful day!

Steven Rupenthal

Seth’s Father

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