Ryan Richard Kennedy

Ryan passed away with his wife by his side, surrounded by friends and co-healthcare providers April 26, 2025, at the Intermountain Health ER in Cedar City, Utah. Born May 14, 1976, in Ogden, Utah at the McKay-Dee Hospital where his mother worked as an RN. His father Rick David Kennedy was also at the main event. Ryan graduated in 1994 from Clearfield High School.

After returning from serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in the Mexico City south mission he began working as an orderly for McKay-Dee Hospital. It was while working there he was invited to sit in the Life Flight Helicopter and visit with the pilot. The seed was planted for the dream of flying for the hospital. After flight training, he became an instructor pilot while earning more flight hours. When he had enough flight hours, he began to fly transport in the Gulf of Mexico oil fields. His first EMS flight position was with Good Samaritan AirCare in Kearney, Nebraska. While there he completed his BS in Flight Sciences from Utah Valley University and earned Chief Pilot. He also flew for OSF Life Flight in Bloomington, IL. The goal of flying Life Flight Helicopters for Intermountain Health was finally achieved in January 2023. All along the way he made countless friends that he kept in contact with. Ryan flew his final mission just hours before his passing. He loved flying and getting his patients where they needed to be as fast and as safely as possible.

Ryan and Marissa were married in Las Vegas on November 27, 2020. Ryan and Marissa made their home in Kearney, NE before making the move to Cedar City, Utah in 2023. Ryan, Marissa, and Ethan were blessed with the people they met, the Southern Utah landscape, new adventures, and the opportunities they all found with the move to Cedar City.

Ryan is survived by his wife, Marissa, children; daughter, Grace, sons, Aiden and Ethan Kennedy , and Stepson, Jarett Morgan-Kermmoade. Parents, Robert and Vonda Mclean, brothers, Travis Kennedy, Clint Mclean, sisters Jamie Kennedy, Mindy Henderson, Laurie Frost., and many uncles and aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces.

He was preceded in death by his father, Rick, sister, Trina, and his grandparents.

Funeral services will be held Monday May 5, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. at Lindquist’s Layton Mortuary, 1867 N. Fairfield Rd., Layton, Utah. Family and friends may visit Friday May 2, 2025 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Enoch Ward Chapel, 1390 E. Midvalley Rd, Enoch, Utah. A second viewing will be held Sunday May 4, 2025 from 6 to 8 p.m. and Monday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the mortuary.

Private family burial site services to be held in Eden. Family and friends are invited to a luncheon at Liberty Second Ward at 4279 N 3300 E, Liberty, UT.

The funeral service will be lie-streamed and may be viewed by scrolling to the bottom of Ryan's obituary page at www.lindquistmortuary.com

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