Son of Richard Alan West and Ruth Janiece Lowrie.
Hometown: Bellaire, Texas
Sophomore at Texas A&M University
Ocean Engineering major
Member of Company C-2
Since 1909 Texas A&M University students and alumni have worked together each year to build a massive bonfire. The stack of several thousand logs collapsed early morning on November 18, 1999, killing Nathan and eleven other students and injuring at least 27 others. Bonfire was canceled that year. It was to have been ignited on Thanksgiving evening as a prelude to Texas A&M's November 26 morning football game with The University of Texas.
Texas Death Index: "Name: Nathan Scott West; Death Date: 18 Nov 1999; Death County: Brazos."
Son of Richard Alan West and Ruth Janiece Lowrie.
Hometown: Bellaire, Texas
Sophomore at Texas A&M University
Ocean Engineering major
Member of Company C-2
Since 1909 Texas A&M University students and alumni have worked together each year to build a massive bonfire. The stack of several thousand logs collapsed early morning on November 18, 1999, killing Nathan and eleven other students and injuring at least 27 others. Bonfire was canceled that year. It was to have been ignited on Thanksgiving evening as a prelude to Texas A&M's November 26 morning football game with The University of Texas.
Texas Death Index: "Name: Nathan Scott West; Death Date: 18 Nov 1999; Death County: Brazos."
Inscription
NATHAN
SCOTT WEST
APRIL 1, 1980
NOV. 18, 1999