SANTA ROSA, Calif. (KRON) – A North Bay household is remembering a loving husband and pal who died in a airplane crash in Alaska. Santa Rosa native Andrew Gonzalez was amongst 10 individuals killed when the airplane he was in went down earlier this month.
The loss has been heartbreaking for Gonzalez’s spouse Whitney and his family members. They are saying there may be nothing that might ever substitute his spirit of their lives.
“He’s someone that is very hard to define because he is so many things,” Gonzalez’s spouse Whitney Bowers mentioned. “Soul-crushing. Everyone is at a loss. It is unimaginable what is our current reality.”
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The small commuter airplane carrying Gonzalez and others went down within the Bering Sea. Gonzalez, who labored as an influence technology technician, needed to journey loads to small distant areas.
“So I was at home waiting to confirm him landing from that flight and pretty much what happened, got a feeling, checked a flight tracker and no new information on it and I knew something was wrong,” Bowers remembers.
Bowers by no means received the decision from Gonzalez. His stays, together with the others, had been discovered by search crews days later.
Bowers and Gonzalez each grew up in Santa Rosa and received engaged and moved to Alaska again in 2022 Whitney is shut with Gonzalez’s older sister Francesca Arga, who can be grieving.
“He’s my baby brother. He was the heart of our family. We’re all feeling it, all of us,” Arga mentioned.
Gonzalez’s coworkers Michael Fowl and Jared Beaudoin are additionally feeling the ache. Fowl’s favourite factor to do with Gonzalez was having sport evening.
“He definitely had a sense of humor that could make anybody laugh, and you never knew it was coming. He was a blast to work with,” Fowl mentioned.
Beaudoin helped Gonzalez get his job in Alaska.
“He lived life full. He loved deep and he captured the hearts of everybody. I don’t think I ever met anybody who didn’t like him,” Beaudoin mentioned.
Gonzalez’s mother-in-law Heather Bowers shared he was Whitney’s world.
“That was her universe, that was everything, and we loved him. He was part of our family too. He was part of so many people’s families. He was a great human being, and he’s going to be so severely missed,” she mentioned.
The household is specializing in shifting ahead and therapeutic and have created a GoFundMe to assist with funeral bills and different monetary wants.
