Had he lived, Paul Ostler would be 35 this year. But he is frozen in the minds of those who loved him: a boy of 15 his mother described even before his death as “full of light.”
“What a quirky kid,” Teresa Ostler told Deseret News this week. “He could be a little persnickety. A little cranky. And stubborn as the day was long. If everyone else in the family wanted to go to one movie, he wanted to go to something different. We’d just laugh about it.”
He was also a teenager of uncommon kindness and concern for others, those who still love him mightily agree. He loved books to an extraordinary degree, especially Harry Potter books, but his range was vast. In school, he had a friend who didn’t like to read, which was unfathomable to Paul…