(From Simpson Funeral Home)Dalton Boyd Candelaria was born on Friday, August 23, 1991 in Joplin, Mo. We lost Dalton tragically on Friday, April 16, 2021.
He loved playing baseball, basketball, and football starting with T-ball at the age of 5. He was a good student, and had an amazing sense of eye-hand coordination, being able to throw and hit a target when he just turned 4!! However, his biggest joy was being with friends.
He loved to shoot hoops with friends, and his parents Sarah and Craig once came home to find a basketball court spray painted on Tanglewood Drive in front of the house. His first job was at the Underground Paintball (where he worked for paintballs instead of pay).
The combination of an early, active sports life and rapid bone growth caused a Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis (SCFE) in both of his hips, resulting in the need for surgeries in 2004 and 2005, and additional adjustment surgery in 2009.
Dalton attended his senior prom on crutches (with his best friend Jared Yenzer’s girlfriend/future wife Hailey Yenzer – thanks, Haley, for doing Dalton a solid!). Dalton graduated from Carl Junction High School in 2010 and attended Pittsburg State University for one year.
Although Dalton struggled with addiction beginning with the pain medication from the surgeries for most of his adult life, he maintained important and meaningful relationships and had the unique quality of caring deeply for his family and friends. He made everyone around him feel safe and loved.
Although Dalton struggled with addiction beginning with the pain medication from the surgeries for most of his adult life, he maintained important and meaningful relationships and had the unique quality of caring deeply for his family and friends. He made everyone around him feel safe and loved.
In the last year, Dalton had worked hard to overcome his addiction. With the help of The Core Recovery Program in Springfield, Mo., Dalton in the last six months was very proud of the positive changes he had made in his life, living in Springfield with the support of affiliated residential recovery and working at We Care Associates LLC where he’d found a loving community of friends and colleagues.
It is an understatement to say that Dalton was devoted to fashion in his own unique way. Like his grandmother Klein, he often wore watches as a fashion accessory whether they were running or not. He was a connoisseur of a crazy range of music and musicians from all genres, and especially reveled in discovering the music of new artists. Dalton was funny and endearing and smart and loving and kind, and he had dreams and plans for a bright future.
Dalton is survived by his loving parents, Sarah and Craig Hoagland, and Tina and David Candelaria, and by his favorite sister Bethany Hope Hoagland. He was adored and will be missed terribly by his grandparents, Alice Boyd Klein (and the late Jack Eldon Klein) and Nancy Cook Allen, by his many aunts and uncles, Robin Whatley, Chip Whatley, Yvette Pettit, Renee and Matt Worthington, Christi Hoagland, Gina Candelaria, Stefanie and Hal Simpson, Jeff Candelaria, and Stephanie England, by his cousins Andrea, Dagen, Paloma, Austin, Dawsen, Adam, Aryne, Preston and Allie, and by his many caring and cherished friends far too many to list.
Services are under the care and direction of Simpson Funeral Home in Webb City, Missouri.
It is an understatement to say that Dalton was devoted to fashion in his own unique way. Like his grandmother Klein, he often wore watches as a fashion accessory whether they were running or not. He was a connoisseur of a crazy range of music and musicians from all genres, and especially reveled in discovering the music of new artists. Dalton was funny and endearing and smart and loving and kind, and he had dreams and plans for a bright future.
Dalton is survived by his loving parents, Sarah and Craig Hoagland, and Tina and David Candelaria, and by his favorite sister Bethany Hope Hoagland. He was adored and will be missed terribly by his grandparents, Alice Boyd Klein (and the late Jack Eldon Klein) and Nancy Cook Allen, by his many aunts and uncles, Robin Whatley, Chip Whatley, Yvette Pettit, Renee and Matt Worthington, Christi Hoagland, Gina Candelaria, Stefanie and Hal Simpson, Jeff Candelaria, and Stephanie England, by his cousins Andrea, Dagen, Paloma, Austin, Dawsen, Adam, Aryne, Preston and Allie, and by his many caring and cherished friends far too many to list.
Services are under the care and direction of Simpson Funeral Home in Webb City, Missouri.
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