Adam is more than a friend of Josh’s, they are like brothers. Adam is a friend of Josh’s entire family. There are certain people who enter your life with purpose and Adam is one of those rare and special people to Josh. Whenever the two were together they were content, they just fit together like tongue and groove. Josh absolutely loved Adam and thought that he knew how to do just about anything and whatever he didn’t know how to do he would figure it out. Now, I don’t know if Adam knew how to give a eulogy for his best friend in front of five or six hundred people, but he did it with grace and honor and love. Adam, your brave and capable and we appreciate you and love you like a son. Thank you.

“I would just like to start by thanking the family of Josh Bailey for allowing me the honor to speak to all of you about how Josh was able to touch mine and so many y’all’s hearts. Many of God’s blessings throughout our lives are delivered from our circumstances, events, and more importantly through the people we meet, so is the blessing of my friend josh. I’ve known him for around 5 years now. We just clicked instantly and never turned back, him and I could find a good time out of any situation we came across, for that I am so grateful because it allowed me the privilege of getting to know him as I did. The adventure was everyday, the sports, the fishing, down to shopping for a new hat or lures. How truly genuine a friend could be. Many nights he offered me a warm meal and a bed to sleep on. So often I found myself in the passenger seat of his truck singing along to old country songs and heading to a new fishing hole. Plain and simple; when you were with Josh Bailey, you just felt like life was easier. But that was how Josh carried himself, in a way that he hoped everyone around him would. In such a way that getting up in the morning wasn’t a task but purely a joy to see the sunrise over the bay again. Truly just grateful for the chance to go out and live. And based on all of the support gathered from his unfortunate loss. I know he instilled that upon everyone who met him. Josh took a piece of each and every one of us July 3rd. But knowing him the way we did I believe that he gave a bigger peice of himself back. To carry on with life as he would want us too, sure of ourselves, faithful, and living life to the fullest.” -Adam Schleitwiler