Donald Cameron Broyles

DONALD CAMERON BROYLES Donald Cameron Broyles, 57, lost his hard fought three year battle with multiple illnesses on Friday, October 24 2014. He was born July 23, 1957, the only child of Kenneth and Margaret Cameron Broyles of Visalia. He attended Willow Glen, Green Acres, and Redwood High School. In second grade he entered the Gifted Student Program and that gave him opportunities to participate in many activities with students from other local schools. One of the highlights was a summer school program that taught basics of a different language each week. On Friday of each week, they would prepare a food native to that country. In high school he built a harpsichord from a kit and it played beautifully. Donald was a very giving person. He was always there to help anytime family or friends needed him. He was a member of the local PFLAG chapter and very interested in efforts to prevent teen suicides. He loved camping with his parents and with the Boy Scouts. He earned the scouting GOD and Country Award with the associate pastor of the United Methodist Church. He became an Eagle Scout at 16. He also loved music and took part in all the musicals at Redwood. He graduated from University of the Pacific in Stockton in 1979. He participated in their musicals and with the Stockton Symphony. After graduation he went to work for AT&T. In 1989 he was transferred to AT&T Headquarters in Basking Ridge, NJ. to Join a team assigned to configure and implement a major change in AT&T operations. He retired in 2000 and returned to Visalia to be closer to his aging family. He started his own successful business as an Independent contractor doing network programming. He was contracted to work for Cox Communications when it was making changes to its systems. He was always busy with customers until his illnesses prevented it. He is survived by his mother and his best friend and primary caregiver, Enrique Cotton, who has been with him through the entire three years. He took care of him and his mother too. He was preceded in death by his father, grandmother Agatha Myers Cameron and his mother's aunts, Bettie Havekost, Grace Peebles, and Eunice Cartwright. His two grandfathers, Harry Broyles and Donald Cameron died before he was born. Visitation will be from 3pm to 7 pm on Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at Salser and Dillard Chapel, 127 E Caldwell Ave, Visalia. A brief graveside service will be at 10:00 am on Thursday, October 30, 2014, at Visalia District Cemetery. Any memorials can be sent to Kaweah Delta Hospice, 900 W. Oak, Visalia 93291 or to the donor's favorite charity.

Donald Cameron Broyles

July 23, 1957 - October 24, 2014