Ty Hunter Hightower, 21, has fulfilled the mission that God gave him to complete on this earth and has joined God in his eternal home in heaven. Ty was born on July 21, 1995 in Irving Texas. Ty attended school in the Grapevine/Colleyville school district and graduated from Grapevine High School in 2013, where he played on the GHS Golf Team. Ty was a senior at the University of North Texas.

Ty is survived by his parents Robert and Kelly, his brother Brett, his maternal grandparents Harold and Carolyn Pierce of Belleville, Arkansas, and his paternal grandmother Shirley Hightower of Hiram, Georgia. He is also survived by his girlfriend Summer Terry, of Southlake, Texas as well as aunts, an uncle, and cousins.

Funeral arrangements will be handled by Bluebonnet Hills Funeral Home in Colleyville. The memorial service is scheduled for Tuesday, May 2nd at 10:00am. A private family only burial will follow.