White River Junction, Vt. —
Aidan graduated from Hartford High School in 2013 where he completed the Hartford Area Career and Technology Center Industrial Mechanics and Welding program. In high school, Aidan played football and rowed for four years including two years with the Upper Valley Rowing Foundation. After high school, Aidan attended the New England Culinary Institute before moving to Brooklyn, N.Y. to continue developing his cooking skills in a variety of restaurants. He loved to share his culinary gifts with his family and friends. He appreciated all types of music and was a voracious reader.
Aidan was passionate about social justice issues especially advocating for racial equality and the rights of people in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning community.
Aidan was born in Fort Worth, Texas on Jan. 19, 1995. Members of his family include his parents, Joyce Anne Mechling (Nagle) and Warren Charles (Chuck) Nagle Jr.; his brother, Conor Barnes Nagle and sister Isabelle Aalijah Marie Nagle; paternal grandmother, Ardelle Hemmig Nagle; aunts Sheri Nagle (Jeff Ogorzalek) and Libby Nagle (Mike O’Connell); uncle Paul Mechling; and cousins Amanda, Jeremy and Emily Ogorzalek and Kevin, Erin and Brian O’Connell. Aidan is predeceased by maternal grandparents, Joan (Barnes) and Dick Harper and paternal grandfather, Warren Charles (Bud) Nagle Sr. Aidan also leaves behind his many friends whose lives touched his and he touched theirs.
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal,” from an Irish headstone.
A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 21, 2018, at St Paul’s Episcopal Church in White River Junction.
The family requests that contributions in Aidan’s memory be made to Headrest’s 24-hour crisis hotline in Lebanon, N.H. (http://headrest.org/donation/ or Headrest, Inc. 14 Church St., Lebanon, NH 03766).
If you or anyone you know needs help, please reach out and call the Headrest hotline at 603-448-4400.