Neph (who else would invent numerous personas?) - 

Your life gives us memories too beautiful to forget.  (unattributed I found on internet)

Thinking about you today my friend. Miss you. 

“Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure. You are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.” – Unknown

A vision of Kaila

We celebrated hard for her 30th Birthday 🎉

Today on her birthday I celebrate Kaila’s continued presence. She inspires me to live more actively and creatively. As a result of losing her, I try to engage more meaningfully with people I care about. I am grateful for her and feel more happiness than sorrow, picturing her beautiful smiles, from contemplative Mona Lisa Kaila to bursting-at-the-seams, pure joy Kaila. 

Happy birthday Kaila. I biked this morning to Hains Point where we used to go running. The light morning breeze was a gentle reminder of all the time we spent here. Miss you. 

I miss you every day Kray Kray. I was thinking about your Buffalo/DC tattoo the other day when I was looking at a friend's shirt. I was laughing too hard to even tell the story. He didn't understand what was so funny. I miss you always laughing with me even if it didn't make sense.  I love you. 

Kaila Raybuck,

You were one of the first friends I made after moving to DC. You always brightened my session even if it was always bouldering. You're one of the few climbing friends I made that transcended past the climbing gym. After you moved to NY and then CO we kept kept in touch sharing the latest banger on spotify or talking about the most recent climbing/parkour/gymnastic/flip/dance thing we were doing. You had a proclivity of being weird with your bow ties and top hats and that inspired me. I remember your love for roof top apartments and a great view as we shared pictures of the monuments. You reached out to climb ~month before you passed and even tough we couldn't make it work, I wish I had that one more bouldering session with you cart wheeling off the wall, laughing. You're missed, and I will pick up plastic bottles remembering the one that got away. I hope you're dancing off into after life and until we meet again. Stay buff!

I was a former co-worker of Kaila's, and I have fond memories of her talking about her activities and her pet fish Tron that she had in her office.   In early October, some of my co-workers showed me notices that she was a missing person last seen in DC, which I now know was not accurate.  Please e-mail if you have more information about what happened.

Hello my name is Joe even though Kaila referred to me as Ward; Kaila and I were connected at binghamton through my best friend Matt Wetzel and his roommate Nick Hotto, always got along than tragedy struck and Matt passed away in 2017. I havent seen Kaila at least point for half a decade and she dropped her work plans and everything personal she had going on to pay respects to Matt. We became infinitely closer after he passed and she quickly became one of the most influential figures ive had the pleasure of being apart of my life. I legit wouldnt have the job or career aspirations that i do now if it wasnt for her pushing me every morning to be better. When she passed I found out 12 hours before I left for a camping trip/music fesitval that Kaila and I always dreamt of doing together. So in the midst of the chaos I found a random neighbor and had an out of body experience in which i was in a room with Kaila as if we never left eachothers side. We spoke for about an hour and She explained she is at peace now and gets to spend time with Wetzel and that no one in her life should carry the burden of trying to do better; not cause that would change anything because she sees the full value in the important people in her life. She was a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day and the glass half full type of person even if the glass is knocked over onto a table. An absolute gem of a human and a tragedy we lost her. I love you Kaila I know you and Matt are now together looking down on everyone you love and im lucky enough to feel it.

I knew Kalia during our brief time at UMD MBA. We were classmates and worked on a few group projects together.  She seemed so ready to graduate and explore the next phase of her career post-grad. RIP my friend 

Miss you so much my friend. 

Unfortunately I can’t find any pictures. But I was blessed by four plus years of spending time at the Raybuck’s house for young peoples gatherings. So my memories of Kaila often had to do with being goofy together with her sisters and playing in the basement. I remember one time I was “babysitting “ and we found a bird stuck in their basement, it was a crazy fiasco to get it out. I was always amazed by Kailas physical strength and flexibility. She was a delight to be around.  

My deepest condolences to Kaila's family and those close to her.

A funny story I remember about Kaila was, there was some company wide call of probably a 1000 people,  everyone had on formal business attire, but when Kaila had logged on, she was in some gothic style black dress, almost like a vampire princess, we could hear friends in the background, and clearly she was getting ready for some party that night. But what stuck out was this was a person who knew how to be herself. Kaila wasn't afraid of judgement, and in that moment I knew the friendship that would soon develop over the course of the year, would connect me to of one of the kindest, helpful, funny, and most entertaining people I had come to meet in my life.

I first met Kaila when she was flown out to to Portland for the announcement that Beacon was acquired by Accenture. I met her again in Boston for a company training. While I only saw her twice in person, I really got to know Kaila because she was my research partner on my very first project for 6 months, when she lived in Denver. Over that period of time not only got to know her as a person, I developed a very close friendship with her. We had similar interest in green energy, and we just clicked, on many levels.

She went out of her way this spring to help me clean up my resume and find me people to connect to in DC, because she was adamite I would really find myself there. One thing she told me was "follow your dreams even it meant going against the tide." She had no problem of speaking her mind and reminding me "you do not want to be another boring 3/4 sweater vest" and encouraged me to come to DC in the new year. 

I intend to honor Kaila by moving to D.C. and following my dreams. 

I hope wherever you are Kaila you are doing something exiting.

You will be dearly missed by us all. 

 

I saw pieces of myself in Kaila from the moment we met - but hers were brighter and way more fun. She restored my love for gymnastics and was always a sounding board. Thankful I made it to DC to see her in her element