Brian Wayne Vance
March 24, 1966 ~ April 12, 2017
Brian Wayne Vance, 51, of Mooresville, passed away unexpectedly while at work on Wednesday, April 12, 2017. Born March 24, 1966 in Madison, Indiana, Brian was the son of the late Bill Vance and Betty Jean (Sallee) Vance. On May 31, 1986 at Open Door Baptist Church in Deputy, Indiana, Brian was united in marriage to his loving wife, Nancy (Buxton) Vance.
Born and raised in Madison, Indiana he was a 1984 graduate of Madison Consolidated High School where he enjoyed playing basketball, football, and singing and playing music in a band. After high school, Brian attended Ball State University. He was a proud graduate of ITT Technical Institute with an associate’s degree in electrical engineering and later, received his bachelor's degree in business management from Indiana Wesleyan University.
Hardworking, passionate about his work, and an excellent provider for his family, Brian worked at UPS from 1985 until 1987. In 1987 he began a successful 25 year career with PSI/Duke Energy; in 2012 he began running a personal consulting business. In 2013 he started working for Ubisense where he spent 3 years. Brian especially enjoyed working in the utility fields for K & L Excavating where he started working in January of 2017 until this past Wednesday, when Brian was so suddenly taken from this life to Eternal Life on the job, after a hard day of work in the field.
A loving husband and father, he continually put the needs of his family above his own. Always giving of himself to others, Brian was willing to help anyone in their time of need. A man of faith, and compassion, he and his family regularly attended and were members of Gracepoint Church in Whiteland, Indiana. He loved golfing, playing music, skeet shooting, and watching movies.
Along with his father, Bill Vance, Brian is also preceded in death by his brother, Stephen Dale Vance and his brother-in-law, Neil Lyle.
Survivors include his wife of 31 years, Nancy L. Vance; his mother, Betty Jean Vance-Welsh and his step-father, Art Welsh both of North Vernon; three children, Jacob W., Joel M., and Alyson Lea Vance all of Mooresville; two sisters, Patricia Turner (Husband: Billy) of Madison and Pam Lyle of Evansville; many aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews; and a host of friends and colleagues.
Family and friends will gather to celebrate the life of Brian Wayne Vance on Saturday, April 15, 2017 from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.in the chapel at Carlisle- Branson Funeral Service & Crematory in Mooresville, Indiana. The funeral service will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday in the funeral home. Brian will be laid to rest near his father at 1:00 p.m. on Easter Sunday, April 16, 2017 at Dupont Cemetery in Dupont, Indiana. You may visit www.CarlisleBranson.com where you may sign the online guest registry, leave a personal message for Brian's family, and view his Life Tribute video.
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Prayers and love to the Vance family. I’m sorry for your loss. He will be missed. Love, Mark.
prayers for the vance family he will be missed
Nancy and family, we’ve not met except through the many conversations I’ve share with Brian while working together at Ubisense. He loved and continues to love you all deeply. I will miss my friend, as I know will you, but I have joy in knowing he was first among us to meet our YHWH. May the peace of our Lord and Messiah comfort you over the coming months.
To Brian’s Family and Friends,
I’d like to express my sincere condolences and heartfelt sympathy in this time of deep sadness.
It was an absolute pleasure working with Brian at Ubisense and especially having him on my team last year. I learned from him every time we talked and I have to admit I was humbled by his experience, insights and ability to communicate sophisticated Utility Industry ideas and scenarios in a way that even I could understand! I will never forget our time together nor his contributions to the Ubisense software products and customer successes.
Brian often talked about Nancy and his gratitude and love for her was clear and powerful, We agreed that we both “married up” and we had a great laugh about that. He felt that he was a very lucky guy. He also talked about his “kids” and how proud he was of them. And of course we talked about music and guitars, a shared passion for both of us. We likely talked about guitars as much or even more than anything else!
I already missed Brian a great deal and assumed we’d meet up again some time soon, so now his memory is all the more important to me. I’m a better person because I knew Brian – his professionalism, generosity and kindness rubbed off on me… thank God.
Very warm regards and deepest sympathy,
Scott Casey
Denver, CO
To the Vance family, we are so sorry for your loss. We have known your family since Joel and Jaxon were in preschool. My heart goes out to each of you! You are a strong and close family and will get through this with the help of God, family and friends. Prayers to you and we are here if you need anything.
God bless,
Jennifer, Brent, Brett, Jaxon and Avery Hoffman
Brian was such a wonderful person with such a contagious smile and kind soul. I was lucky to be friends with him in high school and on into college at Ball State. I’m so sorry Nancy for your and your family’s immeasurable loss. The world’s incredible loss of Brian will surely be Heaven’s gain.
It’s been many years but Brian will always big a big part of our “glory days!”
Nancy, I’m so sorry for you and your family’s loss. He was always a great guy. You all will be in our thoughts and prayers!
Brian was a really nice guy. His daughter and my daughter are friends. I consider Brian and his wife Nancy great friends.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you all. May God grant you peace and strength during this difficult time. I have many fond childhood memories of Brian and his family.
In an era of popular interest in prince and princess of somewhere else… our own family tree has been richly blessed by the love, purity and nobility of character demonstrated amidst our humble branches. Brian will be greatly missed. Our thoughts and prayers will continue to be with Nancy and family.
Brian was like a brother to me he has been in my life since I was about 10 years old. Brian is the one who taught me to drive, we played golf together when I was younger and he took me on my first trip to the see the ocean. He was as good as gold to my sis and their children. I never worried about them he seen that they never wanted for anything. Brain was a wonderful husband and father this lost is a real tragedy for are family from now on there will be a big hole in our family tree!