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Mount Vernon High School Celebrates Student's Life

MVHS will hold a Celebration of Life ceremony in memory of Joshua Guice.

 

This evening Mount Vernon High School will celebrate the life of Joshua Guice, 16, a former student who died from injuries sustained in a house fire at Fort Belvoir on Dec. 5.

Joshua Tyler Guice was born on Feb. 15, 1995, in Aniston, Ala. He was raised in Quinlan, Texas, where he attended Ford High School before moving to Fort Belvoir this past summer. He came to Fort Belvoir to help his sister take care of his nephew while she was recovering from surgery. Guice started his junior year at MVHS in September. 

Josh's interests included skateboarding and art, including photography, according to his mother, Ursula Blevins.

In addition to his mother, Josh is survived by his father Steve Dothard Smith; sisters Janie Lynn Smith, Alicia Smith, and Amber Cornelia Guice; stepfather Eddie Lee Blevins; and brother-in-law Ramsey Abbott.

The ceremony will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesday in Bratton Hall. For more information, please call (703) 619-3100.

Related Topics: Fort Belvoir, Joshua Guice, and Mount Vernon High School

Rachel Carter

10:19 am on Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Our prayers go out to this family. What a terrible tragedy. Does anyone know how the fire started?

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James Cullum

12:02 pm on Wednesday, December 14, 2011

I heard from a Belvoir spokesman that it was a transformer fire

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Angelina

9:12 pm on Wednesday, December 14, 2011

I feel so sorry everyone listen up pray a lot pray unti something divine happens to u and go to the ceremony and feel sad like as if some one that u love and could give up your life just for that poor boy pray I say

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David Sloane

5:18 pm on Friday, December 7, 2012

A year later we still mourn for Josh and such a senseless loss.

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