In Memory of Brett Michael Huser

Friends and family of Brett Michael Huser collect trash from a section of Rogers Ranch Road in San Antonio.

On February 6th, 2004, Brett Michael Huser and another young man, Jon Luke Brooks, were killed on Loop 1604 in San Antonio when the vehicle they were riding in crossed the median and struck an oncoming pickup truck. Exactly one year later, on Sunday February 6th, 2005, friends and family joined together again to honor Brett and Jon’s memory by clearing trash from a section of Rogers Ranch Road near the site of the fatal accident. With the support of Brett's former employer, Starbucks, clean-up participants raised approximately $1,000 for the Asian tsunami relief effort.

Brett's mother, Desiree Huser, writes "We are going to try and adopt the same highway for another year. We plan to schedule highway cleanups every three months and are really excited about doing this for another year. It will give us all an opportunity to continue to keep Brett's memories alive while doing something nice for others. The money that we raise doing these clean-ups goes to different charities. We were able to send two children to summer camp through the Y.M.C.A., helped raise money to build a playground for abused children, and raised funds for three benches at our son Ty's elementry school playground. We hope this next year will be a continued success."


A Channel 12 news crew interviewed Mrs. Huser during the clean-up. In the year since Brett's passing, there have been many deaths on Loop 1604 under similar circumstances where a car has crossed the grass median into oncoming traffic. In fact, 37 year-old Jose Gutierrez was killed on the very day of the cleanup on the section of highway that has become known as the "Deathloop."