Michael A. Warner, 27

MILFORD - Michael A. Warner, of Milford, tragically lost his life on Saturday, July 25, 2009, in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in a jet ski accident. He was 27. He was born April 14, 1982, in Seaford, the son of James R. Warner of Bridgeville, and Mary Ann Willoughby Warner of New York. He was a graduate of Sussex Tech in Georgetown, class of 2000. He attended Culinary Art School in York, Pa., and had worked for five years as chef at Michele's at Dover Downs. Michael was an outdoors person who loved hunting, fishing and telling tales to friends and family on what he had seen or caught. Besides his parents, he is survived by maternal grandparents, Ormond and Shirley Willoughby of Bridgeville; paternal grandparents, Betty and James Richard Warner of Greenwood; one sister, Jennifer Warner of Georgetown; two nephews; and his companion, Christina Haswell and her son, Nathaniel Garrison of Milford. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Friday, July 31, at the Framptom Funeral Home in Federalsburg, Md., with Rev. Karen Bongard officiating. Interment will follow in Bloomery Cemetery near Federalsburg. Friends may call from noon to 2 p.m. on Friday. To help defray his funeral expenses contributions may be made to the Framptom Funeral Home, 216 N. Main St., Federalsburg, MD 21632.