Miles Andrew Liner, biological engineering junior, was killed in a car accident last week.
His vehicle was hit by a drunk driver in a head-on collision Thursday, according to the Morgan City Daily Review.
Liner served the Alpha Gamma chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha as external vice president, and other members said he stood for all of the fraternity’s values.
“He was a man I wanted to be,” said Liner’s pledge brother Dakota Meyer. “You can’t say anybody’s perfect, but he was damn good.”
Pledge brother Zach Jongema said Liner lived out Pi Kappa Alpha’s virtues “100 percent.”
“He was an outgoing guy, friendly, honest, kind — pretty much your ideal person,” Jongema said.
The Pi Kappa Alpha men last saw Liner on Wednesday night as they celebrated the initiation of their first fall 2012 pledge class.
Meyer said the chapter members are supporting one another, and that is a great example to the new initiates of the close bond held among fraternity brothers. Meyer said losing Liner is like losing a biological brother he’s known his entire life, though he first met Liner during recruitment in fall 2010.
“It’s amazing what those new guys can see what a fraternity can do to you. … It’s good that we have that closeness,” Meyer said. “We have each other to lean on.”
Liner enjoyed fishing and boating, Jongema said.
The brothers would often tease Liner because his favorite movie was “The Lion King” and his favorite artist was Taylor Swift, Jongema said with a smirk.
Jongema laughed and said he found Swift’s new album “Red,” which came out on Liner’s 21st birthday last week, in Liner’s truck.
Liner was an LSU fan who bled purple and gold, Jongema said.
“He loved LSU. He hated Alabama,” he said.
Aside from watching LSU football, pledge brother Josh Crow said Liner loved playing sports. Liner ran an interception for a touchdown during an intramural game last Sunday.
“I felt like he was the best of all of us in our pledge class,” Crow said. “I can’t think of anything cross he said with anyone.”
According to The Daily Review’s article, Liner loved his high school sweetheart, Taylor Adams. The two were homecoming king and queen of Berwick High School.
“He was exceptional to his girlfriend,” Meyer said. “He would never stray from being honest to her. He was loyal.”
“I realized he’s not going to be with us, but it was OK because he had made it. He had a straight shot to heaven,” Meyer said. “He walked a great life down here, but I think the miracles he’s going to make from up there, and the amount of support we’re going to get from him for the rest of our lives … is going to go so far.”
Liner is survived by his parents, Mike and Lynn Hover Liner; girlfriend Taylor Adams and dozens of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity brothers.
Because he was an organ donor, eight people’s lives were helped by his donation, his friends said.
Visitation will be held tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. at Hargrave Funeral Home in Morgan City. A second visitation will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Stephen Catholic Church in Berwick. Mass will immediately follow.
“He was just one of the best people. He always had a smile on his face,” Crow said. “He stood for everything that was good and all of our values as a fraternity.”
