Joshua Edward Bix, 21, Hopkins, Missouri, died Saturday, October 29, 2011, as a result of an accident near Hopkins, Missouri.

Josh was born January 23, 1990, in Maryville, Missouri to Larry Edward and Melody LuAnn Burgess Bix.

A 2008 graduate of North Nodaway R-VI High School, Josh also received, in 2009, a diploma in Business Networking Systems from Southwest Community College. He worked in the shipping department at Kawasaki in Maryville.

Josh was a member of the Hopkins First Christian Church where he was a Junior Deacon, the National Honor Society, and the National Society of High School Scholars. Josh played both basketball and football in high school and was a member of the FFA.

Preceding him in death were his maternal grandparents Gene and Pearl Burgess and an uncle Michael Burgess.

Survivors include his parents, Larry and Melody Bix, brother Cody Bix, paternal grandparents Glenn and Sharon Bix, all of Hopkins; paternal great-grandmother Charlene Brunk, Savannah, Missouri; aunts and uncles: Joe and Marianne Brown, Hopkins, Marilyn and Dick Schuetz, Versailles, Missouri; Glenda and Gordon Craven, Grant City, Missouri and Jerime and Amber Bix, Sheridan, Missouri and several cousins.

Visitation is 5:00-8:00 pm, Tuesday, November 1, 2011, at the First Christian Church, Hopkins.

Funeral Services will be 2:00 pm, Wednesday, November 2, also at the First Christian Church, Hopkins, with burial in the Hopkins Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the North Nodaway Foundation in Memory of Josh Bix.