Patrick Brian Kelly, 50, passed away from heart and kidney complications June 20 at home in Heber City, Utah, with wife, Monica, and sons, Tyler and Kyle, at his side.

Kelly, a Burns athletic standout who rose quickly through the ranks of Les Schwab Tires’ managers in Oregon, California, and Washington, shared his devotion to his family with coaching and financing youth sports teams.

He was driven and determined to be the best in his career, but his focus was always to provide a comfortable and stable living for his family. He had unconditional love for and pride in his wife and sons. He always had an open heart and pocket book for youth sports both on a business and personal level.

Growing up in Burns, Kelly excelled at football, basketball, and baseball, but baseball was his favorite and was a special focus in his adult life as a coach.

Once he arrived in Port Townsend as new manager of the Les Schwab Tire Center in 2000, he started coaching Little League as an assistant in 2001 with Bob Madden and Dick Stickney. From there, he went onto coach several teams with many other great dads and coaches until his final season in 2012. During those years, Kelly’s knowledge, quiet determination, and love for the kids produced several excellent baseball teams, athletes who became all-stars and elevated Port Townsend and East Jefferson Little League baseball to a new level.

He was a high school assistant coach from 2010-2011, Port Townsend’s head coach in 2012.

He started coaching baseball, recalled Monica, to spend more time with Tyler and Kyle, both gifted multi-sport athletes. “Because of his love for the game and his ability to connect with kids, coaching was just a natural and perfect fit,” she said.

He coached until a heart condition required him to retire from work and coaching. Kelly was the recipient of two heart transplants, one in 2009 and another in 2010. He suffered kidney failure late in 2012. Earlier that year, the family moved to Utah for a lifestyle change and new start.

First diagnosed with heart troubles in 2008, Kelly was told several times that he would not make it. Quietly determined, he came back time after time, proving doctors wrong. The family noted that his willpower never wavered; it was only when his body gave out that he finally departed.

Kelly was the son of Barbara Urcaregui and John Kelly, born on March 16, 1966, in Burns. He had one brother, Jon. He developed a passion for the outdoors, hunting, fishing, and camping in the region. He took quickly to all three high school sports, graduating from Burns Union High School in 1984.

He spent a year at the Oregon Technical Institute in Klamath Falls, did work with Harney County doing litter patrol, operated a rock crusher, was a ranch hand for Hoyt & Sons, and was a cutter at a moulding mill before he joined the Les Schwab Tire Company. In 1989 at American Moulding and Millworks in Prineville, he met and then later, in January 1990, married Monica. Soon he relocated his family to Burns and started his career at the Les Schwab store there in sales and service.

Tyler was born to the couple in 1990; Kyle in 1995.

Kelly quickly rose through the Schwab ranks. In May 1995, he became assistant manager at the Alturas, Calif. store. In 1997, he became assistant manager of the much larger store in Vancouver, Wash. In 2000, he was promoted to manager of the Port Townsend store, and the couple raised their children there. That’s where Kelly dove into youth sports, donating to many teams and devoting his time to his sons’ sports and baseball.

Kelly is survived by his wife, Monica; sons, Tyler and Kyle, all in Heber, Utah. He is also survived by his mother, Barbara Urcaregui (aka Momma Gooch) of Hines; grandmother, Lorene Kincaid of Hines; brother, Jon Kelly of The Dalles; father, John Kelly; step-mom, Marilyn of Lewiston, Idaho; cousins, Mark Kincaid of Roseburg, and Amy Henderson of Hillsboro; plus six second cousins.

Kelly was preceded in death by his grandfather, Irvin Kincaid; grandparents, Tom and Loretta Kelly; stepfather, Santi Urcaregui; uncle, Dennis Kincaid; aunt, Sue Groen; and best friend, Mikey Robinson.