Mitchell Freeman

Mitchell Keith Freeman, 28, of Corvallis, Oregon passed away unexpectedly in his home on June 4, 2025. Mitchell was born June 19, 1996 in Salt Lake City, Utah shortly after sunset on one of the shortest nights of the year. Mitchell moved to Canby, Oregon at age 2 with his younger brother and his parents. Between the ages of 7-12, Mitchell went camping with his Cub/Boy Scout troops and his family over 50 times in all seasons. Mitchell played football and baseball in middle school, and by high school he developed his love for chemistry, and made friends that he remained close with for the rest of his life. Mitchell was an animal lover who always had time for pets or cuddles with the cats and dogs in his life. From a young age he sought to understand the motivations of those around him and tried to understand the reasoning behind everything he encountered. From childhood to adulthood, Mitchell enjoyed snowboarding - he was a part of the snowboarding team in high school and he purchased season tickets to Mt. Hood Meadows or Timberline most years. Mitchell enjoyed traveling with his mother and brother to Hawaii, Italy, Alaska and many other trips closer to home. He enrolled in Oregon State University as a Chemical Engineering student. In June 2025, he joined his brother and his father as OSU alumni and engineers. In the summer of 2024, he participated in an internship for a semiconductor manufacturing plant in Gresham, Oregon and he was accepted for a 2025 internship with a diamond manufacturing company in Portland, OR. As a student he excelled in his classes, worked as a tutor, and participated in many group projects - including a group that won the 2025 Process Engineering competition within the ChemE department at OSU. His family saw him as inquisitive, intelligent, kind, considerate, and gentle; his friends saw him as witty, reckless, smart, loyal; his peers saw him as fastidious, attentive, capable, helpful; and his professors and mentors saw him as engaged, driven, and impressive. He was a skilled writer and communicator with a passion for crafting the message he wanted to convey in any technical or creative project. Mitchell is survived by his mother, Lucy Cooper; his father, Richard Keith Freeman and wife, April; his brother William Sean Freeman; his paternal grandmother, Kathy Long Haadtvedt; along with many cousins, aunts, uncles and friends. In lieu of flowers, a donation to the Oregon Humane Society in memory of Mitchell Keith Freeman is welcome.

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Mitchell Freeman

June 19, 1996 - June 4, 2025