David Tilley, son of Larry Tilley and Carol Hoss Tilley of Essex, Missouri was born October 18, 1976 in Dexter, Missouri and departed this life at the St. Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri on June 22, 2017 at the age 40.

Mr. Tilley was a foreman at Craftsman Trailers in Sikeston. He enjoyed four-wheeler riding and was a dirt track racing enthusiast.

David was currently engaged to his long time girl friend, Melissa Wright.  She survives him.

Besides his fiancé and parents, he is survived by one daughter, Nickol and her husband Greg Fowler of Qulin, Missouri; by one son, Preston Tilley of Essex, Missouri; by two brothers, Larry Tilley Jr and his wife Brittany of Essex, Missouri and Ronnie Tilley and his wife Carla of Dexter, Missouri; by three step children, Madalyn, Bradley, and Maggie Wright, and by two nephews, Hudson and Jordan Tilley.

Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home on Sunday, June 25, 2017 from 4:00 until 8:00 P.M. 

Funeral services will then be conducted on Monday, June 26, 2017 at 11:00 A.M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Dexter with Rev. Kyle Carter officiating. 

Interment will follow in the New Essex Cemetery in Essex, Missouri.

In lieu of flowers the family requests all memorials be made to the account that has been set up at the First Midwest Bank in Dexter, under the names of his children, Preston W. Tilley or Frances N. Fowler.