RIGBY — A Rigby man remembered for his selfless life was able to bless others through organ donation.

Noel Rios (real name Titus Freeman) passed away on the night of October 19, 2025 at the age of 21. He had been riding dirt bikes since he was three years old when he was involved in a collision with a truck half a mile from his home in Rigby.

“He most likely died on impact,” Freeman’s aunt, Janice Bell, told EastIdahoNews.com. “He was wearing a helmet and all his riding gear, but he could not be saved.”

Freeman celebrated his 21st birthday on October 13, a few days before the accident. Bell said her nephew’s best friend, who is in his late 60s, told him that since Freeman turned 21, he needed to get a “big boy license.”

“He took Friday off to go get his new driver’s license…and he thought (and said to his mom), ‘I’m an adult now, I should be a donor.’ He wasn’t a donor before,” Bell explained. “When he went there (to renew his license), he became a donor. It was a Friday and he was killed on a Sunday.”

After the accident, Freeman was rushed to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, where his family was told he would not survive. The hospital learned he was a donor and he was taken to the intensive care unit and placed on life support.

On Oct. 22, Freeman, who was declared brain dead, was wheeled into the operating room in a wheelchair as family, friends, colleagues and hospital staff lined the hallways during a donor honor walk.

Freeman’s decision to become a donor allowed him to save the lives of seven others.

“His heart went to another 21-year-old boy from Utah,” Bell said, adding that he hopes the boy continues to “achieve great things.” “Not much is known about his other illnesses, such as his kidneys and lungs.”

Freeman not only helped others as a donor, but he did so throughout his life by giving generously and serving those around him.

Freeman was working at Knife River Co. in Idaho Falls at the time of his death. Bell said he led a crew of men twice his age and would show up at 5 a.m. to start everyone’s machines and make sure everyone was warm.

“He always gave everyone on board lunch money (and gas money),” she said. “When he died, they all gave the money back to the front loader that was his machine. It was full of money.”

Born in Caldwell, Freeman has one older sister and one younger sister. Ms Bell said Ms Freeman had a difficult childhood but overcame it. At the age of 19, he decided to buy a house in Rigby for his mother.

“She not only loved him. Every parent has a favorite. I don’t care what they say. If they say otherwise, they’re lying. But Titus, too, the reason he was her favorite was also because he loved her the most,” Bell said.

Freeman was a talented baseball player who enjoyed disc golf and fishing. He was rebuilding snowmobiles when he was 12 years old and more recently rebuilding truck engines. He ran the truck on the day of the accident, but never had a chance to drive it.

“He was a very good kid, never in trouble in his life,” Bell said. “He never went out drinking. He was in bed by 8 or 9 o’clock. We call him the old man of the family. He was an anomaly.”

Ms Bell said losing her nephew was “the worst thing” but she was proud of the life he was able to save.

“You don’t have to be religious, you can be religious, but God — if there is a God — God did this. This must have been part of God’s plan… it was part of some plan,” she said. “I think he had plans for my beautiful and kind nephew.”

Freeman will be honored this summer when his name is added to the Celebration of Life monument in Utah. The monument is a memorial and a tribute to both the living and the dead who donated organs, tissues and eyes for transplantation and research in mountain regions.