Birth date: Dec 23, 1976 Death date: Dec 16, 2025
Captain Kyle Malcolm of the Great Lakes, age 48, of Clay Twp., passed away unexpectedly on December 16, 2025. He was born on December 23rd, 1976 to David and the late Sandy Malcolm. Kyle married the love of his life, Katherine Mir Read Obituary
Fly high Kyle. You will truly be missed by so many. I will think of you when I look out at our beautiful river. You are one of our many angels now. Rest in Peace leave the stormy seas to us now ❤️🙏🏻
Fly high Kyle. You will truly be missed by so many. You are one of our many angels now. I will think of you when I look out at our beautiful river. Rest in Peace leave the stormy seas to us now ❤️🙏🏻
A friend of mine introduced me to Kyle about 20 years ago at a garage party. Go figure. I have so many fond memories of Kyle; playing euchre, playing ping pong, watching football games, watching NASCAR Races, fish fry’s, cooking chili on the wood burning stove, New Years Eve Parties, and you probably guessed, it all took place in 1 or another garage.
He was always fixing, creating, or making something. He loved to barter with friend’s and one time I gave him a 2 place stand up Jet Ski trailer (for something he did for me that I don’t remember now.) and he converted it into his welding trailer. I don’t think there was anything Kyle couldn’t do when he put his mind to it.
He was a wonderful father and spent time with his kids out on the water playing in the Bay and teaching them to pilot the boat. I still remember the picture he sent me the first time “Mr. Clint” piloted his fishing boat with an outboard motor. He was probably only 5 years old and he looked just like his father. That serious look that says; I’m in control of steering this boat and paying attention to my surroundings.
Kyle was an excellent dog trainer. I was amazed when he showed me how Blue could do addition. Kyle would ask him; how much is 2 + 2 and Blue would bark 4 times. He used to tell Blue he was under arrest and Blue would stand up and put his front paws against the wall.
When he bought his first Tug Boat, he didn’t have a place to store it. I talked to my brother who lived in Port Huron and had a good size driveway where he could keep it until he started working on it. Not sure what happened to that Tug but I assume he sold it to upgrade to the Cisco.
When Kyle’s mother passed away in 2014 Kyle kind of adopted me as his “step mom”. When he needed a mother’s listening ear, he would come and talk to me. And then there were the times when I thought he was out of line and I would just give him my “motherly” advice without him asking!
When Kyle was working for his father at Malcolm Marine he mentioned that he needed to get his welding certification. I introduced him to a friend of mine who wrote the American Welding Society (AWS) Standards. My friend spent a few evenings working with Kyle to perfect his welds. He passed his test plates the first time he submitted them and became an AWS Certified Welder.
In 2020 when he was first getting his business really going, I hired him to tear down my dilapidated wood seawall and put in a steel seawall. He did a fantastic job and the wall is straight as an arrow. Many people ask me who put it in because it was such a high quality job.
We lost touch for awhile after that with COVID and our lives just going in different directions, until last year when he invited me to go out on Cisco for a Trump Parade. I will always treasure that boat ride and memory the most. I felt so proud of him and how far he’d come from the partying young man I first met, to a father of 2, to a husband, to getting divorced, to a husband and father of another son, to a Christian man, to a successful business man with a Bad Ass Tug Boat.
Rest In Peace Captain Kyle and I’ll see you when God decides it’s my time to come home.
Dee Miller
Rest ~ In ~ Peace Captain Kyle
