Ryan Drew Sparks, 31, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, passed away in Tulsa on December 10, 2023.

Ryan was born on October 29, 1992, to Stephanie Sparks in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After Ryan graduated from Edison High School in 2012, he went on to play baseball at Richland University in Richardson, Texas.

Ryan started his company, Midtown Landscaping, with a couple of buddies, where he found his passion for hard work, and his perfectionist tendencies began to show themselves. There wasn't a job he couldn't do.

In 2019, Ryan met the love of his life, Autumn Bauer. Ryan and Autumn went on to have two beautiful twin girls, Lenny and Logan. Who he loved with his whole heart.

Ryan was extremely passionate about baseball and had an unbelievable love for animals. His black lab, Toby, was his right-hand man, and they went everywhere together. Ryan was most well known for being loyal and helping others. He would drop anything to help anyone who needed him. To know him was to love him. He was a charismatic and goofy guy who fearlessly loved his family.

Ryan is survived by his mother, Stephanie Sparks, the love of his life, Autumn Bauer, his twin daughters, Lenny and Logan Sparks, his younger sister, Nicole Tolson, his older brother, Tyler Sparks, his nephew, Hunter Allen, his grandparents, Jim and Christine VanderLind, and his brother-in-law, Marshall Tolson.

Services will be held at Asbury Church in Mason Chapel on December 14, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to a college fund the family has set up for his two daughters, Lenny and Logan < https://www.gofundme.com/f/ryan-sparks >. He never intended to leave them.