Brett Colton Mercer was born in Nanaimo on Aug. 31, 1987, to loving parents who eventually had five children. He died Aug. 19, 2017, of an accidental drug overdose, alone in a motel room in Hope, where he had recently landed a job with an oil and gas firm. Guardiero learned of his death two days later, after she was unable to contact him. She had just finished hiking Mount Horne with her daughter when she got a phone call from her other son urging her to get home immediately.  Read the rest of this article at The Vancouver Sun…