Memorials

This website and the pages to follow are dedicated in memory of our foundation’s Nursing Director, Kathleen Brown, Connie Hart, Carol Orr, Shelly Himes-Graffeo, Kate Frost, Julie Rose, Moses Malachi Malloy Jiggetts, Allan Williams, Robert Carling, Esther (Cookie) Vizcarrondo, Dan Steppe, Renee Therese Pilakis, Carin Johnson, Justice Wayne Cole, Steve Metz  and others that have lost their fight through Still’s Disease. They will forever remain in our hearts.

Passages

When a person passes from this life, into another~
there becomes a tear in time~
No longer does the person’s spirit hold light and dark at bay~
Suddenly, the light and shadow become one, and~
the spirit is no more~
For us, left on this plane, we sense the empty ~
space, and know of the spirit’s passing~

Each time their countenance enters our minds,~
each moment we spend recalling a smile, a voice, their walk~
For those precious moments, the void fills with their spirits~
and they walk the earth once more, in our minds~
Our hearts, and always our souls~
We who mark their passing are spared no pain~
the emptiness is all around us, we wait for a step, a voice ,a sliver of laughter

And when it does not come, we ache a little more~
There are no words to make the pain abate, only~
day turning to night and day again~
When the edges of the pain grow dull with time~
I ask that all of you remember your loved one today,~
and some of your tomorrows~
And allow those spirits to walk among us~
even for a little while~

Cat Triller/08

Please take a moment to read the individual memorial pages listed below.