You have a friend / Patricia Bach (new friend )Read >>
You have a friend / Patricia Bach (new friend )
I just stumbled on this website. I don't believe in accidents or coincidence. I too have lost a son companion confidante and soul mate. My son Jason passed away last year at the age of 29. I totally feel your pain grief and sadness. Brandon looked to be a loving gentle soul .... just as my son. My heart goes out to you and all who knew Brandon. We are all sentenced to a life of unending grief. People expect you to go forward and you DO have to. But easier said than done. Experiencing the loss of a child somehow makes it simpler to look to your own passing .... knowing that you'll be reunited again. Jason struggled with life for the past 5 years with a bi-polar disorder and anxiety disorder. Through his pain he taught me to pray have faith and live with courage. Little did I know the Lord was preparing me for this devastating loss. Yes Jason's passing in the end has blessed me with unbelievable faith. I trust God fully knowing that it is by His order that you are called home. Please know I will pray for all who loved Brandon and all whom he loved. Mei the Grace of God bless you always. Keep the faith!
Ready to run your race in 2010! / Nick Homesley (Friend from LR )Read >>
Ready to run your race in 2010! / Nick Homesley (Friend from LR )
I have been thinking of BK a lot since Tyler and I have been talking about running the 5K in Mei. I think about BK every fall around this time and November. I look forward to running the race and sharing conversation about Brandon and all the great times we had. I miss you and pray for you and your family often!
Traditions/ Suzy Stratton (a stranger praying for Brandon and his family. )Read >>
Traditions/ Suzy Stratton (a stranger praying for Brandon and his family. )
My heart goes out to Brandon and his family. I also want to thank Brandon's Mom for sharing the Christmas Tree ornament tradition. 12 years ago my husband was killed in a car accident. He left me behind to raise his 2 beautiful daughters by myself. They were 6 and 9. The accident happened 2 days before Thanksgiving. Like you we also started a traditions of buying a christmas ornament for their daddy but we but it on our tree after we wrote daddy and the year. I told my daughters that when they got old enough to move away from home that they would take them with them to put on their own xmas trees. Some people didn't approve of what I was doing but I didn't care. The girls felt closer to their dad and that was all that mattered. God bless you all.
It's Been Awhile / Emily Killingsworth (Baby sister )Read >>
It's Been Awhile / Emily Killingsworth (Baby sister )
Hey Bubby,
Sorry I have not come to visit your site in awhile. It doesn't mean that I don't think of you everyday, because I do. I guess life just gets in the way sometimes. So your little nephew is 2 months today!! Can you believe that!! He's growing up so fast. And hes so advanced for his age. I'll tell you what, he's looking more and more like you. He has your big beautiful blue eyes (which I hope won't change). But most of all he has your beautiful smile. Not as beautiful as yours but I do see you when he smiles and it brings me such joy and brings back some many memories of you. One of Katies friends said that when someone in your family passes, the next born will resemble them a lot. And I beleive him. Because he does. When we hold Nathan, he is always looking up. and I know he is looking at you, his Guardian Angel. I know he sees you in his dreams and I know he knows who you are. Gosh Brandon, you would have been such a good uncle. And I know that you and Shannon would have already had a child of your own. You would have been the best dad!!
I still can't believe it has been 4 years. Sometimes it feels like it was yesterday when God took you and yet it feels like it's been longer than 4 years. The holidays are so hard for so many of us. It just doesn't feel the same anymore and I don't know if it will ever have that "holiday" feeling again. I can see that mom has had a very hard time the last month or so. It breaks my heart when I see her hurting cause I know that I can't fix it. But I know that you are with her eveyday and helping her through this time. I know you are with all of us during this time. So I know you know dad is having surgery on the 19th of this month. Just be with him ok? And I know you will. Let him know it will be ok and that he will be fine through all of it.
One of the main reasons I am wirtting you is to talk to you about papaw. The last couple of times mom has talked to him, he has mentioned that he wants to come to Florida on more time but he just cant drive through South Carolina. Mom has told me that he has tried to reach out to her the last couple of phone calls as well, but mom said she just can't. I never really thought about how papaw has dealt with your passing and maybe because he has kept it to himself but I know he was pretty torn up when you left us. I want to ask you to spend a little extra time with him right now. Let him know that you are with him everyday and let him know it's ok to hurt like he does. Talk to him, visit him in his dreams. He needs you as much we we do.
I'm going to wrap up this "novel" now ;) I just want you to know that no one has forgotten you. You are still such a big part of our lives. I have one more favor to ask of you. Maybe it's because you think I'm doing ok, but I have not seen you in my dreams in a very very long time. I miss seeing you there. Maybe when you have a little extra time in your busy schedule :) will you come visit me? I would like to see one of your smiles again. I miss it. I miss you. I love you Brandon so much!
I think of you often / Jane Grafer (Elwell) (Brandi's Mom )Read >>
I think of you often / Jane Grafer (Elwell) (Brandi's Mom )
Although I don't express it outwardly, I think of you often. You came into our family (coming over in your pajamas to watch t.v. wearing your big smile) and have never left. It is painful for me...so I can't even imagine how your sisters and parents feel, as well as all your beloved friends. I do know how hard it is for Brandi to be without you. I also know you are looking down on all of us and smiling that big, huge smile. You had an impact on so many people. Jane Close
Thinking Of You Always / Janeane Bricker (Bonded by love for our precious sons )
I just wanted to stop by and let you know I was thinking about you and your family. I hope everyone is doing ok. You will always be loved, missed and remembered until the day we meet you in heaven. Love Janeane
Happy 25th Birthday, Brandon, my son, my Angel / Mom Read >>
Happy 25th Birthday, Brandon, my son, my Angel / Mom
BRANDON
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Happy Birthday Angel
25 years ago was one of the happiest days of my life...I became your mom. What an amazing experience. You were so beautiful, so cuddly. Fast forward 25 years and I sit here at my computer, thinking back to that day and smiling through my tears. Oh, how I miss you, Angel. No one knows how much. I miss your weekly and sometimes daily phone calls. I miss your teasing me about my cooking, I miss your silliness, I miss your tenderness. I just miss you!!!
I know that this grieving thing is a process but I honestly thought I had a hold on it but I guess I don't. This past year has been especially tough on me and I really don't know why except to think that perhaps I tried to keep myself busy, too busy, to really feel the pain and I just couldn't keep up the pace. So now I am dealing with your passing just a little more deeply...but maybe not. Maybe it is just a process and this is just a step in time. I just don't know. Only time will tell but know that I will never let you down, Brandon. Never let your life be forgotten by our family and friends and though we don't hear from them often anymore, I know that they miss you too and they continue to love you and for that, it makes me smile.
The scholarship is growing, Brandon, and I am so proud of that. We have worked hard on it and I always will. This is the 4th recipient...can you believe it has been 4 years? So many great young people have been nominated for it and it has been so hard to chose which one each year. I wish I could give each one a scholarship in your honor for they all deserve it. This year was especially going to be hard for the candidates are so good and then Dad and I received the essays and we were reading them and it was getting harder and harder to choose until I read the last one. Why was that one last? I truely believe everything happens for a reason...I believe that with my whole heart and so I believe that last essay was put in that order for a reason...that reason being I had to read them all and know they were all good but that the last one was the GREAT one...the one I would chose above all the others. So, though this year had probably the best candidates to choose from, only one would stand out above all the rest. You know which one, don't you? I am so very pleased with our choice and I know you are too.
Well, today is your birthday, Angel. How will I celebrate it? Dad and I have a little something in mind so look for it, okay? 25 years ago...Wow!!! What an amazing man you would be right now. You would be married...Shannon and you had already chosen the date and I honestly feel that you would probably be a dad or well on the way to being one now. What an amazing dad you would have been. I wonder what you would have named your babies. Cosmo???(a little inside joke, right?)
I am sad today...that is understandable...but I also feel a peace about me today and I just know it is your Angel wings wrapped around me, keeping me safe, keeping me smiling, giving me the faith and the love I need to handle this gut-wrenching grief I am feeling. So on your birthday, Angel, your 25th birthday...you are giving me a gift. I am not surprised. That is the kind of man you are.
It's been awhile.... / Brandi Grafer (high school sweetheart )Read >>
It's been awhile.... / Brandi Grafer (high school sweetheart )
So, it's been awhile since I've been on the site. Not for any reason in particular, maybe because it just got too hard. Yet, I am tonight and that's because of last night. Last night I had a dream and you were there. It hasn't happened in awhile and I'm not sure why, but it doesn't really matter. You were there like you used to be with that big goofy ass smile and I couldn't help it. I rememeber the dream like it was frames in a movie. You were sitting right next to me and smiled. I smiled and laughed and didn't know what to do. I knew that you weren't here anymore, but I was so happy to see you. You had this look in your eye like you knew exactly what I was thinking without me having to say a word. (Which by the way NEVER happened in our relationship lol). Anyway, I "walked" away (in the dream) to compose myself and I came back and you were sitting on a bench with your back to me.....Then I woke up. Tears dripping and the feeling of crying that I was doing during my sleep, I couldn't help biut smile just like I did in my dream. You came to me like you used to do all the time. Maybe b/c I've talked to Em and you know I am there for her, maybe b/c work has been horrible and I needed your support, maybe b/c you thought it had been "awhile" too. Not sure, but doesn't matter. The joy and excitement that I felt when I saw you, even in just a dream, was enough to bring me back to where I need to be.
So, thank you once again you jerk... for doing the right thing, even though I HATED that! :) You always know when someone is at their breaking point and when to give them support. I wish I could be more like you, even though I can only see you in my dreams.
So congratulations Bubby on becoming an uncle! Oh how I wish you were here right now. You know you would have been the first person I would have told just like I was the first person you told when you wanted to propose to Shannon. You know I dreamt of this day and yet have feared this day for 3 and a half years. The day where I would have children of my own. I feared this day becasue they wouldn't have an uncle to hug or kiss. They wouldn't have an uncle to teach them how to play sports cause Lord knows you were the best at every sport. They wouldn't have an uncle to teach them the things that I just cant. I don't even know where to start on telling my baby about you. What if I leave out really important stuff that I just can't remember or have forgotten?? I'm so excited to have the baby but yet so scared. You were suppose to be here when I have children, when I graduate from college, when I get engaged, when I get married. You were suppose to be here for all of this. And I know so many people say it was your time to go, but sometimes I just don't feel that way one bit. You were so young and so full of life. You were really going places in your life. You were one of those men that took advantage of every second of every day. You were the definition of a Go-Getter. I think God made a mistake when he took you away from us. He must have gotten you mixed up with someone else. He had to have. I just want my baby to know you. I mean really really know you. I want the baby to know the ends and outs of their uncle and I'm just so afraid I won't know how to do this. So you have to help me okay? you have to somehow help me remember the little things that I might have forgotten. Cause I won't be able to do this on my own. And I know I'll have Katie and Mom and Dad to help me with this. But you're the person I need the most when telling them about their uncle. So You have to promise me that you'll help me remember. And I will promise you that ALL of my children will know their uncle. They will know everything they possibly could know about you.
Okay so I just have one more thing to say before I end this...well a very important question to ask you. If Sean and I have a little boy, is it alright if I name him after you??? I mean I know he'll have so much to live up to cause you were and still are one of a kind. But I would love to name the baby after you, in your honor. And do you think mom and dad would be okay with that too??Okay, well you think about it and let me know somehow if that will be all right with you.
Even though you are no longer here with us in person, I know you are always with us in spirt, heart and mind. And I know you will be there the day the baby is born. And I pray that whether it is a boy or a girl, that they somehow look like you just a little. Anyways, I love you Brandon more that anyone could possibly know. I love you more than I love anyone else. I love you more than life itself. You're were and are the hero, the role model, the man in my life. And even though it was short, it was and will always be the best years of my life because I got to spend them with you. Good night Bubby. Oh and please give mama morrison, mama killingsworth and papa killingsworth hugs and kisses for me.
Love always and forever your biggest fan, your baby sis
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Thinking of Your Family / Laurie Wegner (friend at LRC )Read >>
Thinking of Your Family / Laurie Wegner (friend at LRC )
Hi Mr. and Mrs. K,
My name is Laurie Wegner and I work in Admissions at LRC. For the past two weeks, I have been leading prospective faculty candidates on campus tours. Each time I walk out the front door of the Admissions Office, I think of your Brandon when I see the plaque with his name on it. It causes me to smile as I remember him sitting in "his" chair in our office waiting to take his group on tour. I'd walk by him and say, "What's 'up, BK" and he'd smile his famous smile and say "Nothin' much!" Your son was quite a young man and I wanted you to know that every time I have walked past his memorial plaque, I have thought of you and the sense of loss we are all still feeling without him. Please know that I share in the loss of "our" BK. Thank you for loaning him to us for such a short time.
Thinking Of You / Janeane Bricker (I lost my Brandon Lee too )
Thinking of you Brandon and your family always. You will always be loved and missed until we are all together again. www.brandon-bricker.memory-of.com Close
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Missing you & loving you always and forever / Mom Read >>
Missing you & loving you always and forever / Mom
3 years today my "happy" life ended and I miss you so much, more than anyone could ever know. However, I know you are happy, you are watching over those of us who knew and loved you dearly and anxiously awaiting the day when we get the privilege to enter Heaven's doors.
Baby, I never knew a young man with more compassion, more love, and yes, more fun than you. I am so very proud to tell people all about you and though I will always have tears in my eyes they are the tears of a very proud mama.
On this day and forever more I will remember you I will miss you and I will always, always cherish you.
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