Please pray for my family...

[Dawn Marshall]

Last night around 10 pm...my brother was killed in a car accident. He was only 27 years old. My parents are both devasted.....

My brother has an almost 3 yr old dd...he won't get to see her third birthday.....

[KEA's Mom]

I am so so sorry. I will pray for all of you. I'm so sorry.

[MrsSpencer]

So sorry..I'll be praying.

[Vicki]

Dawn . . .

This is so incredibly sad!!! I am so sorry . . . I am very close to my brothers and I would be devasted to lose any of them . . . your heart must be breaking. And your parents. . . my heart hurts for them especially . . .
you all have my thoughts and prayers . . .
Please call me if you want to cry, yell, share his story or whatever . . .
206-399-8233
HUGS
Vicki

[Marcus Momma]

i am so sorry! I will be praying for you.

[Stacy Holley]

Oh my gosh. I am so terribly sorry. You all are in my thoughts and prayers.

[MamaBethany]

Dear Dawn and family,
This is an unthinkable tragedy. I know you and you family can barely see right now for grief and shock....please know we'll be praying for you and wish we could comfort you more....please keep in touch

[motherofthree]

I am so sorry, Dawn, my heart is breaking for you. Losing a sibling is very difficult, and in such a tragic way. Prayers for your and your family's peace and strength during this most difficult time.

Beth

[CrystalW]

I'm so sorry. I will be praying for your family.

[macsquad33]

Dawn, I am at a loss for words right now. I can tell you that I too lost a brother tragically when he was 28 years old. The 3rd anniversary of his death is coming soon. This was 4 months before I was to be married. I can pray for you and your family. I know that the shock factor is so incredible right now, but soon the sadness will set in. Know that I have walked a mile in your shoes...if there is anything that I can do for you other than pray, please do not hesitate to ask.

[Dawn Marshall]

Thank you all so much. This has been such a trying time for my family. This is the 2nd child my parents have had to bury. My sister died at 3months due to sids...this just sucks.

[linda]

I'm thinking of you and praying for your family! All my thoughts for you all.

[marylouise]

Dawn, I am so sorry for the loss of your brother. I know how hard it can be. My brother died when he was 21.
Keeping you and your family in my prayers.
Huge hugs

[Austin's Momma]

It does suck...My little sister, Rachel, died in a car accident about three years ago. Not a day has gone by that I haven't thought about her and missed her tremendously. I'm soooo sorry for your loss!

I've been into quotes lately: "When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure."

I know you and your family will hold on to all of the memories you have with your brother...his daughter will need them. Again, I'm sorry for your loss and will be thinking about you all.

[Tasha Nicholls]

Dawn, I'm so sorry. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

[efswsjuly17]

I am terribly sorry for the loss of your brother. I will be thinking of and praying for you and your whole family. If you need anything let me know.

Brandy

[JayJay]

I am so very sorry Dawn. I hope that the healing thoughts and prayers of all of these people and myself will reach out and comfort your family during this very hard time. When my daughter died I couldn't sleep. I knew people were praying for us, and that is what got me to sleep eventually.

Huge hugs coming your way. I'll light a candle for him. XXXXX

[JenniferBrown]

Oh Dawn,

I'm so sorry. My prayers and thoughts are with your family and his little daughter during this time.

Just like Vicki said, you are more than welcome to call me if you need to talk. My number is in find a photog. :)

Hugs,
Jen

[Christine Barrack]

My Friend,
I don't have the words to express how very sorry I am. Know that we are all here for you and your family, today and always. If there is anything I can do you know how to contact me (no matter what time it is). If you need I can come to Ohio to offer any support.
Praying for you, your family and his precious daughter that He comforts you.
Blessings,
Christine

[tstracener]

I am so sorry...praying for you and your family.

[HAINAngel2000]

Oh Dawn I have no words that can possible express that could take the pain you are feeling right now. I couldn't begin to imagine how you must feel. I am deeply sorry for your loss and of course I will be lifting your family in prayer. I am just so sorry.

[jessbilley]

Dawn I'm so terribly sorry to hear this devastating news. You and your family will be in our prayers. Big hugs.

[Laceys mama]

I am so sorry for your loss. You and your family will be in my thoughts and prayers.
Melody
Lacey Darlene's Momma

[Kerry]

I am so sorry for your loss for you and your family. My grandmother had two children which one was my father. They both died at young ages 34 and 50. I can't imagine how she lives on and both of her children are gone. She does have her grandchildren and I think she is thankful for that. Life is not fair at times and my prayers go out to your family at this difficult time.Again I am so sorry for you to lose your brother and your parents to loose another child.

Kerry
Mother of Olivia,Sarah,Lane and Heavenly Angel Mallory

[motherofthree]

Dawn, Just want to let you know that you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers today.

Beth

[Dawn Marshall]

Thank you all for your prayers and kind words and thoughts. This has been such a draining day. Today was the viewing. We stood for 4 hours in a receiving line. He was so loved. It made my heart glad and ache all at the same time.

Here is a picture of my brother and his baby girl...

[Christine Barrack]

Hugs, prayer and more hugs for you all. Thank you for sharing this time with us. What a cutie his daughter is.
Christine

[JenniferBrown]

Big hugs for you (along with some bengay for your tired legs). I've been praying for your family. I can't imagine what you guys are going through.
Thanks for sharing a photo of him with his baby girl.... she's beautiful!

[MrsSpencer]

such a beautiful little girl..when my bf died from childhood, I wondered as you probably do how much his daughter will remember. We keep his memory alive for her, and she knows my friend, her daddy, almost as well as she would if he was alive. Hugs to you, it's not fair when they're taken without warning.

[motherofthree]

He's such a handsome guy...and he looks like a loving father, too. You look quite a bit alike! It sounds like a very trying day, very emotional. I hope you get some rest and are able to brace yourself up for what more is to come. Thank you so much for sharing his picture with us. You are in my prayers.

Beth

[Vicki]

Dawn . . .

I love that shot of you brother . . . big ole smile on his face, loving life, loving that little girl . . . and love doesn't even know death and it's WAY bigger than death . . .
Everything that he is can be found in every memory that you all have of him, everything that he is can be found in all of you who will share it with his little girl . . .
My Dad (who has since passed) was half Native American and this is one of my favorite readings about death (sorry it's kind of long but still a good read):

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly on summer’s night. It is a pinch of dust tossed to the wind. It is the buffalo’s breath on a cold day. It is the single beat of a pulsar from the out limits of the Milky Way. It is an instant, the flicker of a sparrow’s wing.
“Only the Sky and the Earth will last long” the old man sang. Only the Sky and Earth and the Sun, Moon and the starts will be here when all else I gone.
You and me? In the greater Totality that is the Universe, in the great Circle of Life that extends beyond or capacity to fully imagine, we are interrelated to all things that ever were and will ever be.
In the infinite wholeness that always was, without beginning and without end, we share this life, blessed with a conscious awareness, blessed with the magic of this human form in whatever condition which it exists, for a fleeting moment.
In the time it takes star to shoot across the sky on a clear night, or a sudden gust of air to sweep across the sands of a windswept shore, a human life span comes and goes in the eternal expanse of spinning galaxies and black holes, of countless stars and celestial seas of space and light, inexplicable and unimaginable within this Great Hoyt Mystery. This is our brief reality.
It never quite feels that we have enough time on this earth, but it is all we have and it may be all we really need. For, in the end, we continue to live on in the minds and hearts of the living and in the Oneness of all things. While life allows us the individual experience on this earth, death is the transition to Totality and the stars.
It has been said that the old ones never doubted the immortal nature of spirit, that indefinable something that animates us and gives us life, yet neither did they care to speculate on the state of that spirit in a future afterlife. They did not debate or contemplate the existence of a heaven or as reward or punishment for human behavior. They did not choose to consider reincarnation or the attainment of Nirvana, though they knew that in a universe that is boundless with potential and limitless with possibilities, it is ALL conceivable.
Yet they did pass down to us a great sense of spiritual contentment, for they believed that the spirit that the Great Mystery breathed into a human form returns to the One who gave it, and at death this spirit can hear our prayers and can remain among the living for a while for the consolation of family and friends. It is said that once the spirit is freed from the body, it exists in all of nature.
What a wonderful idea, knowing that spirit of the one we loved who has died dwells everywhere – and that it can be felt from time to time in the warmth of a summer breeze, or heard in the melody of a mockingbird’s song, or seen in the beauty of a strand of pearls.
“Death?” the old man sang. “There is no death, only a change of worlds.”