MEMORIAL LEAVES

There is a tree that stands alone
With branches bending low,
Holding on to Autumn leaves.
Never wanting to let go.

The branches love the Autumn leaves
And embrace September's winds.
Laughing in the sunshine
Thinking this will never end.

Hold on you golden Autumn leaves
And orange and red and brown.
Please don't loose the branch's grip
And tumble to the ground.

But sometimes there's a sudden gust
And the branch is unaware
That the wind has blown so harsh
And sent their leaf into the air.

The branch thought it was holding tight
But the wind was much too strong
And took away the branch's grip
Making everything so wrong.

And sometimes it's a gentle breeze
That takes Autumn leaves away.
The branches watch them tumble down
And wonder why the leaves can't stay.

The barren tree stands all alone.
Empty twigs whisper "goodbye".
A wind lifts up the fallen leaves
And sends them floating through the sky.

The leaves gather above the clouds
Waiting for their special branch
To meet them at the "tree of life"
Where "forever" has a chance.

So listen when the wind blows,
As it howls through the trees.
You can hear the lonesome sound
Of a branch that lost it's leaves.

© 2007 - Christine Ross

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"LUKE" LUCAS CHRISTOPHER ROSS 21 years

"DANNY" DANIEL SCOTT FORRESTER 30 Years

"BEAU" JASON BEAU MORGAN 23 Years

JACOB KENNETH DAVIS 13 years

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ARLYN MARIA BEAL 18 Years

"BRAD" BRADLEY LOUIS CORDIAL 17 years

CADE DAWSON WRIGHT 3 years

JAYDEN EARL ELLEFSON 1 year 1 month

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RICKY JAMES DAVIS, JR. 24 years

"LUKE" LUCAS JAMES FLOREN 21 years

MICHAEL JOHN SHULTZ 8 months

"BECKY JO" REBECCA JO SESTER 15 years

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JOEY MARSHALL WHITEMAN 21 years

"ALEX" ALEXANDER ZACHARY MATTHEW SALADINO 4 years

AVRA MARIE JOHNSON RAMSAY 21 Years

"JOEY" JOSEPH DAVID SORENSON 21 years

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"JOSH" JOSHUA SAMUEL HUGHES 21 years

"ALEX" ALEXANDER CHARLES GILL 2 months

"JOSH" JOSHUA PAUL COPE 21 years

JUSTIN PIERCE 12 years

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RICKY AARON PHILLIPS 22 years

RAYLENE ALICIA GUTIERREZ 23 years

BRIAN JOSEPH PARKER 27 years

TIMOTHY PATRICK PARKER 26 years

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DEREK SEAN DYSON 19 years

"BUTCH" WILLIAM EDWARD HERBERT 21 years

"KATH" KATHRYN-MARY IRENE HERBERT 11 years

"DONNIE" DONALD BERNARD HERBERT 9 years

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STEPHEN MATTHEW WILSON 20 1/2 years

AARON JOSEPH GOLDEN

DOUGLAS RICHARD MALONE MILLER 15 years

WENDY NICOLE DICKENS MCCAMMON 21 years

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DONALD WARREN BARKER 33 years

GEOFFREY PHILIP JAMES EDWARDS 18 years

HANNAH ISABELLA SNYDER 3 1/2 years

TYLER BILLY TSCHESCHLOG 14 years

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"TONY" ANTHONY RYAN MCLEMORE 31 years

TONY TREVHERON ELLWOOD 37 years

PETER RAYMOND ELLWOOD 33 years

"PAULIE" PAUL RYAN SHANNO 9 1/2 years

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PAUL JOHN LAFAVER 27 years

MPUNDU HILDA KASUBA 15 years

COREY CHRISTOPHER JAMES 20 years

MICHELLE MARIE JAMES 22 years

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"CLINT" CLINTON TERRY MILAM 10 years

CHRISTOPHER RONALD FALLER 7 years

CARTER GERALD SANDQUIST 3 days

BRANDON WESLEY SGAGGERO 29 years

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ANTHONY PAUL WODZINSKI 15 years

AMANDA CHRISTINE WARNOCK 13 years

AARON SHOULDERS 18 years

"JESSII" JESSICA KASSANDRA HAFFER 14 years

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"TAB" TABATHA LEANN WOOTEN 20 years

VERNON EUGENE LIPSEY 18 years

"WAYNE" BRADFORD WAYNE WELLS, JR. 42 years

ALLEN DALE BORING, JR. 32 years

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"ANGIE" ANGELA RENEE KRESGE 21 Years

LEE WILLIAM HARRIS 33 years

MEGAN MARIE BAKER 21 years

DANIELLE MARIE PLOURDE 11 years

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CORY GENE PILAT 21 years

CORRINA JENNELL PARSLOW 19 years

TREVOR THOMAS CRAIG 25 years

SARAH JEAN DAVIDSON 3 years 11 months

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MATTHEW JOHN BROWN 21 years

"MACK" KENNETH MACK HILLERY CREAMER 17 years

KRISTA KATHLEEN KELLY 28 years

KANDA MICHELLE JACOBS 30 years

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"JOSH" JOSHUA ENVIL 26 years

JASON PAUL HILTON 24 years

ETHAN MICHAEL LYNN KILPATRICK 4 1/2 years

DENISE MARIE MCCORMICK 40 years

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"DAMO" DAMIAN REID CARVER 19 years

CHRISTOPHER DALE BOOY 21 years

CHAD DAMON KITCHEN 25 years

BRANDON SCOTT COPE 17 years

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AMY LYNN ALSOFROM 25 years

JUSTIN MICHAEL ROBERTSON 17 years

KIRK MATTHEW BALTHAZOR 17 years

STEPHEN JARED EBANKS 17 years

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SKYLAR EDWARD AARVAG 10 months

CHAD ERIC DAY 30 years

BRANDON TYLER BESHADA 25 years

"KRISS" KRISSTOFFER JEFFERSON 20 years

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"OLYA" OLESYA VITALIEVNA NOVIKOVA 22 months

RODNEY ALLEN NISBET 38 years

GALEN WAYNE MASTERSON 11 years

ERIC SUTTON SKINNER 19 years

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CRAIG BRIAN COUFAL 16 years

"CHRIS" CHRISTOPHER B. HOSLER 23 years

CAROL RAE SMART 18 years

CANDICE KEIM 19 years

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JODY LAWRENCE GONYOU 30 years

"JOEY" JOSEPH ZACHARY TAYLOR 4 years

PATRICK ZACHARIAH WAFSTET

COURTNEY MARIE WAFSTET

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DEREK GEIBE 20 years

LAUREN RENEE BOLLES 16 years

SETH NILES CROMER 5 years

FAITH ANN MCINTIRE 4 1/2 months

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CHAD JEFFREY NORRIS 20 yeart

"ALLEN" PETER ALLEN ASENCIO, JR. 36 years

"ANNIE" ANNE MARIE BERND 24 years

GILLES MICHAEL MOREAU 16 years

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"BOBBIE" ROBERT J. MCCARTHY IV 19 years

CARL TAYLOR 1 year 6 days

DANIEL VINCENT STAIB 23 years

"DEBBIE" DEBORAH JEAN FREITAS DAUGHRATY 42 years

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GARRETT DANIEL STAIB 1 hour

PRISCILLA ANN FREITAS 1 year 4 days

"JOEY" JOSEPH CHRETIEN JR. 25 years

JOHN TAYLOR LOMON 17 years

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JACE ALEXANDER GIKAS 6 months

TREVOR MARK ORITZ 23 years

JOHN WILLIAM JONES

"ADAM" SGT. ADAM FIOCK 26 years

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TRACY LEE COX 30 years

ALEXANDRA VICTORIA RENTFRO 8 years

TAYLOR RAE SIMPSON

AMANDA LYNN COX 16 years

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STEVEN VINCENT MIRELES 18 years

ASHLEY NIAMH MCCAULEY 13 years

SHERRIE REANNA MORELAND 15 years

BRETT ANTHONY GINDER 18 years

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"SAM" SAMUEL SCOTT GREER 21 years

CARA LEE PARKS BURAS

"ROBBIE" ROBERT HAMPTON SMITH 19 years

JUSTIN MICHAEL EVANS 17 years

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CORLISE DAWN LEHMANN 27 years

MISTY (ANGEL) TRANTHAM 15 years

CRAIG BALDRIDGE 31 years

DANIEL BRUCE CONLEY 23 years

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MICHAEL DONNELLY BUTKA 16 years

ENOCENCIO KINTIA GRAVES 7 years

"GARY" WILLIAM (Little Gary) GARY LOWDER, JR. 26 years

MATTHEW KEITH MULLIS 19 years

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"GRANT" JERRY GRANT LEWIS 26 years

KENZIE RAYANN GOLDEN - RODEN

HOWARD MCDANIEL 31 years

JAJUAN MARQUIS JEFFERSON

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JAMIE LEE RICHARDSON 21 years

JASON LEE HAFFORD 22 years

JASON PAUL HARRILL 22 years

JEREMY DILLON WILLIAMS 18 years

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JESSICA TAYLOR 13years

JOHN ROBERT SPRINGER 40 years

KAYLA MARIE CHRISTIAN 16 years

LISA FAYE BESSIRE

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MATTHEW COMFORT 15 years

HAYDEN ALAN ADAMS 37 days

MATTHEW "JORDAN" THOMPSON 29 years

GARETT WAYNE CLARKSON 27 years

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JAMIE MARILYN VITELLO

MINA MICHELLE ALVA 9 years

CURTIS RICHARD OLINGER 15 years

ORAN DANIEL JONES 19 years

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RAYMOND DOUGLAS KOTERBA 32 years

CORWIN JAMES FARMER 19 years

RYAN MICHAEL HOOK 21 years

CHRISTINE MARIE KLEIN 27 years

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JASON SCOTT GRIFFITH 24 years

SHAWN PRESTON REGO 15 years

BUCKLEY M. ABOUKOURA 19 years

STEPHANIE DAWN BARRAGY 37 years

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JAMES AARON GUREVICH 17 years

BRANDON CALVIN KAUT

TATYANA LORIANN CIRKSENA 14 months

JARVIS MCCORMICK

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ANGEL CRYSTAL PLANA 13 years

TONYA LYNN HORTON 18 years

ALYSSA ESTEVES 24 years

TRAVIS REX BARRENTINE 18 years

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AIMEE LYNN PLUMMER 20 years

LUKE DANIEL ROACH 6 HOURS

GREGORY SCOTT ROACH 8 YEARS

JACOB ANDREW REX SLUDER 17 YEARS

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"MIKEY" MICHAEL SPENCER WILTSIE 12 YEARS

LORENZO IBARRA 7 YEARS

SCOTT RUSSELL VOELKER 22 YEARS

REA NICHOLE KESINGER 18 YEARS

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STEVEN M. BOYD 24 YEARS

ROSS HUNTER WHITE 19 YEARS

JOSEPH E. KELLER 14 YEARS

EMILY LOU MILLER STILLBORN

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LARRY LAFOY FLIPPENCE 41 YEARS

AMANDA NICOLE CURCIO 17 YEARS

KAITLYNN RENE FORET 7 MONTHS

SHERILYN ANNETTE ADAMS 16 YEARS

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ELIZABETH ANN HUDSON 20 YEARS

CERRIDWYN "KERRY" MAIRE URSULA BRIGID ROSEANNE LUJAN 19 YEARS

JOSHUA AARON CADE 14 YEARS

ANGELA MICHELLE LOMENZO (and baby) 19 YEARS

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CHRISTOPHER RYAN SILVA "BUBBA" 18 1/2 YEARS

MATTHEW PAUL TRAVIS COLE 22 YEARS

RICKY DEWAYNE MCCORKLE 20 YEARS

KEEGEN RAY ALLEN 13 YEARS

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ROBERT JAMES DELOSH 24 YEARS

JACKY MICHAEL DELOSH 1 HOUR

WHITNEY CARDIN SHARP 17 YEARS

JONATHAN STEVEN WITTY 16 YEARS

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PAMELA SUE FOUNTAIN 21 YEARS

GERRY GRIFFITH PROVANCE 26 YEARS

STUART TODD 18 YEARS

JILL RILEY 37 YEARS

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BILLY SULLIVAN 19 YEARS

TAMI MARIE WOLFE 20 YEARS

BRIAN EDWARD HINSHAW 32 YEARS

AMANDA ROSE WAINSCOTT 20 YEARS

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ISABEL BRISTOL 17 YEARS

JENNIFER BRISTOL 23 YEARS

RICKEY F. TACKETT, II STILLBORN

JEREMY TODD TACKETT 26 YEARS

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SHELLY LYNN BEAM 32 YEARS

AMANDA NICOLE CURCIO 17 YEARS

"BOBBY" ROBERT DENNIS DIGAN 18 YEARS

MARY CATHERINE DIGAN SILENTLY BORN

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TAMI MARIE WOLFE 20 YEARS

SCOTT M. SCHROEDER 20 YEARS

BRIAN EDWARD HINSHAW 32 YEARS

CORNELIUS MONTREL STABLER 10 YEARS

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MIRANDA TRAVIS YOUNG 23 YEARS

KYLEE JAYNE COMBS SILENTLY BORN

RYAN JAMES MCCARTHY 16 DAYS

JASON KEVIN MCCARTHY 26 YEARS

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TERESA "TRISSIE" FETTER 37 YEARS

KEITH E. COMBS 23 YEARS

DAVID EVERETT KISER 24 YEARS

KATHLEEN NOEL DECKER 18 YEARS

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DOUGLAS WALTER LAMAY 38 YEARS

KAYLIN MARIE MATHEWS 20 YEARS

IAN ARTHUR ATCHISON 12 YRS 4M 8D

ZACHERY TYLER GIBSON 6 YEARS

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AUSTIN GRAHAM CHASE 15 YEARS

CHAD PENDERGRASS 13 YEARS

MICHAEL LEE NEVILS 23 YEARS

"KENNY" KENNETH J. LUTZ 24 YEARS

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JOHN RUSSELL ALBERT GODDARD 22 YEARS

SETH BOWDEN TIDBALL 19 YEARS

PAMELA LYNNE REID 17 YEARS

"JOSH" JOSHUA LEE FRITZ 31 YEARS

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BRANT LEE "TEENSY" ALBERTY 15 YEARS

ROBERT LOUIS (BOBBY) MONTGOMERY 27 YEARS

MICHELLE NICOLE ROYE 29 YEARS

ROBERT "BOB" WILLIAMS 19 YEARS

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MICHAEL MARIO MALUCELLI 18 YEARS

BRIAN WILLIAM MALUCELLI 33 YEARS

JAKE JANKOWSKY SILENTLY BORN

LUCAS JANKOWSKY SILENTLY BORN

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ADAM JAMES JACKSON 33 YEARS

JUSTIN IAN WALKER GAMBRELL 20 YEARS

BRANDI LYNN MITCHELL-EDWARDS 29 YEARS

LLOYD FRANKLIN ROBERTS (DRACUS) 40 YEARS

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JAMES GARY RODGERS II 24 YEARS

KARI ANN RAMSEY 3 MO 2WKS

HAYLEE DANYELLE MAZZELLA 4 1/2 YEARS

BRIAN SCOTT DAVIS 20 YEARS

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ADAM JAROD DELONG 18 1/2 YEARS

JOHN TAYLOR LOMON 17 YEARS

CODY TYLER CLIFTON 18 YEARS

ASHLEY RENEE LYONS/LANDON 18 YEARS

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SEAN GRAY 19 YEARS

REBECCA ERIN KISER 18 YEARS

BRANDON JAMES PETERSON 18 YEARS

LUCAS DEE KLOUZEK 33 YEARS

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JEFFERY ALLEN OLA 35 YEARS

JEFFREY MICHAEL FELIX 27 YEARS

CASSANDRA LEIGH BAKER 23 YEARS

CLISTY RUTH HALL 17 YEARS

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MICHAEL RAY SHELLY 35 YEARS

BRYAN JAY REID 15 YEARS

KATIE MARIE POMIRKO 19 YEARS

SAMUEL WILLIAM RICKMAN JR. 36 YEARS

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ALEXANDER JAMES RANDALL RICKMAN 10 DAYS

MATTHEW A. POTTER 7 YEARS

ALICIA ANN LAWLESS 18 YEARS 4 DAYS

WILLIAM (LIL JOEY) DONALDSON JR. 13 YEARS

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JOSHUA SCOTT JOHNSON 21 YEARS

TINA MARIE MCQUAIG 27 YEARS

MISTY ANGEL TRANTHAM 15 YEARS

CLISTY RUTH HALL 17 YEARS

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ANDREW MARTINEZ (D.J. DREW) 26 YEARS

DANIEL RICKETT II 30 YEARS

TASIA MARIE QUACKENBUSH 16 YEARS

LAUREN ADRIENNE GREEN 21 YEARS

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TRENT MCHARGUE 27 YEARS

HEATHER DAWN CRAWFORD 17 YEARS

ELIZABETH MEAGAN ELMORE 19 YEARS

JOSHUA ALLEN MCINTOSH 16 YEARS

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JOSEPH DIONISIO 23 YEARS

JEFFREY ROBERT YULE 26 YEARS

JOSHUA RICHARD LEE VARGAS 29 YEARS

AARON MATTHEW ORTIZ 19 YEARS

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AARON HEATH HARVEY 19 YEARS

JESSE STEVEN TUCKER 26 YEARS

JASON WAYNE EGGERS JR. 5 DAYS

JAMES VINCENT SCIARRA 44 YEARS

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ELIZABETH LUTTO 27 YEARS

JENNIFER ANNE HOPE SEBRELL SILENTLY BORN

ARYN JO HYMAN SILENTLY BORN

NATHAN LYNN FORD 16 YEARS

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RADOMIR CIRIC 33 YEARS

KASEY LYNNE BRYANT 7 YEARS

MICHELLE MARIE GREEVER 9 YEARS

BRANDI LYNN MITCHELL-EDWARDS 29 YEARS

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JOSEPH ANTHONY SCALISE 18 YEARS

ROB NORTHROP 26 YEARS

ALEJANDRO IGNACIO MATEO SOLTYSIAK 20 YEARS

MICHAEL JAMES SCHRIMPSCHER 29 YEARS

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: Elizabeth Luto years: 27

: Justin Lee Hocker years: 24

: Marisa Lynn Ward years: 25

: Petty Officer 1st Class J. Adam McSween USNavy EODMU~11 years: 26

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: Sarah Ann Johnson stillborn	: Sgt.Peter A. Maginnis,NYPD years: 37	: Shawn Patrick Yahna years: 23

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THE TWO ASPENS

Once there were two aspens
Standing tall against the sky,
Taking in the warmth of breezes
As their leaves just fluttered by.

Then from those two tall aspens
Two more little aspens grew
In a grove there in the forest
Touched by the morning dew.

They gathered in the sunshine.
Then they quenched upon the rain.
Four aspens playing in the wind
Sometime before the winter came.

In the springtime how they glistened.
They had the warmth of summer winds.
Little did the four trees know
This would never come again.

Autumn gave them golden leaves
As they stood so proud and tall
Then suddenly a cold wind blew
And their leaves began to fall.

The wind was blowing violently
With a howling lonesome sound.
Then with an eerie silence
One tree fell to the ground.

The youngest tree lay cold and still
As the sky released the rain.
Then drops of sorrow trickled down
From the three trees that remained.

Raindrops quietly turned to snow,
Just as the barren aspens feared.
Autumn, spring, and summer... gone
And a long, long winter... here.

© 2008 - Christine Ross
In memory of Lucas Christopher Ross 1979 - 2001

"THE TWO ASPENS"
Published in
LIVING WITH LOSS MAGAZINE
Fall 2009, Volume 24 No. 3
Bereavement Publications, Inc.

AUTUMN LEAVES

....by Frank Sinatra

The falling leaves
Drift by the window
The autumn leaves
Of red and gold

I see your lips
The summer kisses
The sunburned hands
I used to hold

Since you went away
The days grow long
And soon I'll hear
Old winter's song

But I miss you most of all
My darling
When autumn leaves
Start to fall

A LONELY SEPTEMBER

.....Plain White T's

I'm sittin' here all by myself
just tryin' to think of something to do
Tryin' to think of something, anything
just to keep me from thinking of you
But you know it's not working out
'cause you're all that's on my mind
One thought of you is all it takes
to leave the rest of the world behind

WAKE ME WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS

.....Green Day

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends

like my fathers come to pass
seven years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends

here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are

as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when september ends

summer has come and passed
the innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends

ring out the bells again
like we did when spring began
wake me up when september ends

here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are

as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when september ends

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends

like my father's come to pass
twenty years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends
wake me up when september ends
wake me up when september ends

SEPTEMBER MORN

.....written by Neil Diamond and Gilbert Becaud

Stay for just a while
Stay, and let me look at you
It's been so long, I hardly knew you
Standing in the door
Stay with me a while
I only wanna talk to you
We've traveled halfway 'round the world
To find ourselves again

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf
is a flower.

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

If winter is slumber and spring is birth,
and summer is life,
then autumn rounds out to be reflection.
It's a time of year when the leaves are down
and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone.
Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year
and it's time to reflect on what's come before.

~ Mitchell Burgess 1992

There is a harmony In autumn,
and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be,
as if it had not been!

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)

Fiery colors begin their yearly conquest of the hills,
propelled by the autumn winds.
Fall is the artist.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata,

Winter is an etching,
spring a watercolor,
summer an oil painting
and autumn a mosaic of them all.

~ Stanley Horowitz

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.

~ John Donne

Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.

~ Emily Dickinson

falling leaves hide the path so quietly

~ John Bailey, "Autumn," a haiku year, 2001

Youth is like spring,
an over praised season
more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes.
Autumn is the mellower season,
and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

~ Samuel Butler

All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings.
Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake,
wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . .
bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

I saw old autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like silence,
listening To silence.

~ Thomas Hood

I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility.
Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time.

~ Robert Browning

Tears, idle tears,
I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair,
Rise in the heart and gather in the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.

~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps-
does anybody know where it was borne?
Yes, there is a rumor
that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud,
and there the smile was first born . . . .

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

~ Longfellow

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