Happy Thanksgiving Amanda♥  / Stacey Barrett

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Honoring Amanda  / Kellie Nicholson (Family Friend )
I appreciate your gratitude so very much but helping keep Amanda's memory alive and helping her family heal is the greatest reward.  It is my honor.  She was so special! Close

Calcutta visitor that uncovered Amanda's story  / Jeff Messerly (none)

To the family of Amanda

 

While travelling on business to Calcutta I noticed the hillside with Amanda's tribute. It made me think of my three children 1916 and 2. I worry about them daily. I am thankful for their continued health. While in Tim Horton's ironically I met Amanda's Grandmother. She told me of the circumstances.

I am so sorry for your loss. I am privledged to come across this wonderful young woman's story and her family. May her light continue to shine for you all.

 

JT Messerly...Canonsburg Pa

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Halloween without You!  / MOM
Another sad holiday without my baby girl! Life goes on and I hate it! The pain and sorrow I feel is often overwhelming! I think back  to when u were a little girl...dressing up as so many cute little things mostly made by Aunt Barb! You and Brandi almost always matched... cats pumpkins tweety birds trolls genies! I miss those times when you guys were all little...I would go back to those times in an instant if possible and live them all over again!  Nothing in this world is the same or ever will be the same again for me! I hate that you're are missing life...everything we prepared you for...all of your hopes and dreams...its just not fair!! I will never understand why God would take such young people full of love and life away from this world before they have a chance to live!! The thought of you never leaves my mind...I love you and miss you with all my heart!! Happy Halloween Baby!!!!!!! Close

Happy Early Hall0ween beautiful..  / Kye Newlun (friend)

Happy Early Hall0ween

 Amanda<3

 

i miss y0u beautiful...

bringing y0u a gift s00n h0pe u like it..

 

kye...

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Thank you Kellie Nicholson!!!!  / Aunt Jane
I wanted to tell everyone about a very special person and what they are doing for Amanda. As you all know after Amandas accident Bev and I wanted to do something to honor Amanda and keep her memory alive!! And with the help of our great friends and community we have done so!! We are grateful to each and everyone of you!!! I recently joined the facebook craze and was on one night adding friends when I thought about an old friend from East Junior...Kellie Nicholson. I had seen her mother about a week before this and thought I would send her a request to view Amandas Memorial Web-site. I wasnt sure she knew about Amandas accident but I knew Gellie and Denise (Kellies mother and sister) did so I figured Kellie probably did too. Well to my surprise I had a response right away! Kellie had visited Amandas site and put a condolence on...actually two condolences. She said she was so touched by Amanda and what we were doing to honor her life and memory that she wanted to help somehow!!! She lives in California and has her own businesses. One of her businesses is a company called Cards with a Heart. It sells cards and calendars with some of the proceeds donated to different charities!! Its her way to help different charities and now people like us!! She is going to donate 20% of the proceeds to Amandas scholarship fund!!! It is still in the making but she is working to get it off the ground ..I think she is actually waiting for Bev and I to pick a picture of Amanda and what we want the cards to say. We will be posting Kellie's websites and info about her company for all to see. I am also going to post Kellie's e-mail address or someway for you to send a thank you to her for what she is doing for Amanda. I know how grateful Bev and I are about this! Lets all let Kellie know how thankful we are and how special she is!! Thanks Kellie from the bottom of our hearts!!!
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Happy Halloween  / Noah Morell's Mommy
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This is heart-breaking!  / Kellie Nicholson (Parents' Friend )
I'm so sorry I didn't realize that Amanda is also Scott's daughter and Kelly's neice more friends that I grew up with.  I've been sobbing while I read about Amanda and feel the loss through the eyes of those who loved her so.  You are all in my heart as you cope with this tragedy. Close

My heart is with you all!  / Kellie Nicholson (Mother's Friend )
What a beautiful and touching website! 

I never knew Amanda but I grew up with her mother Beverly and her Aunt Jane. This is a loving beautiful family so I am sure that Amanda was also very special.  She sure was loved!

Reading through the website has broken my heart as I feel the pain that all of you have in your hearts.  I am so sorry you lost your angel. Close

Thinking of you!!  / TINA ADKINS (S.J.'S FRIEND )

Bev

My Heart aches for you...Christian(our 11 year old) is going to be baptized soon. I started thinking back to his accident. I do not know if Sarah ever told you.

Jamie was going to burn trash at our burn pit and was driving his one ton truck to the site. Somehow Christian opened the sliding glass doors and got outside. Jamie did not know he was there. He ran over his baby boy (almost 2yrs. old.). He was in a body cast for 3 months and several splints. The doctors were amazed that he had no internal injuries. He healed and has become very active and loves basketball!!(of course).

I truley love God and I know he is in control.......but I too have doubted him.

I do not know what Gods plan is....and I Can not even imagine your pain............I am praying for you and your family.

 

Love

Tina

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Thinking Ab0ut y0u.  / Kye Newlun (Friend)

Hey Amanda jus thinking ab0ut y0u al0t t0day! Hali l0oked beautiful f0r h0mec0ming didnt she (?) i kn0 u were there with her threw the wh0le dance begining t0 end. y0ur her big sister i kn0 ur l0oking 0ut f0r her up there (guardian angel) . i was l0oking threw halis myspace pictures hali c0uldnt be any prettier jus like y0u beautiful. y0ur m0m is such a nice pers0n she was always very nice t0 me. i seen her at the p0tter game she l0oked very pretty.

well s0rry i did nt write y0u in awhile.

  0ff t0 w0rk. ill tlk t0 y0u s0on amanda marie.

            (*.) miss y0u (*.)

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Thinking of you!  / Lori Buckel

Love
Lori and Megan

 

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Thinking of you ALWAYS!!!!  / Stacey Barrett

Hey Sweetie..Just wanted to stop by and tell you that I'm thinking of you everyday..I still get goosebumps going to calcutta or even looking at your pictures..Stay close we all miss you and love you more than ever..I love you Amanda..

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Homecoming! / ♥MOM♥

Hey Sweetie Life will never be the same without you...I can't believe it will be a year and a half tomorrow...18 long lonely months wihtout my baby girl.  How could life turn out to be sooooo sad and cruel for us... what did we ever do to deserve something soooo horrible? THere are sooo many people in this crazy world that could have taken your place...I'll never understand any of this nightmare! I miss you more than ever...you're on my mind constantly and you'll be in my heart forever!!! I love you Chance and Hali with all my heart...you guys are my life!!!!!

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Blessed by an angel  / Laura Boley

Hey Amanda

I just had a strange incident happen on Thrusday and thought I'd share it :) I was at the Longhorn in Boardman where I work to get my scheldule for the following week. Basically I had been having an awful day. I was stressed out with school and working my jobs and I was also afaird to go in the Longhorn to get my scheldule. The last time I had worked a woman was so mean to me I told her off!!

But anyways I was talking to the host when she noticed the bracelet I wear for you. She pulled another one out of the draw and said how she had found it randomly. I was so suprised but happy at the same time. She told me she saw a girl come in wearing a shirt with the same name on the bracelet. It made me suprised to randomly find your bracelet at my work escpecially when I was stressed out and wanted nothing more to do than crawl up and sleep. It made me happy because soooooooo many people will always support you and your scholarship!! It makes me happy to find something that has your name on it espec. when I had my bad day!!

Though I will always wish that the day of your accident never occured or I wish I could have helped prevent it from happening I hope you know I am always thinking of you!!! I feel that you have touched soooo many people and I am one of them!!!

<3

Laura

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*Hey Babe..  / Missie Gaskill

Amanda Marie

Sorry I haven't been on here in so long. The dogs chewed up another computer wire and I have to come to my mom's house to get on the internet because my phone won't let me get on your page. Says it's to large to load! :(

God how I miss you. I really hate this. Life really sucks knowing that any day could be your last day. Knowing that God took such an amazing person. What was he thinking? It doesn't make sense to me. I don't think that it ever will. When there are people who murder others that have outlived you. This world is crazy..

Well Jazzo had the puppies! They will be 7 weeks old on Monday! Its nuts how fast the time has flown. They get their shots tomorrow and then next week they are ready to leave. I will be so sad to see them go but I will be glad when I don't have to clean up after them anymore! :) I know that you would have loved them! They were so little when they were born. I still have to bottle feed the little girl. You would have been proud of Joey! A few weeks ago Jazmin sat on the little girl and killed her! Joey to the rescue! He gave her mouth-to-mouth and she came back to life! It amazed me! And I am supposed to be the nurse here and I was in such a state of shock he took her and saved her! I know that if you were still here you would always be at my house to see those puppies! lol..

We were with Chance and Courtney last Saturday for her brothers' dirtbike race. It kills me everytime I see Chance. I just think of how hard it was for me to loose you. And knowing that the pain I feel is no where close to what he feels like. Going home and you not being there. His new truck is sweet. It's funny we were driving behind them through Lisbon and everyone that saw his truck broke their necks staring at it. Then Chance started making that horn go off! It was something else. You would have lost it laughing at it!..

It is also so hard for me to be at work. Seeing people dying all of the time and their family's not coming to see them. I could not even imagine. I just wonder if they realize that one day they will regret not coming. Regret all of the time that they could have spent with them and now it is gone. Watching people die.. watching them take their last breathe is so difficult. I just stare at them. Feeling my heart break knowing that in a short time they will be gone. Knowing that they are with me one moment and with you the next. And especially if they die alone. Knowing that the only people there are us. Sometimes we go in more than normal and be sure to talk to them (because they say hearing is the last thing to go) and let them know that they are not alone. It is such a hard job to do. Life is just to precious and some people just don't notice that!

But babygirl I love you so much. Just know that I think of you every single day. Mostly every mintue of every day! I hope you watch over your Mom Chance Hali Jane and everyone else that loves and cares for you. We miss you so much and love you so much! Until the day I see you again.. I'll remember you always. And think of you always..*

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Great Mom  / Sandy Pasco Jackson (Family Friend )
Bev don't EVER feel like a failure.  You are a wonderful mother.  I rememer a picnic that Vickie had several years ago.  Amanda probably was about 9 or 10.  I believe your dad was roasting corn  I remember noting how great your kids acted.  I remember thinking "Wow Bev is such a great Mom".  Not that you wouldn't be it's just that it was SO completely noticable.   They listened to you.  They did what you said.  Don't ever doubt yourself.  You've done a wonderful job raising your babies.  They value and respect you for being there for them.  This crazy unbelievable event that's changed all of our lives---I don't know why it happened--but just know that Amanda adored and respected you.  It was obvious.  And Hali and Chance too :) Close

Sleepless Nights  / MOM♥

Wow I can almost guess the time when I wake up in the middle of the night...usually about 3:30 or very close to that. I hate that empty feeling of knowing ur not at home in bed where you belong at that hour. I miss being able to talk to you...I valued your thoughts and opinion so much! I know you see whats going on and it has to hurt you so much...you were too sweet and special of a person to have this kind of low class stuff surround your passing in any way! Starting their happy life isn't as important as destroying ours...I guess. You'd think it would be the opposite...I know it would be for me. Send me the strength I need to overcome all of this and survive for both Chance and Hali...keeping our home...where all ur memories are is really important and I need to not give up or give in like I sometimes feel like doing...so send me that will and determination you always had! Help me make better choices lol...sometimes I just need a way to get away from all this pain...I miss you soo unbelievably much. I'm soooo sorry I let this happen...I should have made better decisions in my life anything different that could have made your life turn out differently. What a thing to fail at...losing a child is the ultimate failure...what was I thinking?? I'm sooo sorry babe! I lOVE AND MISS YOU SO MUCH! 

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Always remembering your precious angel Amanda  / Terri♥Mom 2. Angel Brent Bowden

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Dreamin of you...  / Brandi Brewer (Cousin)
So the past few nights you've been in my dreams expect one night you weren't & pap was then the very next night which was last night you were in my dream again & I was telling you about dreaming about Pap being here & he was sittin there wacthing baby Kelsey & you told me that was because he was really there with him. I miss you so much I've been having a really hard time lately with all this not that its not always hard to deal with the fact you're gone, just lately the days have been harder than others. I think it all started right before I had the baby. I just think of how unfair it is that you're missing out on all of this when you should of been right by my side. That kills me! I hate it! I wish so much we could turn back the clock & make everything right again. I really miss you so much, stay close. Thank you for the dreams.... they mean so much. I love you babygirl! <3 Close