Ryan J McPhee Relation to Deceased: Dad I can’t tell you how proud I was to see your sister wearing her number 11 Hilton Heat jersey this past weekend. I know you were watching her too. I miss watching you play. Those we love remain with us for love itself lives on, and cherished memories never fade because a loved one’s gone. Those we love can never be more than a thought apart, far as long as there is memory, they’ll live on in the heart.

Rich McPhee Relation to Deceased: Dad Ryan, Wednesday March 25th will be 1,000 days without you. We have thought about you everyone of those days. Sometimes we laugh when we think about the things you did, even some of the things that did not make us laugh when you did them. Sometimes we cry when we think of you and sometimes we do both. We wonder what school would be like for you, and if Shannon would be able to ride her bike if you were here to help her. We know you would have enjoyed watching Matthew’s college hockey team when he played up here. There are so many things we missed doing with you these past 1,000 days. We miss you very much. Love – Mom, Dad & Shannon I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one, I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun. Of happy memories that I leave when life is done.

Rich McPhee Relation to Deceased: Dad Ryan – We can not believe that you have been gone for 5 years now. Everyday we talk about you and how much we miss you. The candle in the window will always be on so that you can see we are thinking of you. We miss you. Love – Mom, Dad & Shannon I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one, I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun. Of happy memories that I leave when life is done.

Marcia L McPhee Relation to Deceased: Grandmother Ryan: On Sunday, your 14th birthday, we will remember from our hearts all our special memories of you we have kept there. We will shed some tears for the young man you would have become and that we will never get to see but we will be thankful for the years we were together. Happy Birthday! We love you lots and lots. Grandma and Grandpa McPhee The butterfly emerges from its silken shell- Reborn, it arises, no longer bound to earth. Free at last, the butterfly glides to heights unknown before. So do our loved ones find a beautiful release as, earthbound no more, they leave our sight and joyfully rise to a garden of matchless beauty, a place of light and peace. -Evelyn Phillips

Marcia L McPhee Relation to Deceased: Grandmother Ryan: It has been three years since you left us and not a day goes by that we don’t miss you and think about you. You will forever be in our hearts. We love you lots and lots! Grandma and Grandpa McPhee I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one, I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun. Of happy memories that I leave when life is done.

Jill McPhee Relation to Deceased: Mom Dear Ryan, Today it’s been a long four years since you left us. Although June 29th will always be a day of sadness for those of us you left behind, for you, you were free of illness, sadness and pain. That is what continues to pull us through our pain. Your freedom to do and go whatever you want. Maybe you are watching the World Cup Soccer, maybe watching over us at home. Wherever you are, you are in our hearts. Love, Mom, Dad and Shannon The butterfly emerges from its silken shell- Reborn, it arises, no longer bound to earth. Free at last, the butterfly glides to heights unknown before. So do our loved ones find a beautiful release as, earthbound no more, they leave our sight and joyfully rise to a garden of matchless beauty, a place of light and peace. -Evelyn Phillips

Deb and Kelly Bramlett Relation to Deceased: Aunt and Uncle Ryan: Missing you today like we do everyday but today it seems harder and we feel our loss of you deeper. We hold you close in our hearts and our thoughts. With all our love…..

Deb and Kelly Bramlett Relation to Deceased: Aunt and Uncle Ryan: As we approach your 14th birthday we miss you more each day. We stand in awe of the number of people whose lives you touched including ours. We miss you each day, we think about you everyday and smile knowing you are watching over all of us each day. Sunday morning we will look to heaven with a smile on our face and remember you with all our love! We love you! The celebration of life, shared in the beginning, and again, in the end. Yet we forget to celebrate it, in every moment we live. Time, days, years, go on, but are we alive? Alive and do not know it, sleeping in the world and dead to the life we are to live. To celebrate all life, the sparrow who sang in the morning, and died in the night, why do we not celebrate its life? To know thyself is to know you are alive – to give, to love, to seek truth, beauty, and suffer pain. In life as it is meant to be, pain is forgotten, and strength is all that’s left to be gained in the moment by moment celebration of life. By Deborah Peabody