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Lorraine Warren Obituary

Warren, Lorraine Elizabeth Lorraine Elizabeth Warren, 55, of Austin, Texas, passed away at home on Friday, August 3, 2012. Lorraine (Lori to her friends) was born on December 21, 1956 in Waukegan, Illinois, and was the only child of the late Lillian E. Noonan (nee Kallio) and the late John L. Noonan of Tower Lakes, Illinois. After graduating from Barrington High School, Lorraine attended Illinois State and later graduated from Colorado State University with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. She had met the love of her life in adolescence and for many years preserved his youthful declaration of love scrawled on the wallpaper of her childhood bedroom. Eventually, fate smiled and Lori was overjoyed to receive a proposal to marry that man, move to Texas, and make a new life. Over the years, Lori adopted and rescued many cats and dogs, and she loved them all as if they were her children. Her many friends brought her joy and happiness, and all will miss her jaw-dropping wisecracks and determined pursuit of laughter. During her illness, Lori's bold personality and razor wit endeared her to the doctors, nurses, and many caregivers who treated her during a long struggle to be healthy. Lorraine is survived by her husband of seventeen years, Drew; father-in-law, William; sister-in-law, Holly and her husband Barry and their two children Aaron and Brianna; brother-in-law, Todd and sister-in-law, LeAnne and her husband John. A private service will be held for Lorraine with close friends and family. Lorraine's ashes will be scattered near a lighthouse that she loved in Plum Cove on Cape Ann, Massachusetts at a later date. Contributions in Lorraine's memory can be made to Animal Trustees of Austin, P.O. Box 14542, Austin, TX 78761-4542.

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Published by Highland Park News from Aug. 16 to Aug. 22, 2012.

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LeAnne

August 3, 2022

Together

Drew Warren

November 16, 2017

I can no longer view your obituary Lorraine, I'm so sorry... it's to painful. The house will be up for sale soon... it's time to move on.

Drew Warren

November 8, 2017

If anyone would like to contact me, here is my email and phone number. [email protected] (512) 689-0433. Drew

Jeanette Briggs

August 4, 2017

Drew, I just found out about Lori. I had been trying to get in touch with her last year to let her know that my father, Ray Kallio, passed away. Lori used to keep in touch with my dad and his sisters by phone. Dad was Lillian's cousin. You posted a nice picture of Lillian and Lori. So sorry for your loss!

T.L.O.M.L.

Drew Warren

August 3, 2014

Second anniversary today… and I'm feeling extremely, emotionally angst!!!

If time won't allow us to ever be together again, memories will; and if my eyes can't see you ever again, my heart will never forget you…

Holly Warren-Norman

March 2, 2014

Lori,

Give Barry a hug and lots of comforting thoughts when he gets there. Drew and I miss you and him SO MUCH. This is SO HARD.

Love, Love, Love,
~ Holly

February 28, 2014

My dearest Lorraine,

Please be on the lookout for Barry… he's coming you're way...

Drew

January 18, 2014

Another rough weekend…

I would do anything or give anything to have Lorraine back in my life but I know that will never be.
Most of the time my loneliness just overwhelms me… engulfs me… and then crushes me!!!
I still live my life in despair… hopelessness… depression and not knowing where I'm going in life. I pray for peace of mind but it never comes!!! God help me, please!!!

suzanne Kirk

January 7, 2014

My dear Lori,
The holiday's were the times we would talk the most,seeing who had there holiday stuff up first and if Gary or Drew helped,well we made it through another year and I am still waiting for your call,please call, I miss you so much that doing this is hard to do through so many tears,always in our hearts !!!

LeAnne Warrem

December 21, 2013

For Lori's special day.

December 21, 2013

John and I think of you often Lori, especially today. We miss you, we love you and you will always be with us in our hearts and memories.
Drew we know Lori loved Christmas as much as Mom. We celebrate both of them during this holiday season.

LeAnne & John

Drew

December 21, 2013

To my dearest Lorraine, my best friend and the love of my life,

Today would have been your fifty-seventh birthday.
My life has been changed forever and it will never be the same without you!
You will live forever in my memories and in my heart until I die…

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”
? Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

Drew

December 3, 2013

I'm very, very depressed today… things just don't seem to be going right in this world!!!

“I just realized; it's so lonely being free.”
Unknown

Drew

November 13, 2013

I keep pushing through this haze… until the visualization of your face fades… until my memory of you disappears and dissolves… until the love in my heart for you dies… but I know in my heart and head that will never, ever happen!!!

Drew

October 25, 2013

To my dearest Lorraine, my best friend and the love of my life,

Today would have been our nineteenth wedding anniversary.

“I never can love another as long as life may stand. No maid the wide world over shall hold this heart or hand.”
Unknown

October 13, 2013

Drew, Thanks for sharing that special time you spent at Plum Cove, it brough tears and joy to me. I have fond memories of both of you on a daily basis. stan

Holly Warren-Norman

October 11, 2013

Dear Lorraine,

May Drew's journey this month to visit your place of rest and revisit your and his memories leave him at peace. I know he loved you very much and at the same time I hope this will let him move onto another stage of grieving with less pain. We miss you.

Love from you sister-in-law
Holly

Plum Cove

Drew

October 9, 2013

Your loving, lost and lonely husband Drew

October 8, 2013

To my dearest Lorraine, my best friend and the love of my life.

I flew from Austin to Boston and drove up to Cape Ann this week.

Cape Ann is so beautiful in the fall. I'm so glad you bestowed this stunning Island to me, yet it holds so much pain… I most likely will never return here again.

I came to visit with you… to be one-to-one; heart-to-heart and tête-à-tête with you because I feel you are always with me…

I came to say my goodbyes to you.

I sat on the beach at Plum Cove where I scattered your ashes one year ago today to read my final "farewell” and “goodbye” letters to you. I read them out loud to you and even shouted out to you at times. I must have sounded like a crazy man, sitting there, all alone on the beach talking to myself.
After I read the letters, I burned them… one by one; then buried the ashes into the beach… ashes to ashes.
I also threw two red roses into the cove for you just as I did when I scattered your ashes.
God knows how much I relished and enjoyed our life together and I know you would say the same… the laughter and loving we had together is so treasured by me and I'm a better man for the love we shared together.

Saying my goodbyes to you was very emotional. It was just as moving as the day I scattered your ashes… but somehow different.
I loved you very dearly and so sincerely but I must move on with my life, as difficult as it may be. Death destroys the illusion that we have "enough time” together but my grief for you has diminished because you are no longer in pain… no longer suffering…

Death so hurts the living and I've been living in a state of depression for far too long now.

Goodbye and farewell; my loving wife, my best friend and the love of my life.
I will always miss you and I will love you always!

Je vais toujours vous manquer.
Je t'aimerai pour toujours.
Je t'aime, au revoir et adieu mon amour.
Au revoir et adieu, ma femme bien-aimée, ma meilleure amie et l'amour de ma vie.

“There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.”
Unknown

Drew

September 3, 2013

“Every night I miss you. I can just look up and know the stars are holding you tonight.”
Unknown

Drew

August 6, 2013

“UNAVALABLE”

I had gotten rid of my old home phone after Lorraine passed away since I thought I wouldn't need it anymore. I setup an Ooma system several months later and received an entirely new phone number.

The week before and the week of the first anniversary of Lorraine's passing, my home phone would ring with the caller ID as “UNAVALABLE”. I just thought it was a solicitor so I ignored it.

After a dozen “UNAVALABLE” calls I decided to answer the phone…

There was absolutely no one on the other end of the line…

Nothing but silence…

I answered the phone several times with the same outcome…

The calls have since stopped…

Is this you Lorraine???

Martha McGaw

August 5, 2013

Wow! What a year this has been! Missing a very close and dear Friend! Drew and Lori, are also in my thoughts every day, with the many memories and happy times we shared watching Jeopardy together, whether it was in person or while watching while on the phone talking with Lori, and she always came up with the correct answer, way before I was finished reading the question! Wow, is all I can say about the super ability to answer questions in almost every category! Drew you are a very special Friend and you are also in my thoughts daily, and I realise you are struggling to cope with this tremondous lost in your life. As I find pictures from years ago, I relive those fun times we shared, and cherish the photos! As Drew faces this time alone, I Pray that God will give him the strength he needs to take one day at a time. Drew you have a loving and supportive family, and many friends that want to continue to love and support you during this time. You are a Super Friend and I love you Drew!

Drew

August 5, 2013

My broken heart...

August 4, 2013

Drew,

We think of you and Lori often, We see her everyday in our memories and good times, Lori was a great friend and neighbor, Lori was always so so kind to our children and loved them and cared about them. Jen and I are here for you Drew anytime you need or dont need us. Stan and Jen

Your loving and lost husband Drew

August 4, 2013

To my dearest Lorraine, my best friend and the love of my life.

“My Year of Tears for You”

August 2nd, I turned fifty-eighth years old...
August 3rd, was the first year anniversary of your passing… August 3rd. has become a new epoch.

The last five years of your life were very tough and grueling for you and difficult for me as well. The ten cranial surgical procedures you had to endure from 2007 to 2011 all took their toll on you! It was horrible watching you fade away. The grand mal seizures; deteriorating eyesight to the point where you couldn't read or write anymore; losing your motor skills where you had to use a cane and sometimes a walker…

Losing you has been the most devastating; horrific; heartbreaking and hurtful tragedy of my lifetime!

I have lived alone before but never with such a big, emply hole in my heart as I now have. I'm desperately trying to get to a point in my life where I can let you go and say “goodbye” but your death has profoundly and overwhelmingly changed me forever and has scarred my heart and soul very, very deeply. My life came crashing down on me the day you died and a part of me died along with you…

Your angels had waited for you for far too long and now they have their wings wrapped around you… God brought you home because you were suffering much too much.

My heart may/will? eventually mend for you but for now… I have just broken dreams.
I'm wearing an un-mended broken heart for you until that time that I can let you go.

I promise you I will love you always!!!

“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -- But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”
~Hilary Stanton Zunin

Drew

August 2, 2013

August 2nd. August 3rd… Forever

I will always cry on my birthday
I will always cry the day after
My wife passed away that day
It will always be this way

Only fifty-five years old
So many surgeries
A total of ten
So many urgencies

I live my life alone now
Lost and unknowing
I'm still in love my wife
not sure how to live without her
for the rest of my life

Drew

July 12, 2013

“Lost”

I'm still lost and nowhere to be found …
I'm still searching for answers to questions that I'm not sure to ask… why???
I'm trying to reassess, reevaluate and reexamine my life after my wife's, Lorraine's death…
But there's no point…
I'm half dead already!!!

Drew

July 3, 2013

“You will never know true happiness until you have truly loved, and you will never understand what pain really is until you have lost it.”
Unknown

Drew

June 3, 2013

“There's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me”.
Unknown

suzanne kirk

May 8, 2013

Dear Drew, our loving and caring Lori as you now loved living life loved her family and friends and most of all loved her loving pets, so look in to there eyes and share there love like they did for Lori and yes this is one of the hardest things in life to go through and you know your Lori, as she would say to me let the men suffer (with a laugh). She would not want you to to be broken she sooo loved you, as you are sooo loved there and here so get on a plane and come to S.F., get a rag top and cruise up to Tahoe but most of all Gary wont tell you but you are needed he needs to spend time..that is all we all have...love sue

Drew

May 7, 2013

“Everyone can master a grief but he that has it”
~William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Holly Warren-Norman

May 7, 2013

Drew, One of the things that has helped me get through some dark times is gratitude. Saying things like, "Thank you for all the wonderful years I had with Lori. Thank you for ..." Some days I had to make it so simplistic. "Thank you for the sunshine." "Thank you for sunlight that makes the grass grow." Once I started finding things, events, people, memories and ideas I was thankful for it was hard to stay in a negative place. The last person who posted was right about getting out and volunteering...helping others out. There are many things to help you through this depression. You just have to seek them out. I love you.

Doreen Doyle

May 6, 2013

Drew, your message is heartfelt, and very frightening for those of us who care about you. Living your life in memory of Lorraine is the best way to honor your relationship. Please try to find a way to mourn her loss, by celebrating what she loved most in life. Become an advocate for animal rights, visit patients who share Lorraine's medical issues, and bring them company and cheer. Share with them your happy stories of life with Lorraine. Do not focus on the loss, but use it to inspire others who feel the same. Lorraine loved life, and I don't believe that she would want you to give up on your life. We in the family care about you, and want you to find peace within. Do what you must to find a small grain of hope, and build from there. I love you.

Drew

May 5, 2013

“Another Lost Weekend”

Since losing my loving wife of seventeen years, nine months and ten days,
I'm still having a very difficult time accepting her death, each month I grow even more depressed.
She was only fifty-five years old… only fifty-five!!!!!!!
She left me with four cats that have taken over the house and I can't keep up with them.
There is so much I need to do and take care of but I'm paralyzed.
“I need you, Lorraine!” I cry out but there is never an answer. Never!!!!!!!
“A thousand words couldn't bring you back I know this because I tried, neither could a thousand tears I know this because I cried, you left behind a broken heart and happy memories too but I never wanted memories… I only wanted you”.
Unknown

I'm losing my will to live…

Drew

May 3, 2013

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal".
From a headstone in Ireland

Martha McGaw

April 4, 2013

Lori sweet friend! Wow how I still miss you so very much. On the 4th of March I had my hip replaced, and was so appreciative to have your bath chair, walker and cane, in that order. Drew was so special to let me have those needed aids. I can contribute my successful healing due to those needed types of equipment. I miss not being able to see you, and talk with you, and to share the events of the day. You will always be my dearest Friend, and I find my self having conversations in my head with you, call me crazy, that's okay too. No one can take our memories from me!Drew is so special, we still talk and that is important for me. I Love You Special Friend!

Drew

April 3, 2013

"The pain of having a broken heart is not so much as to kill you, yet not so little as to let you live."
Unknown

Drew

March 23, 2013

The most haunting visual I will ever have in my life was staring into my deceased wife's face!!!

I first noticed that she didn't appear to be breathing as she lay on the bed.

As I approached her, I saw her facial skin was light-yellow…

When I looked at her face, her eyes were partially open or closed if you prefer… but her eyes were lifeless… dead!

There was some spittle on the right side of her mouth… I'm sure she made a “death rattle” before she passed away but I never heard her.

I will be haunted forever by her face.

I kissed her on the forehead, told her I loved her and began to cry…

Lorraine and her mother, Lillian

Your husband, Drew

February 3, 2013

To my dearest Lorraine,

In the entire world, there was no one ever as unique as you.

You have been gone now for six months and things aren't getting much easier for me.

I was hoping that I would come to some sort of finality after I scattered you ashes on Plum Cove in October of last year… it was not to be. I'm still struggling with your death.

For the first two months after your passing I cried for you every morning when I woke up. Now I find myself crying for you at night. I'm so sad all the time now because reality has finally sunk in that you are truly gone… out of my life forever!

I'm not sure which direction to go in life now because you were my anchor and meaning and now I am adrift. I had pictured us growing old together and never could have I imagined how painful and hurtful losing a spouse could be. It truly damages the sole!!!

I will continue to love you until I die and I will love you always.

suzanne marzetta-kirk

January 8, 2013

Lori sweety,
It still has not sunk in that Gary or I can not pick up our phones and sit and talk for a couple of hours, you and I having our gripe fest our Gary and you talking about the Cubs. Our favorite times of the month have passed,and I can tell you honey like we would always say, the loved ones left behind have it the worst..Lori we will never let you leave our hearts and I have been blessed to have you in my life and always in my heart, you knew just how to put a smile on any ones face and that, I have always when I need it. Next thing dear Lori we will work on getting Drew out here for a little r and r !! Lori you are always in my thoughts and in my heart I so very much miss you....Sue and Gary

Pat Barron

January 3, 2013

My Dearest Lori,
Several months have gone by sence you left us to go to a better place. I don't miss you any less. It seens like it was just yesterday when you, Marty and myself would talk on the phone. We would have so much fun and you could always make me laugh so hard my sides would hurt. You could always tell some of the funnest stories. I guess I will always miss you, that's just part of you being gone. I love you Lori and always will.

Drew

January 2, 2013

Take my broken heart, I don't want it anymore.

Martha McGaw

December 22, 2012

Lori, my dearest Friend, your Birthday was hard for me to handle, cause you are not here! I miss you so very much and never a day goes by that you are not in my thoughts! I miss our visits in person and on the phone sometimes for hours at a time trying to solve the problems of the world! Mostly I miss your laughter and witty expresions that would make me laugh both at you and with you! Special friend you are missed and Loved so greatly! Drew is lost without you, I try to keep in contact with him, to let him know he is Loved also, and is a Very Special Friend, and like a little brother to me! Lori, Scooter will pick out your tennis balls and play with them for hours, and that makes me know, you are still around in our lives. There are so many times during each day that I want to pick up the phone and call you, to share something that happened or even just to share time talking to you! Wow I miss you bunches! Drew is going to share your puzzle table with me, and you can be assured tht every peice of puzzle I find will remind me of you working with your puzzles, and searching for a peice, and when I came in I would find it quickly, ha ha!Oh well, some of us just have it! Dear, I love you very much and miss you very much! There are extra stars in Heaven because of being there! Your memories are so Special to me and in my life!

Your husband, Drew

December 21, 2012

To my dearest Lorraine, my best friend and the love of my life,

Today would have been your fifty-sixth birthday...

Today is also the first day of the winter solstice. I know how much you loved the fall and winter and especially the snow. We rarely got any snowfall in Austin, Texas but I remember visiting your parents in Tower Lakes, Illinois at Christmas time after we were married. I always managed to catch a flight out and escape back to Texas before a big snowstorm hit and you would stay behind for a few days longer to be with your parents. You would call me to tell me how beautiful the snowfall was. You were so happy when it snowed and I loved hearing you talk about getting outside and walking your parent's dog, Pete, in the snow.

The so-called "Mayan doomsday" or “Mayan Apocalypse” also said the world would end today. It did not… but a huge part of my world ended that horrible day you passed away. Death is so final and absolute!

I miss you so much!!! I miss talking with you; I miss your voice; I miss your laughter; I miss your sense of humor; I miss your touch; I miss your kiss; I miss your love and devotion but most of all I miss your beautiful face. These were things that I took for granted but I now realize how very, very precious they all were.

Losing you has been the most heart-wrenching and heartbreaking experience I have ever had to struggle with, understand and cope with. I never would have dreamed that you would die so young and I never would have imaged that I would become a widower at the age of fifty-seven. Thoughts of you are the first thing that race into my head every morning when I wake up and the last thing in my mind before I fall asleep at night. I'm absolutely crushed and devastated by your death and I feel so lost without you. I'm still very much grieving for you and I still cry for you very often as well. I tried everything humanly possible to keep you alive… I failed you!!!

In time, I will learn to get by without you in my life. It will take a very, very long time to do so but I promise you that I will continue to love you always.

Art Gonzalez

November 2, 2012

Drew, my sincere condolences on the passing of your lovely wife Lorraine. I have no doubt that Heaven has become an even happier place because of her presence. God bless you during this difficult time.

Your husband, Drew

October 25, 2012

To the Love of My Life,

Today would have been our eighteenth wedding anniversary.

I was tremendously happy and very proud to have been your husband and to have had you in my life. I smile when I remember your beautiful face that I fell in love with. Your love, friendship and devotion were the best the thing that had ever happen to me and I loved you in life, as I do in your passing… always.

October 17, 2012

You have lit up many hearts,so my dear friend I light this for you,and while in Austria,and Italy and Germany ,forgot you did not know Megan took us any way all the beautiful churches I went into I lit a candle for you..love suzanne

Todd Warren

October 14, 2012

I shall deeply miss Lori, as she was more than just my sister-in-law. She was also the woman who brought joy and happiness to Drew, as well as all the rest of us Warrens.

Lori was also one of the "Barrington Buds", part of the "squad" and a good friend. I will always remember going over to Drew and Lori's home and hanging out and just visiting, watching a football game or World Series, or just plain having fun. In 2012, we also lost our dear mother Georgia Lee Warren and I came to realize how devastating it was for both my father and brother to have lost the women that they each had loved. I realized how fortunate they were to have found their one, true loves in this life.

Please keep both Drew and Dad in your prayers and one day, we will all be united when we finally come home to be with the Lord.

Your husband, Drew

October 8, 2012

My dearest Lorraine,

Today I returned you to your parents. As you wished, I scattered your ashes in Plum Cove on Cape Ann, Massachusetts where we scattered both your parents and your aunt years ago. I pray you can now rest in peace. I also scattered Sam's, Jake's and Iggy's ashes after yours. I know how much you loved those two dogs and cat and I wanted them to be with you.

I still miss you immensely and I will love you always.

God saw you getting tired,
And a cure was not to be.
So He put His arms around you,
And whispered “Come with me”.
With tearful eyes I watched you,
As you slowly passed away.
Although I loved you dearly,
I could not make you stay.
A golden heart stopped beating,
A brilliant mind set to rest.
God broke my heart to prove to me,
He only takes the best.
A million times I've needed you,
And a million times I've cried.
If love alone could have saved you,
You never would have died.
A heart of gold stopped beating,
Two smiling eyes closed to rest,
God broke my heart to prove to me,
He only takes the best.

--author unknown

Joy Madry

October 7, 2012

I will miss having Lori as a friend and neighbor. She was so much fun and a character. Always made me laugh and had a wonderul sense of humor. May she rest peacefully now.

Doreen Doyle

September 30, 2012

My dear cousin,
It has taken me a while to compose this message, since I don't really know what to say...it all seems so unreal. Can we ever understand why some of our family members leave us so soon? As your OLDER cousin, I have to struggle with the reality that for no apparent reason, I have outlived many of my younger family members.

I didn't have a great length of time in your company, as our lives were lived many miles apart. But the times we did spend together were SO MUCH FUN!. You knew how to laugh, and you did so often. You loved a good story, and could spin a good tale yourself. You respected the family dynamic, and honored your mom with every kind action you performed in her memory. Now you are with her again.

All my love and prayers to you Drew, and to my cousin Lori. Doreen

Holly Warren-Norman

September 23, 2012

Lori,
You would have LOVED the CELEBRATION OF LIFE event that Drew threw in your honor last night at Eddie V's restaurant. There you were in all your glory; your childhood years, pictures of you and your mother, all the dogs and cats your have nurtured over the years, your favorite holiday, Halloween, with pictures of the house all decorated. My favorites photographs were the ones where you and Drew got married in 1994. It was truly a FEAST for all the senses and it did not really hit me until today that you are gone. I am so sorry you for all the health issues you had to struggle with and I hope you are looking down upon us, knowing that you were LOVED and finally at peace. We will be here for Drew if he needs us. We miss you.

Love, Love, Love,

Your sister-in-law,
Holly

Your husband, Drew

September 23, 2012

My dearest Lorraine,

Tonight I had a Celebration of Life dinner for you with many of your friends and family at Eddie V's in Austin, TX. Today was the first day of autumn and I know how much you loved the Autumnal Equinox. It was a very nice dinner in your honor.

I miss you immensely and I will love you always.

Sue Shade

September 12, 2012

All this time and I still find it hard to begin. I miss you, Lori, my friend since high school and aneurysm buddy since 2008. I don't know who else could ever understand like you did. We could really rack up the minutes on a phone. You left us too soon, but at least you are at peace.

Lori and Elaine Warren

Elaine Warren

September 5, 2012

A woman as outstandingly clever, witty and wonderful as Lori deserves to have her life honored, celebrated and remembered! My former sister-in-law and buddy Lori forever will be very much alive in my heart. It's hard to believe her journey here is over so soon and oh how it hurts me to say: Goodbye my friend! I'll miss you dearly my sis! But I will always hold on tight to the wonderful memories I have of you! (Once Lori told me something which will echo in my heart for as long as I live, she said: “We don't need the law to tell us we are sisters! For sisters is what we are and will always be!”) I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU LORI! This is my tribute and this is my promise!

September 2, 2012

Drew, so sorry to hear of Lori's passing. I knew Lori all my life, Lori and her mother would come to Gloucester to visit, my mother, Ilmi Doyle, always loved Lori's mother and Lori so much, I remember going on trips around the Northshore of Massachusetts, Lori always brightened the visit, she was so full of vitality and excitement, there is a picture of Lori and me from the early 60s at Boston's Logan airport. I'm hoping to find it to post here. It was great times. I'm thinking of you, Lori is in my prayers
God Bless,
Michael Doyle

Martha McGaw

August 29, 2012

My Special and Dear Friend Lori left us way to soon! I do not know if I will ever be able to watch Jeopardy without my "Jeopardy Buddie" Lori you are missed and Loved! Drew you are a very Long time and Special Friend, and I treasure your friendship, and want to be there for you when you need me for anything. My Thoughts and Prayers are with you daily as you cope with Life, without the Love of your Life.

stan and jen underwood

August 28, 2012

Drew, Lori will be missed by many, Jen and I have many fond memories we shared with you and Lori, Lori always made Gregory feel special and important, Lori could always put a smile on our faces, she will be missed, stan and jen and family

Joseph Auditore

August 26, 2012

Sorry to hear of Lori's passing, I'll always remember the talks me and my mom would have with her on the phone, was actually thinking of her the other week and a phone conversation we had. I'll miss her, and stay strong Drew.

Patricia (Pat) Barron

August 24, 2012

Loved and miss you so very much. My love to Drew and carry on for Lori.

August 22, 2012

Drew,
I'm very sorry to hear of your loss. Sandy and I will keep you in our prayers. Be stong.
Steve King

BCHS Class of 1973

August 19, 2012

Drew, Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Lorraine will be so missed by her friends and classmates.

Mick & Bunny Furuta

August 16, 2012

Drew & Family, We sincerely will miss your beloved wife and dear friend to us. Our thoughts go out to you and may all the great memories stay with us.

Pas & Jean also send their condolences and commented that Lori was a really nice girl.
Love, Bunny & Mick

Mine' Stanczak

August 15, 2012

My thoughts and prayers are with the family. So sorry for your loss! She was so young and seemed so full of energy. God bless you and keep you strong in Him.

Holly Warren-Norman

August 14, 2012

Drew, We are so sorry you have lost the love of your life. May the memories of the good times you and Lori had help you during this sorrowful time.
Love, Love, Love,
Holly, Barry, Aaron & Brianna

Holly Warren-Norman

August 14, 2012

Lori, You left this earth much too early. We will miss your laughter and thought-provoking quips. Finally you have peace. We will miss you.
~ Holly, Barry, Aaron & Brianna

Gary and Suzanne Kirk

August 13, 2012

Lori, we love you and we will miss you.

Your husband Drew

August 11, 2012

To The Love of My Life,
My heart is broken. I will love you always!

Peter Tadin

August 11, 2012

My heart and prayers go out to Drew in the loss of the love of his life. May God surround you with His angels in comforting you in your time of loss.

Drew, Your husband

August 10, 2012

To The Love of My Life,
My heart is broken. I will love you always!

Don Pulley

August 9, 2012

I will miss you Lori. So long my good friend.

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