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Corey DiGiovanni Obituary

Corey Edward DiGiovanni, 36, resident of Terrytown, LA died May 5, 2016. He was born November 2, 1979 in New Orleans, LA. He worked at John W. Stone for 5 years and finished his tenure there as a Shore Tankerman. He had an extraordinary amount of love for his family and friends. He had a huge heart and his family and friends enjoyed every memory shared with him. Corey is survived by his father Paul DiGiovanni, mother Carol Duffy DiGiovanni, brother Nathan DiGiovanni, two sons Corey and Braxton, and his niece Anabella. He also leaves behind his grandmother Blanche Duffy; two aunts Debbie Eskine and Barbara Campesi (Pete); several of his cousins including Brandon, Sherry, Brian, Michael, and many others; his girlfriend Dania Valverde and her two children Dillon and Valerie. He was loved by many and will be missed by all. Family and friends are invited to attend the visitation at MOTHE FUNERAL HOME, 2100 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, LA on Monday, May 16, 2016 from 9AM until 3PM. A Funeral Mass will be held at the funeral home on Monday at 3PM. Interment will be privately held at a later date. Family and friends may view and sign the online guestbook at www.mothefunerals.com.

Published by The New Orleans Advocate from May 13 to May 20, 2016.
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Its been 7 years since you left us for Heaven. I still can't believe you are gone. We miss you terribly. Lil Corey and HIllary are about to make you a Grandpa.. LOL I know you would be bringing her everywhere with you showing her off. Your mom has been seeing lil Corey and Hillary. Which makes me happy. I see Braxton on all Holidays. He looks like you and has lots of your mannerisms. Lil Corey is now a part of his life. He goes and gets him for special occasions. Things are falling into place like you would have wanted it to be. Visit me soon, I miss you. Love you always. Nanny

Debbie Eskine

May 5, 2023

6 Years now. Its still hurts. Miss you so much. Its just been us three, Mom, Aunt Barb and me. We hang out on Saturdays like we did when Mawmaw was here. I know you and her are happy together. Hope yall watch over us. We kind of need it right now. Your mom has to find a place to live now that the house was bought. I will miss being able to walk into my moms house where we all grew up. Sure will be strange not to be a part of Wright. But we still have lots to be grateful for so I guess we will all move forward and start new memories with each other. I love and miss you terribly Corey. God I know if you were still here things would be so different. But at least you are in heaven. Not having to put up with this terrible world we live in right now. Please visit. I miss you. Still seems like yesterday. Guess it will always feel that way. I love you. Nanny <3

Debbie Eskine

Family

May 6, 2022

5 Years has passed, it still seems so unreal. I think about you all the time. We miss you so much. Hope you were there to welcome Mawmaw to heaven. Bet she was happy to see you. And then Pete arrived. I know you were surprised to see him. His passing was a shock. Aunt Barbie is trying her best to get through her days without him. I speak to Braxton. You would be so proud of him. He is a character. Tall, skinny and funny. I love you Corey and miss you terribly. Hug my mama for me, I miss her too. Love Ya, Nanny

Deborah Eskine

May 5, 2021

Hey baby, I can't believe its been 4 years. In my heart it still feels like yesterday. I miss you so much. I still can picture you on the levee by Stone waving to me. Corey this still feels so like a nightmare. I bet you were so surprised to see June, Bryan and Shane up there. When they passed I said to myself, Corey will have a lot of catching up to do with these three. I have been seeing pictures of Braxton. He is adorable. I know you would be parading him all over town. Corey he is gonna be so tall. MawMaw is doing ok. She is grumpy as ever. She occasionally ask about you. We still tell her you offshore. She would not be able to go through all the grief that we have been since you left. We hear Lil Corey is engaged to a pretty blond. You would be so proud of him. He has a good job and looks so handsome. Ya girl Valerie is a lil cheerleader at AOL. She is quite a looker. you would not approve of the clothes these lil girls wear but its funny picturing what you would have said to some of the clothes. lol There has been an awful virus that has hit the freaking world causing sickness and death. I kid you not!!! We are having to wear mask and sometimes gloves depending where you at to protect us from it. Corey, your mom and I were talking about you being here for this crap. We could not stop laughing. We just know you would be wearing a hazMat suit. You would not believe how it is right now. Its like a Steven Spielberg science-fiction movie. Brandon walks around the house with Lysol wipes and spray. lol He has a fit when we have to go to the grocery. He is waiting for me in the driveway with hand sanitizer and spraying me down lol. This is a whole new world we live in now. Things may never be the same again. Its scary. Please watch over us and be by our side. We all love and miss you so much. I love you Nanny

Debbie Eskine

May 5, 2020

I can't believe it's been 2yrs. My soul is screaming in pain still like you were just taken from me yesterday. Omg when does the pain go away??? When does it get easier to live without you??? I've collected every feather I find,& feed the cardinal every morning in hopes that its true & that its really you. I just miss you so much. I miss your smile, your laugh, the sound of voice, the touch of your hand, feeling safe wrapped in your arms, all the goofy things you used to say & do, I miss seeing you stick your tongue out at me like a 2yr old, lol, I just miss you! I still keep hoping I'll wake from this nitemare & you'll still be here with me. Please help me get through this my love. I'm dead inside, with a hole in my heart, I feel so alone. I would give anything to be together again. I don't know why I'm stuck here living without you but until we meet again, I'll always love you Big Sexy.

April

May 7, 2018

Happy Anniversary My Love. I miss you so much. Im so lost & broken. I still don't know how to live life without you. I'm in such a dark place. I rarely leave my house, I don't talk to anyone anymore, I've cut everyone out my life. They just don't understand & im sick of people telling me I need to get over you. I just don't know how to do that. I don't want to get over you. I just want us together again. How am I supposed to live when the other half of me is gone? Im empty inside, my heart & soul died with you. Its almost 2yrs and I still hurt as much as I did the day you were taken from me. I never thought I'd be spending our anniversaries alone. I love you Big Sexy

April Conaway

April 24, 2018

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH COREY. I STILL LOOK FOR YOU WHEN WALKING. I HAVE BEEN FINDING FEATHERS. SUPPOSEDLY IT MEANS YOU ARE AROUND. HOPE SO :) THE OTHER DAY I FELT A TUG AT MY SHIRT. WAS THAT YOU ? :) HOPE SO INSTANTLY I LOOKED BEHIND ME AND SMILED. I MISS YOU TERRIBLY I HOPE TO SEE YOU IN A DREAM. MISS THAT HANDSOME FACE. LOL (((HUG)))

DEBORAH ESKINE

September 18, 2017

The 5th made a year that you got called home. It still feels like yesterday that this nightmare started for me. I just cant accept this. I still look for you everywhere. Sometimes I see red birds and butterflies. I even found a tiny white feather. all this is suppose to mean that your love one is present. but I just don't feel it. Just about everyone has seen you in a dream or two. Not me and I do need to see you. I cant believe out of all the people you know not one has a video of you. Sometimes when I am sitting in my recliner watching tv or just thinking something catches my eye like movement down the hallway. when I look no one is there. Is that you? Are you watching over us? Please help me through this. I want to know in my heart that you are at peace. I love you so much Corey and I miss you.

Nanny

May 12, 2017

Happy Valentines Day my Love, I miss you so much Corey. I remember last year we were eating beignets, walking around downtown, having fun & you played hookie from work so we could spend the night together, we were so happy. This is so hard without you. I hate the holidays now, im so alone. I would give anything to have you back home with me. They say your in a better place but there is no better place than for us to be together and happy again. I hope you liked your balloons, and your note that i sent up to you. My heart is so broken, my life is so empty, everything's changed, everything is so different without you. I've never felt this kind of pain before, I don't know how to move on and live a life without you. Our love was so rare and special, we were supposed to grow old together but we robbed of our life but i will wait for you. I'll be waiting for the day that we're together again and then no one will be able to separate us ever again.
I Love You Big Sexy

April

February 14, 2017

Hey baby, Been missing you bunches. the holidays were very different this year without you. kids had a blast but for all us grown ups, not so much. Just glad its all over with. I think of you all the time. Every morning when I wake up to every night when I close my eyes. I have never known grief to be this hurtful and empty before. The loss of you is so different. I feel I will never be ok or happy again. They tell me you in a better place but the selfishness in me wants you back here with all of us. I cant stop looking for your truck in the neighborhood or when I see a Stone truck I look for you in it. I pass your cross everyday to tell you hey and I LOVE you. Even now this horrific day doesn't feel real. Two nights ago I kept staring at my side door picturing you walking in saying "Whats up Nanny" I want you back Corey I want you back.

Nanny

January 12, 2017

I can't believe it's been 8mths already still feels like yesterday. I miss you so much my love. I finally have some good news thou, i got a job. I know, lol, Me! Actually working!! But it's time for me to learn how to stand on my own 2 feet. I tell myself everyday, what would Corey do? You would keep fighting and do everything you could to make me proud and im gonna make you proud! I will not let everything you did for me & my kids be in vain! I LOVE YOU BIG SEXY!

April

January 9, 2017

Its been a min since ive wrote to you but these holidays are killing me without you. Im living in this darkness, my world is so empty, im lost without you. Im struggling to keep it together, i just dont know what to do anymore. Im trying so hard to stay strong for you but how do i do that when i feel so weak. I miss you so much Corey. I love you always, until we meet again my heart will stay broken without you.

April

December 15, 2016

I can't believe it's been 6mths already my love. It feels like just yesterday you were stolen away from me. Words can't express the love I have for you still, the hurt that I feel everyday that your gone, but they say that true love never dies so I know that your up there in heaven waiting for me, waiting for us to be together again. I wore my ring for the first time today & it brought me to tears, happiness & sadness all at one time. It's just been so hard to even open my jewelry box & look at any of it without breaking down but for some reason today I felt like it was time. I'm glad I did too b/c I felt like you were with me all day, it's almost like I could feel your arms around me again. I miss you so much. I'm going to see a psychic/medium Tuesday so I can talk to you one more time. I just need to know your ok, that your at peace now. God I Love you so much Corey. My heart aches for you everyday, all day. I know I'll never get over you, they'll never be another you my love, but I'm hoping to get some kind of peace of mind or some closure from this. I'm living in such a dark place without you. Idk how to move on with my life without you in it. So I guess we'll wait & see what Tuesday brings. Talk to you soon,I hope, I Love you Corey

April

November 5, 2016

Happy Birthday my Love, I miss you so much. I've been listening to your VM over & over again just to hear the sound of your voice, I miss your laugh, your smile, all the goofy things you use to say & do, I just miss you, all of you, everything about you! I would give anything to have you back here with me, I'm waiting for the day that We're together again. I hope your having a big birthday party & celebrating with all our friends that are up there in heaven with you. I LOVE YOU TO THE MOON & BACK COREY & Thank you for a the little signs you keep sending to let me know that your still by my side, there the only thing helping me through this & don't you worry I know what I gotta do now. I Love you Happy Birthday Big Sexy

April

November 2, 2016

I miss you, & I love you, & I know your up there in heaven watching over me, waiting for the day we're together again.

October 5, 2016

I Love you & miss you so much Corey. 5mths you've been gone now & it still feels like yesterday. The hurt is unbearable, idk how to move on without you. I read your letters & look at my ring & the pics of us & it kills me to think about how we were cheated out of our life together! I would give anything to spend one more day with you. I want you back here with me, I want us together again!

April

October 5, 2016

Today is 5 months since you went to heaven. I miss you terribly Corey. I'm always looking for you in the neighborhood. I finally have been very observant to the signs of you visiting me. I know you like scaring me but now I know its you. LOL Your baby boy turned 1. I saw a picture of him that someone snuck to me. He is adorable Corey. Erik took Valerie to a dance last week. Just as cousins don't get nervous. They had a blast. Erik and her are close and like to play all those video games on their ipads along with all the kids on my block in my living room. I don't mind though I would rather them here then on the street. lol I know how protective you are of her, don't worry I got her. I'm still seeing my shrink which I think is helping me somewhat, but all the medicines in the world will never take away the ache in my heart, and the emptiness I feel everyday. Please continue to visit me <3 I LOVE YOU ALWAYS <3 Nanny

Debbie Eskine

October 5, 2016

I miss you so much baby. I'm so lost! I've never felt so much pain like this before. It's a horrible feeling, to be here, living without you. My heart is so broken. I can't fake it anymore, pretending that I'm ok, putting on a fake smile cuz I'm not ok! I'm so miserable without you, my soul died with you. I want you back here with me my love!!! I stare at your picture every night, reading all the beautiful cards & letters you wrote me, holding my ring in my hand & just cry for you. I cant stand the thought of living this life without you! We were suppose to grow old together, we were cheated out of our life together!!! I Love you so much Corey

April

September 14, 2016

Well my love another month has gone by and everyone thinks I've completely lost it. But I know it's you sending me signs and watching over me. I had never even seen a cardinal before until you died. When I was ready to give up, I look out my window and there you were. I have to believe it's you, it's your way of letting me know your still here with me. I hope you like the bird bath I put in the front yard for you, I even throw some birds seeds out there so you don't starve. I didn't realize how many types of birds seeds there are till now but I throw a mix out there, your bond to like one of them,lol. Idk maybe I am going crazy without you but I don't care what anyone thinks, I'm gonna keep sitting outside every morning and drink my red bull with you until the day were together again. I Love you and miss you so much Corey. I miss you waking me up everyday, I miss your laugh, your smile, the sound of your voice, I miss everything about my big sexy baby. But I know we'll together again one day. I know your up there waiting for me. I Love You Corey

April

September 6, 2016

I miss you so much Corey. My heart is broken , I'm so lost without you, I don't know how to move on and live a life without you In it. I know your at peace now and in a better place but I want you back here with me! I guess I'm being selfish but I love you so much, when you died, a part of me died with you. I feel like my soul has been ripped out of me. Our love was so special and rare, it was a love that most people don't even find, a once in a lifetime love, we were soulmates, like you said, we were today's Bonnie & Clyde, and we were cheated out of our life together! I want you back so bad! I'm so broken. I just cry and cry for you. I'm tired of putting on a fake smile everyday pretending like I'm ok when on the inside I'm screaming in pain for you, my heart Just aches for you, I would give my life just to have one more day with you my love. I listen to your voice over and over again but it's not the same, I wanna talk to you again, I wanna hold you again and tell you how much I love you, I want to be home with you and our lil monkey again, I just want you back!!! I love you so much Corey, I can't wait to see you again, I know you'll be there waiting for me when we meet again,

April

August 25, 2016

These past 3 Mths have been hell without you Corey. Your in my every thought, I miss you like crazy! I want you back! Everyone keeps telling me your in a better place but I want you back here with me. I keep waiting for you to call or walk thru the door but then reality hits and I just start to cry again.
I Love You so much Corey

April

August 13, 2016

3 months you been gone. My heart is so broken. I miss you everyday Corey. I love you. xoxoxo Nanny

Debbie Eskine

August 5, 2016

Thinking about you as usual Corey. I miss you so much. I Love you more than words ever say

April

August 1, 2016

I love you Corey... always thinking of you.

Nanny

Debbie Eskine

July 18, 2016

I LOVE YOU & MISS YOU SO MUCH COREY.

July 13, 2016

I miss u so much Corey, I want u back in my life. I am absolutely miserable & lost without u! I'm so tired of everyone telling me I need to move on & start living again, they wanna see that spark back in me, that fire in my eyes. Why can't they understand! I feel like my soul was ripped out of me, I don't wanna go on without u! I want us to be together again. I don't wanna let u down & I'm trying so hard not to go back to my old life but it's so hard without u. I feel so alone. I miss your smile, I miss us playing & laughing everyday, I still wait for u to call or txt me & I know it's stupid but I just keep hoping this is a nightmare I'll wake up from. I just wanna give up but no matter what I'll always love you Corey! Plz my love help me thru this. Show me the way back from all this, tell me what to do! I love you and miss you so much COREY ;(

April

July 13, 2016

Hey, I miss you like crazy. Corey, you never leave my mind. I feel like Im never gonna be happy again. I look for you all the time when I walk Oddie. This still does not feel real to me. Its like a horrible nightmare. I want you back Corey. I want to see you walk through my door. I want to hear your voice and laugh. I miss and love you so much. My heart is so broken. Nanny

Debbie Eskine

July 6, 2016

Oh my love I just don't know how to go on without you. I see everyone else moving on with their lives but I can't. I'm stuck in this darkness without! I miss you so much! I feel so alone, like everything good in this world is gone, I just wanna give up. Please my baby send me your strength so I can get through this.i need you to Help me get through this nightmare. I love you so much!

April

June 26, 2016

I LOVE & MISS U SO MUCH BIG SEXY, PLZ HELP ME THRU THIS, IM DYING INSIDE WITHOUT U! PLZ BABY SEND ME UR STRENGTH I NEED U MORE THAN EVER RIGHT NOW

April

June 22, 2016

Been thinking about you. Its like you never leave my mind now. People tell me you are in a better place now but my selfishness wants you back here with us. Maybe that night when you called me crying I should have done or said something different. Its almost like you knew something was gonna happen to you the way you came to my house and went straight to Valerie, laid next to her and hugged, kissed and asked her if she knew how much you loved her. It breaks my heart that you are not here anymore. Please help me get through this. I love you always. Nanny

Debbie Eskine

June 21, 2016

Happy Fathers Day my love, U were a great dad, & a wonderful step-dad to my 2 boys & a few others too, U had a heart of gold & there's no other like U, u were truly one of a kind my love. I miss u so much, we all do.
Until we meet again, I'll always love u

April

June 19, 2016

I miss u so much my love, I am falling apart without u, it hurts so much, please give me the strength to get thru this, I need u so bad right now, the hotel in Destin called today for our final payment for our vaca nxt mth & I didn't KNO what to say, I remember how much fun we had last year, I love u so much, please my love send me ur strength, let me KNO ur at peace. I love u so much Corey

April

June 17, 2016

I love you ❤

June 17, 2016

Missing you so much Corey. I don't think I'm ever gonna be ok. I think of you everyday. Hoping that this is a nightmare, and I will wake up and you will be here with us. I pretty much cried for you everyday since you been gone. Please help me through this. I want you back so bad I hurt. Help me baby please. I love you.

Debbie Eskine

June 16, 2016

I love u always

Tiffany

June 14, 2016

I love & miss u so much my love, I feel like my soul was ripped out of me, part of me died the day u did, it's a nightmare I can't wake up frm, but I KNO u will be there waiting for me so until we meet again, I'll always love u big sexy

April

June 14, 2016

I love and miss you so much Corey. I feel like this is not real. I look for your text messages, your car in the neighborhood, you walking through my door at the house. Please help me through this nightmare. I love you forever baby.

Debbie Eskine

June 9, 2016

There are no words to describe how devastated I am. I love you with all my heart and soul. I will miss you forever. Please watch over us and help us to accept your not being here with us. I know you are with God and all our relatives up in heaven. I love you my baby. I love you

Debbie Eskine

June 3, 2016

Paul , Corey will definitely be missed by you !! but he will always be in your heart and memory hold on to your good memories with him , he's now y'all guardian angel always watching over you and y'a family they say time heals all wounds and losses but nothing makes it easier for your loss now Hang in there cuz , love you !

Lisa Smith

May 15, 2016

Our thoughts and prayers are with all❤❤ we love y'all ❤Anthony and Corey be good up there and watch over us ❤❤love Nancy and Gary ❤

Nancy Scorsone

May 13, 2016

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