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A
March 11, 2025
Hard to believe it´s been so long. Feels like a lifetime and a moment all at once.
dad
March 11, 2025
Twenty one years ago, the morning started out like any other winter morning. There was a cold wind blowing that morning, and by the end of the day, the cold was everywhere. Rest easy Kelly, and thank you to all her friends who support her memory.
Miss you
March 11, 2025
21 years and it never doesn´t feel like it just happened. So many songs still bring me right back to you.
Elizabeth Klyczek
March 11, 2025
Thinking of you and your family today Kelly. You are always missed but remembered fondly.
Emily
March 11, 2025
Thinking of you all today! Take care
E
December 26, 2024
happy belated birthday, you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers
Elizabeth Klyczek
December 25, 2024
Happy Birthday Kelly! You and your family are in my prayers. Thought a lot about you today.
M
March 13, 2024
20 years and yet I still remember everything from the last conversation I had with you to the moment I found out. it still hurts when the day sneaks up and it´s unbelievable still that you´ve been gone longer than you were here. Thank you for the friendship we had and the impact on who I am because of knowing you.
DAD
March 11, 2024
Every year this day comes and goes.
If only the event only lasted for a day.
Good luck to you all!
Rie
March 11, 2024
I miss you .
Elizabeth Klyczek
March 11, 2024
Thinking of you and your family today. Can't believe it's been 20 years, you are missed and never forgotten.
Emily
March 11, 2024
Thinking of you and your family today!
Ashley Clark
January 31, 2024
Kelly.. Over the years You've always been heavy on my mind. At the time we were so young at Owen and remember it being such confusing time. You had a wonderful light about you. I would never forget you
Elizabeth Klyczek
December 29, 2023
So sorry this is a few days late but Happy Belated Birthday Kelly! You and your family are always in be my prayers.
~Elizabeth
Emily
December 27, 2023
Happy Belated Birthday! God bless you and your family.
Kelly
June 19, 2023
I know I never met you but thank you for being a good friend to my mom. And giving me you first and middle name. You would´ve been a good aunt. my mom also talks about you a lot.
Dad
March 12, 2023
We went to the cemetery, we went to the memorial. An entire life once so vibrant reduced to a pin wheel and a marker. I digitized her 7th birthday party, some of you are in it. It´s posted on her website. Take care.
E
March 11, 2023
Thinking of you all today, please take care.
Elizabeth Klyczek
March 11, 2023
Thinking of you and your family today. Always in my prayers.
Kim Nute-Jones
March 2, 2023
Wow! I cannot believe it's been almost 20 years. I spoke about you today. I pray your family is doing well.
Mrs. Kim Nute-Jones
Emily
December 26, 2022
Happy Belated Birthday, much love to you and your family
Elizabeth Klyczek
December 26, 2022
Happy belated birthday Kelly! Thought of you yesterday. You are always missed and your family is always in my prayers.
Dad
December 25, 2022
Another birth date comes and goes. Time tends to blur together over the years. I still remember the bitter cold of that Christmas Morning, the garage door refusing to go down and our neighbor Glen, pretty sure he had been out all night drinking saying he'd close it for us and we should go. Your came that morning, and you left a short 14 years later in the morning. You were born and died at the same hospital, and you only knew one home. It was all way too fast.
Sam hynes
March 13, 2022
Still to this day you have a special place in my and my mom's heart. Whenever I see photos of you from my childhood I am reminded of how much you made my life just a little bit better for knowing you. Thank you for the light you gave me.
Sam
Emily K.
March 11, 2022
Thinking of you all today
Elizabeth Klyczek
March 11, 2022
Can´t believe it´s been eighteen years. You are missed and never forgotten. You and your families are always in my prayers.
E
March 2, 2022
I can't believe it's going on 18 years since you pass away. Each one of us is doing our things. Some days, you come into my head. Other days, I'm wondering what to do with your life. In addition, on most days, I walk towards your cross when I'm going to work or classes. I wonder what you have done with your life. Sometimes, I miss our youth that I want to turn back time. I want to stay there forever in the early 2000s. We have stories about you.
Elizabeth Klyczek
January 4, 2022
Happy belated birthday Kelly! Continuing to pray for you and your family! Miss you always!
Emily
December 26, 2021
Happy Belated Birthday, God bless you all.
Tj
April 14, 2021
Crazy and sad how long it is been I went and visited your grave site on easter and i cried like the day you passed. 2 days later i was cleaning and found a photo of you sitting on your front porch in ur favorite blue and red stripe with white collar shirt. Seeing that flooded my mind with memories of all the things we did together i miss you so much i miss the fun times we had together but mostly i miss my best friend
Dad
March 11, 2021
Another year has gone by. You wouldn't have liked the pandemic, of course few people did with lack of socialization. So much has changed, but we wish you were here with us.
Time goes so fast, except for this day as it never ends.
A
March 11, 2021
I'll never forget hearing the news. Hard to believe it's been 17 years when it feels like it was yesterday. You are missed everyday.
Elizabeth Klyczek
March 11, 2021
Thinking of you and your family today Kelly. You are missed, never forgotten, and remembered with fond memories.
Emily
March 11, 2021
Thinking of you all often, especially today.
Elizabeth Klyczek
January 1, 2021
Happy belated birthday Kelly! Always keeping you and your family in my prayers!
Emily K.
December 31, 2020
Happy Belated Birthday, Kelly. I think of you and your family often
March 17, 2020
Hard to believe you'd be in your 30s. You were taken too soon, and there's forever a hole in our hearts.
John Nelson
March 11, 2020
Once again this day comes to pass. We mark it every year, wondering what might have been.
Such loss of talent across the world, we mark the losses with silence and reverence.
I hope all Kelly's friends find happiness in their quests.
Elizabeth Klyczek
March 11, 2020
Thinking of you and your family today! You are always remembered fondly!
March 11, 2020
Thinking of you all today
Rie
March 11, 2020
I love you and miss you so much .this day sucks every year always and forever
January 2, 2020
I wonder if we would've celebrated your 30th together. I wonder if our friendship would've stayed strong. I wonder who I'd be if you were still around. I wonder constantly why things happened how they did and I miss you so much still during the most random things. A song on the radio, a design on a T-shirt, a gift you gave me I'm still holding onto.
I can't believe you're not here for 30.
John Nelson
December 25, 2019
30 years ago today it was a cold cold Christmas morning in Chicago when we left our house for the hospital. Our garage door was frozen and wouldn't close, but our neighbor happened to be outside and when he saw our plight he just said "Go Go, I've got the door". A completely different world from Christmas today with 50+ degree temperatures.
We felt there was such potential at birth. We never thought things would end the way they did. I still wonder what you might have done in adulthood. Things we'll never know.
There are so many lost potentials in this world today.
Elizabeth Klyczek
December 25, 2019
Happy 30th Birthday Kelly! Forever keeping you and your family in my prayers! The memories will remain forever in my heart!
Love,
Elizabeth
December 25, 2019
Happy 30th Birthday, Kelly. Wishing your family peace during this holiday season and may memories bring comfort to you all.
Elizabeth Pahr
March 28, 2019
Thinking of the day
When you went away
What a life to take
What a bond to break
I'll be missing you
Cassie Castro
March 12, 2019
Haven't wrote in this guest book in a very long time. 15 yrs have gone by, and yet I wonder what you would be doing now- preferably a musician, a drummer in some band or an artist. Whatever the outcome may be, I'm sure you would have been awesome at it! I won't forget the times we had at Girl Scouts and spent at Owen.
Your life was taken too soon. I don't remember how our class survived those last few months before graduating. Also remembered that we dedicated a song to you on graduation. And weeks before graduating, we had custom shirts made in your memory- although they came out crappy but we kept them despite not having enough time to get them remade. I can't believe I still have it :D. Nelson Family you are in my thoughts today. Take care and God bless you.
March 12, 2019
You are always in our in hearts and never forgotten.....today sucks just as it did 15 years:ago ......miss you kel
March 11, 2019
Thinking of Kelly and you all today.
Elizabeth Klyczek
March 11, 2019
Thinking of you and your family today Kelly! I can't believe it has been fifteen years! How fast the time goes and yet it feels like yesterday. Your resting place is not far from grandparents. I'm lucky to have special angels up heaven! Love ya and BFF! ❤❤
March 11, 2019
Thinking of you today, dear girl.
John Nelson
March 11, 2019
Yet another time comes by that we relive that day. Sometimes it feels like it happens every week of every month instead of once a year, yet here we stand, another year older, another year gone and there is nothing we can change.
Be safe,
March 11, 2019
I can't believe you've been gone 15 years now. I can't believe it's been so long and some days it feels like yesterday. I still remember where I was when I got the news. I hope we would have still been friends all these years later and I hate that I'll never know what you would've done with your life. I miss you. And I always will.
February 27, 2019
You came pop in my head today. I know that it will be 15 years since you been gone. Some days are easly than others. But, we wish know what life would like if you were with us in person.
John Nelson
December 25, 2018
Yet another Birthday has come to pass without you being here to celebrate with us.
Soon you will have been gone longer than you were with us. Its truly is hard to believe that any of this is real. You are missed.
We've been going thru photos since Grandma passed away and found many more of you that we'll get scanned soon.
Godspeed!
December 25, 2018
Happy Birthay, Kelly! You are greatly missed...
Elizabeth Klyczek
December 25, 2018
Happy birthday! I pray for you and your family always! Love ya!
December 20, 2018
Happy Birthday, Kelly. You are still loved and missed, every single day.
March 22, 2018
It seems impossible that you've been gone as long as you were here. It doesn't make any sense. I don't often post on your guestbook, but I think of you every Christmas and wish you a happy birthday in heaven. I have a little girl now, and she has a friend in her class who looks so much like you did at that young age. It stops me cold each time. I wonder who you'd be today and where life would have taken you.
March 11, 2018
I can't believe that 14 years have already passed. I still all these years later have things from you around my room, they might be tucked away now but I know they're here and I will never stop missing you.
March 11, 2018
Thinking of you, beautiful Kelly. How is it that time flies and at the same time seems so long? Smile down upon your family.
Emily Klyczek
March 11, 2018
To the Nelson Family,
I think of you all and Kelly often especially on this day. You all and the Saint Dennis Community will always be near and dear to my heart. Kelly has left me many good memories.
Please take care,
Emily
March 11, 2018
Hi Kelly,
Thinking of you and your family today. I can't believe how much time has passed. You and your family continue to be in my prayers! You are never forgotten. The Saint Denis Days will always be a special memory and have a special place in my heart.
Love,
Elizabeth
John Nelson
March 11, 2018
For 14 years you lived in our home,
and now you've been gone 14 years.
Time has a way of numbing the pain, but its always there, just under the surface.
I still remember the cold wind that day as we waited outside with you for the ambulance.
The wind is still cold.
Cheryl Young
February 16, 2018
Grief Is Messy
Grief is messy yes indeed
We as parents wonder why y'all had to leave,
There were so many things we had left to do,
Now we walk through this world looking for you.
As the days turn into months, then years,
Oh yes, we cried so many, many tears.
They say time eases this pain,
But you never know what will bring it back again.
A soft breeze blowing on our faces,
The sound of laughter in the oddest places,
A song, a smell even our Masters Touch,
Something we all long for so much.
So we go on in this old world,
Trying to be brave,
But sometimes it just doesn't work out that way.
Our lives were changed in the blink of an eye........
We remember, we love and now we smile...
But the tears are just waiting, way down deep inside,
To come back to the surface in our minds eye, waiting to break forth like a warm summer rain,
Bringing your love and memories to us
once again.
I love you my angels oh so much,
Please give your families a special touch
Today, tomorrow and one day soon
We will see you with Jesus, The Lord of us all,
There will be no more sadness and no more tears and we will not remember the awful pain.
In Loving Memory and Honor of our Children gone to soon, and our special angel, Sandi Loraine Cobb
@by Cheryl Young
November 8, 2016
John Nelson
February 14, 2018
Less than a month until another anniversary of that fateful day, the boxes that sit in our basement peek out into sight (along with her guitar which is always out - the drum set was given away to a friend when we moved).
We boxed up everything from Kelly's room and moved them into the basement of the new house when we moved. The contents smell more like plastic now from years in storage boxes, not much of a hint of whence they came, but they are still memories just the same.
I hope all her friends are doing well and being safe.
Godspeed!
Cheryl Young
January 1, 2018
Hi John,
Thinking of our daughters as we start 2018. It will be 15 years on May 3rd of this year and I cannot believe it's been that long since I have heard my Sandi's Voice or held her in my arms.
God bless you and your family.
In Christ Love,
Cheryl Young
December 25, 2017
Happy birthday Kelly, I can't believe how long it's been since you've celebrated. I miss you still all these years later.
December 25, 2017
Happy Birthday, Kelly. Thinking of you and your family.
Col
December 25, 2017
Merry birthday kel missin you more then ever
Elizabeth Klyczek
December 24, 2017
Hi Kelly,
I know I'm early but just wanted to wish you a happy 28th birthday! My Gram, another angel, is now up in heaven with you. You and your family continue to be in my prayers!
Cheryl Young
October 11, 2017
Hi John,
I think of our girls around this time of year and I wonder what they would have been. My Sandi would be 35 this year and Kelly Ann 28 on her birthday in December. They would have changed the world and without them, it's never been the same brightness as it once was. So unfair. Both gone to soon.
God bless you and your family.
Always,
Sandi's Moma Forever
We met in Groww Heavenly Angels and our daughters lives ended the same way... ;-(
October 10, 2017
A few times a year, you pop into my head, and I wonder who you'd be today. I see so many of your elementary school classmates with degrees and starting families. It isn't fair. You were taken far too soon. I have no doubt you'd have changed the world for the better.
March 11, 2017
I can't believe how much time has gone by, I miss you still. This day still makes a piece of me feel missed. You forever changed my life, I'll never stop missing you, I'll never not wonder where we would be in life right now. I have no doubt we would still be friends, you've missed so much and I miss you so much.
March 11, 2017
Thinking of you and your family always, especially today. The Nelsons and the Saint Dennis community will always be near and dear to my heart.
Elizabeth Klyczek
March 10, 2017
Kelly,
I'll be thinking of you and your family tomorrow. More very special people are up in heaven with you now! I'll be praying for you and your family tomorrow. I can't believe it's been thirteen years! You are missed but remembered with fond memories.
Love,
Elizabeth
December 25, 2016
Happy Birthday, Kelly! You and your family are always near and dear to my heart.
Elizabeth Klyczek
December 25, 2016
Happy birthday! Thinking of you and your family! All of you are always in my prayers!
April 4, 2016
I thought of you today. We were never close, but you pop into my head a few times throughout the year. You are not forgotten.
March 11, 2016
To the Nelson Family,
Kelly, your family, and the Saint Denis community are thought of often. Please take care.
Elizabeth Klyczek
March 11, 2016
Kelly,
I can't believe it's been twelve years. Thinking of you and your family today. You're always in my prayers.
March 11, 2016
I don't understand how it's been 12 years, how 12 years without you around have possibly passed. I still somedays feel like it was just yesterday and then others it feels like longer. I always wonder what you would have done with your life and where you would be now. Still to this day I haven't met anyone who even compares to who you were. You helped me become who I am and I will never stop missing you and I have come to terms with the fact that it will never stop hurting... the pain is just different now.
John Nelson
December 28, 2015
For the last 4 days, I've had this page open, trying to think of what can be said that hasn't already been said, but a recent incident reminded me of now;
My wife received a new strainer on Christmas as for years ours had a melted spot from getting too close to the heat of the stove. When I mentioned throwing the old one way she said we can't do that, that she and Kelly were cooking once and Kelly set it too close to a lit burner. She'd use the new one from now on, but we had to save that one, because Kelly was the one who made it how it is today.
Traditions such as the photo Christmas card stopped that year. If we couldn't send out the entire family in the photo, we weren't going to send out anything (so don't be offended if you haven't received a card in the last decade, we just stopped sending them altogether).
And so it is, we move forward inch by inch, day by day and year by year, but we cling to the bits and pieces of the past that harbor fond memories and bring them with us.
Memories never die, and those who have gone before live within us.
Godspeed,
December 25, 2015
Kelly,
Thinking of you now, thinking of you always. Rest in peace.
Elizabeth Klyczek
December 25, 2015
Happy birthday Kelly! Thinking of you and your family! Still can't believe how much time has passed. You're all in my prayers.
Love,
Elizabeth
May 23, 2015
I woke up today thinking of you.
John Nelson
March 12, 2015
Drove to the memorial and looked around. Up and down the streets and alleys too. Some say the area has changed a lot, yet it doesn't look much different than it did when we all called it home.
The current house is more like a refugee home, just to get away from the sights and sounds of old neighborhood, and the reminders that came with it.
Yet we go back all the time.
We want to forget; we need to remember.
Godspeed.
March 11, 2015
Kelly and family,
Thinking of you now and will think of you always,
March 11, 2015
This day will never stop hurting, every year I still can remember perfectly when I heard the news as if it was happening now. I hate not knowing how life would have turned out, how things would have gone, what you would be doing now... You were one of the most amazing people to ever come into my life and I am so thankful everyday for the short time we spent together.
Elizabeth Klyczek
March 11, 2015
Thinking of you and your family today. You are missed and never forgotten!
Love always!
December 30, 2014
Happy Birthday, Kelly. My heart is always with your family.
Cheryl Young
December 27, 2014
In loving memory and honor of Kelly Ann.
John Nelson
December 25, 2014
Since 2004, death seemed to have called a moratorium upon us, that is, until 10 years later.
In 2014, Kelly's grandfather, Santa Claus in so many old family photos, passed away. Also, Kelly's dog Lady passed away, at roughly the same age as Kelly was when she left us.
Some felt that rather than carry the dog up and down stairs as her legs were failing we should have put her down, but there were too many memories attached to her, and she passed in the night just before July 4th.
Time moves on, and people, places and memories fade away.
December 25, 2014
Happy Golden Birthday Kelly! I think of you and your family often. Much love to you all.
Elizabeth Klyczek
December 25, 2014
Happy 25th Birthday! You are missed and never forgotten! <3
Alex Stalionis
March 21, 2014
Ten years later and still not a single day has gone by where you haven't touched my thoughts. I miss you so much and I hope I can get around to visit you sometime soon. I hope your family and friends are all doing well.
Camp Butternut Springs
Cassie Castro
March 13, 2014
michelle honings
March 11, 2014
Every year I tell myself I won't cry but I do anyway. I've been thinking all day about how everyone is starting families of their own and what your children would have been like. We all miss you very much and we know you're watching over all of us every single day. Forever in our hearts
March 11, 2014
Dear Kelly and family,
Thinking of you all often, especially on this day. I still cannot believe that it has been ten years. Kelly and the Saint Denis Community will always have a special place in my heart.
Please take care,
Emily
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