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Cris Melser
June 30, 2025
Oh Ina, I had no idea. It is with profound sadness I post my condolences to you. We are not supposed to bury our children and I wouldn't begin to understand what you went through or how you feel. I do think it has shaped the person you are. Caring, compassionate and comforting. We who know you love you no matter what
Mindy Koenig Dunkle
June 29, 2025
You will always be remembered and loved endlessly. Your mom will see to that! She loved you to the moon and back
Crystal
June 28, 2025
Our lives are but a flicker in this world, during this brief time in history. I didn't have the pleasure of meeting your sweet Trenton, but I can get glimpses of him every time you speak of him. Love , Crystal Barcello
Stacey
June 28, 2025
Trenton, we never met but I hear about you often through your mom and sister. I hope you can send them each a little love and light on this day of leaving them 20 years ago, I am sure they could use it. You would be so proud of them, they are incredible humans/moms!
Momma
May 16, 2025
On this day of the 20th anniversary of your passing, I look to the stars and know you are always with me. Your sister had a baby girl, Willow. You are an uncle again. Congratulations my darling boy.
Mom
August 4, 2024
Your sister and I got matching tattoos to remind us of you. You often come visit me as a blue dragonfly. Here's to you my boy. Love you and miss you so much.
Mom
June 29, 2024
Happy 44th birthday my golden boy. You requested that I take this picture of you in your HeMan sheets in the HeMan pajamas I made for you. I remember cracking up when you assumed this pose.
Mom
May 16, 2024
Saying goodbye for the 19th year to my darling boy. I miss you when you were little, I miss the man you became and mostly I miss our future.
Mom
May 13, 2023
It has been 18 years since I have heard your voice. 18 years since we laughed together at life. 18 years I've missed your laugh and you.
Mom
July 10, 2022
Your Aunt Lori passed away last week. Find her and the two of you can play that basketball game of Horse that you loved so much.
Mom
May 18, 2022
Seventeen Years! I think of you, see your smiling picture every day. Sometimes I smile, sometimes I cry. Sometimes I do both - which upsets the dog.
This year I went to see your sister and your nephew, who still has your name as his middle name. I feel your presence around him.
Ray, one of your organ recipients called me after his annual check up and said he is in great health.
I know you want me to be happy. I remember to let it happen. It takes some adjusting son. Miss you so much.
Aunt Micheal Maysonave
May 14, 2022
Dear Sweetheart, Trenton,
Today I was feeling sad and teary-eyed, remembering this was the day your uncle JC told me of your accident and that you would not be recovering from it. I remembering falling to my knees. Seventeen years have passed since that day and yet, it seems like only yesterday. So then I started reading all the condolences and letters to you on your memories from your friends and family and saw how much you were loved and how much love and joy you shared with all of us. I reminisce often of the fun times we had every summer and that made me smile. So, you see, you are still making me smile with that fabulous grin of yours. You would be so proud of your mom and Taylor. They are incredibly strong, caring and selfless women. I am blessed to have them in my life as I am to have spent those many summers with you. Today, we are going to take a boat ride to "the tree" to visit with you and your grandma.
You are forever in my heart, Aunt Micheal
Mom
June 29, 2021
Happy 41 Son. A wildfire caused us to evacuate last week. Funny the things that you chose to save. I brought your Saint's jersey and ashes with me. It was my lifeline to you. Happy Birthday.
Micheal Maysonave
May 16, 2021
Trenton, sweetheart. Yesterday Taylor, Casey, Cage and your Aunt Jamie arrived here to visit us on the bayou. It was the first time we got to meet your nephew, Cage. He reminds us so much of you. What a sweetheart he is. We took a boat ride to visit you and your grandmother at the cypress tree. Uncle JC let him drive the boat (sitting on uncle J’s lap). It reminded us of the time you drove the boat for the first time those many years ago. You see—you are forever in our thoughts. We love and miss you, Aunt Micheal
Rosina
May 15, 2021
Sixteen years ago my son became an organ donor. He gave quality of life to two people.
Mary in Arizona writes that his kidney has failed despite her efforts to “wake” it to working. She states that his pancreas is working well. We have never met, only letters. I have not heard from her in months so I don’t know how she is. Her family and I are grateful for 15 healthier years on a slightly used kidney.
Ray, in New Mexico is my soul connection to Trenton as well as his liver and kidney. He lost a son a year before I did. He contacts me at least 4 times a year, to wish me a Happy Mother’s Day, Thanksgiving (even though he is Navajo) Christmas and at random. We have met several times. He is healthy and grateful. He called me last month when he lost his second son. We are family. I grieve with his loss and mine.
I awake and while my morning mind clears itself and innocence vanishes, I remember he is gone. I put it aside and continue with gratitude for my life now and that I had a son named Trenton, his memory and the people he saved.
Please sign up to be an organ donor.
Rosina
June 29, 2020
I dreamt of a forest lane with sunlight filtering toward the end. You appeared to me as the exuberant boy of yesterday. "Mom Mom Mom come here!" You clasped my hand and we walked toward that light. At the road's end there was beach and an ocean in front of us. We sank down onto the sand and sat. With whispered awe you said, "See Mom, I can go anywhere now."
You would have been 40 today. You are the wind, earth, and water now. My 40 year old stretch marks and I will celebrate you.
Trent Wright 1980-2005 Artwork by his Mom.
May 15, 2020
15 years ago you left us here to figure out this life without you. Through the tears, smiles and gratitude of your memory, I hope we have all made you proud. Missing you my boy.
Trent at 24
June 29, 2019
Today you would have been 39 years old. You didn't make it. You will be 24 years old forever. I have memories of you as a beautiful baby, an energetic toddler peeing on the bees, an imaginative child your StarWars and He-Man adventures, a confused adolescent trying to find your identity and and a conflicted teenager still trying to find your identity. Our abbreviated family (Taylor, you and I) survived your ADHD! They are just memories now. Our time together had some magic and joy and then there was some troublesome and confused years. Even if you had survived, as with any family, that time is gone.
I was so proud of the young man you were becoming. You strived to find your niche in life with kindness and a caring heart. And then you died. You got on an ATV and crashed. It was so random. I always told you and your sister that life was not fair. It is really hard for me not to go there sometimes.
After 14 yrs, the world seems less cruel to keep going on. The pain of grief becomes different. I ache when I realize I have not future with you, no more new memories to build. I miss what you would have become. I miss what we would have been. Happy Birthday to my favorite and only son.
Trent at 23
Rosina French
June 29, 2019
Micheal Maysonave
May 16, 2019
Trenton, Sweetheart, another year has passed since you left us, and yet, it seems like only yesterday. Your Mom and Mike visited with us with us this past week and we celebrated Mother's Day together; visiting with you and Grandma at the cypress tree on the bayou, leaving you a bouquet of gardenias your Mom picked from the garden. And guess what? Two dragonflies landed on the boat at that very moment. It brought to us a smile because we knew you both were with us. You are forever in my heart, Aunt Micheal
May 2, 2019
Metallica's song "Enter Sandman" came on today. I cried. This was one of your favorites as a teenager. It is also the song your sister and I sang to you when you were dying and we were giving you permission to leave us.
My thoughts go out to you in the cosmos, on this day , that would have been your 38th Birthday
Rosina French
June 29, 2018
Micheal Maysonave
May 17, 2018
Trenton, Sweetheart, today marks 13 years since you left us. On Mother's Day, Uncle JC and I took a a boat ride down the river to visit you and grandma at the cypress tree. It is comforting to sit quietly for a moment and then reminisce about you. I am feeling sad as I write this but then I see your beautiful smile and I know you are okay. Please give my daddy and grandma a hug for me.❤❤
May 14, 2018
May 15, 2018. You have been away from us for 13 years now. Time makes my grief different but its heaviness still covers me. Hope you are enjoying being everywhere my son.
I created this multimedia art piece to help me work through this. I see you with tattooed angel wings.
Aaron Carter
April 3, 2018
I just wanted to say I was thinking about my friend Trenton. Im 37 now, but I will always remember the good times we had at Catalina. Anyways, I love u bro...
January 14, 2018
Remember letter writing? Discovered a large stack of letters from me that my Mom, your Grandma kept. From the 1970s as a struggling student at NAU, sophomoric thoughts about life, new love, marriage to your Dad, to the 1980s as a new, lonely, scared mother of a beautiful baby boy. This letter is from 1981. Trenton you were only 9 months old, I'm 24 and my Mom, your Grandma is in her mid 50s. Both Mom and you are now gone. I had a lovely time reading about you two and reliving my life with you. It made me miss you both a little less for a time.
December 25, 2017
Merry Christmas, Sweetheart. Your Mom and I are sitting here reminiscing about you and realized your last visit here was 2005, New Years weekend. You are still here in spirit and in my heart. ❤
December 24, 2017
Spending the holidays at our soul home. The moment I got off the plane, I smelled our beloved NOLA and a flood of memories came to me. Of our time together here. Watching the Saints game and one of the players caught the ball with his butt. I know you would have gotten a huge kick out of that. Visiting your tree today and remembering the day we set your ashes free and also the day we did the same with my mother, your grandmother. This could have been our first holiday with Taylor's baby added to our family. I have no doubt you would have had several kids by now with the way your biological clock was ticking. LOL. I'll be seeing you everywhere here. Happy Holidays out in the cosmos son.
Mom
Yours and Grandma's tree
Rosina French
December 24, 2017
June 29, 2017
Heading toward your soul home and where we gave the bayou most of your ashes by a lone cypress tree 12 years ago today on what would have been your 25th birthday. Today you would be 37 and so are my stretch marks. Enjoying the rust colored dragonflies dancing for me. (Did you send them?) Happy Birthday my baby boy. I know you are thrilled by Taylor's news.
Momma
May 15, 2017
My darling nephew Trenton, it's hard to believe it has been 12 years since you left us. Not a day goes by that I don't think of you. The photo of you and Uncle JC on our boat (you driving), on our fridge door, big smile on your face, gives me a smile. I imagine you hanging with Grandma, and I hear a lot of laughter. You left us with such fun memories. I love you, and miss you my boy, Aunt Micheal
May 15, 2017
I suppose when we get old enough to have things falling off, failing, hurting and painful we convince ourselves that it is our time to go. We were unprepared for your death. You were only 24. You were Golden Ponyboy. Life was just starting to happen for you and you had embraced the adventure. You left us 12 years ago. Your organs recipient called me for Mother's Day to thank us for 12 years of renewed life for him. I'm going to take a long hike today and hope you visit me as a big blue dragonfly again. Until then.
Micheal Maysonave
September 10, 2016
Sweet Nephew, am thinking of you as I often do, especially tonight, because the Saints are playing their first game of the season tomorrow. You adopted New Orleans as your second city, and became a Saint's fan. It seems like only yesterday that we were together watching the game and later took a ride on the bayou. You are always in my thoughts darlin. You are always in my heart. Aunt Micheal
June 29, 2016
Happy 36th Birthday my son! We sang to you around a big cookie with ice cream and a candle.
It is not unusual for adult children to not be around their Mom for all their birthdays. Distance, other commitments. Then I remember that I belong to the unnamed club. When your parents die you are an orphan, when your spouse dies you become a widow/widower. They have not named our club. It is too devastating to name. In my club we still celebrate birthdays and we get the added bonus of recognizing the day you died. Neither is filled with the frivolity of endless time.
Friends and some family help me through these moments. I am thankful for them. I am thankful that I have the memory of you for 36 years of my life.
Mom
May 15, 2016
After eleven years, my son, I'm still with this page for you. Not at home, nor feeling well, I could not plan something philanthropic or spiritual to commemorate this day compared to all the others days that I leave behind as the days without you in my life.
I shared the day with a brother and sister whose relationship are delightfully new in my life now. I wish you were here, they would love your humor and charm. Irish pub and Irish beer. Memories shared of you. (Aunt Cia was there also).
Andrew and I texted. Dew is 15 now! Texting was not around when you left us, nor was Facebook. I see that your friends miss you. They post pictures of you looking impossibly young and having a great time. We need age progression photos because you cannot party hardy at 36. Oh wait, yes YOU can. Party on Trenton.
Love you to the heavens and back,
Mom
May 15, 2016
Seriously son, I never thought eleven years would go by and I would still keep this page for you. I was not home nor feeling well, so I could not do something philanthropic or spiritual. I did know that I had to do something different to mark this day as unique among all the others days that I mark as my life without you.
I shared the memory of you and the day with a brother and sister whose relationship has been a delightful addition to my life. I regret you did not know this uncle and aunt. They would have enjoyed your humor. Irish pub and Irish beer May 15th. (Aunt Cia was there also)
Andrew and I texted. Dew is 15 now! I don't think texting was around when you left us, nor was Facebook. But I can see that your friends still miss you. They keep posting pictures of you all so very young and having a good time. We need age progression pictures because you can't party hardy when you are 36. Oh wait, yes YOU can. Party on Trenton.
Love you to the heavens and back,
Mom
May 15, 2016
Hi , my sweet boy.. I can't believe today marks 11 years that you left us. Your beautiful smile will always be in my heart. I imagine you now hanging with Grandma. Hope you two are staying out of trouble. II love you Trenton and miss you so much, Aunt MichealMaysonave
Rosina French
December 26, 2015
I took a small tumble hiking a few days ago. Scraped up my hand and knee. As I witness the healing of my wounds I remember when I was in the hospital with you. Your arms and legs were banged up pretty bad from your accident. I watched your wounds healing. I wondered how was this possible. How can your scraps and cuts heal when the doctors said you would die from the head trauma?
June 29, 2015
I used to think that you came back to me as a butterfly. Today on my hike there was a magnificent blue dragonfly hovering around me for moments. I whispered to it, "Happy Birthday."
Mom
June 29, 2015
Today we would be celebrating your 35th birthday. Your imaginary wife and my imaginary grandchildren would be gathered around your birthday cake with 35 candles in it watching you try and blow them all out. Beer would be involved. Happy Birthday Trent.
Mom
Lori
May 29, 2015
Every time I see a basketball hoop I think of you, Taylor & I playing the game horse. I think of you every time when I see a rose bush. Our trip to Tucson we saw the largest rose bush. Ever time I see or hear about the Bio Dome I think of you. Every time I see a guinea pig I think of you! I think his name was Willie! I enjoyed watching you & your sister while mom was working. Trenton I think about you all the time! I sure do miss you & love you!
May 16, 2015
I can't hardly believe it's been 10 years since you left us. I see your smiling face every time I think of you and believe that you are okay. I see you with an audience of our loved ones and you are making them laugh. You definately have your Mom's since of humor. And yet, I sit here with tears in my eyes because I miss you so much. Aunt Micheal
May 15, 2015
Your mom and I were pregnant at the same time and you were born within a month of my son, Jacob. We took you both to see Santa your first Christmas. I still have the photos...one of Jacob on the precipice of fear while sitting on Santa's knee, and one of you in absolute anguish. You were crying so hard, we could see the back of your throat. I'll have that memory forever and I smile. Precious boys.
Mom
May 15, 2015
10 years. A decade. You left us on this earth without you. As you said in my dream, "you can go anywhere you want now." You are with me always. Mom
March 28, 2015
You became a part of my dream the other night. Without words you somehow conveyed to me that you were not happy being dead. I frantically forced myself to wake up. I was trying to scream. I must have let out some noise, because the dog I keep dear to me to help me grieve your absence woke up. I pulled her close to me and hope it was only a bad dream.
With the ten year anniversary of your death, my subconscious may be betraying me.
Mom
Mom
November 14, 2014
I got blindsided today with the new Honda commercial. It has Skeletor talking up the Honda car and trying to run over He-Man. That brought a flood of memories when you were a boy playing with those silly action figures. So I sit here crying over a Honda commercial.
Jessica, Taylor and Mom
July 1, 2014
I do not know why my post of June 29th did not make it past the Legacy folks. I will try again. June 29th would have been your 34th birthday. Taylor and I meet Jessica G today. The last time I saw her she was curled up on the floor sobbing at Good Sam. She moved to Indiana after you left us. Totally ironic that she was in town today for the first time since that awful day in May 2005. I am so proud of the lovely lady and wonderful mother that she became. As you would have been also. Miss you my boy.
June 29, 2014
Trenton sweetheart, today would be your 34th birthday. It seems like only yesterday that we celebrated your birthdays at our home in New Orleans when you visited us every summer. I still see you and Taylor swimming in our pool and playing games. You seem to be having such fun. I see you blowing out your birthday candles at our kitchen counter, big smile on your face. And then we would do one of your favorite things, a movie or maybe fishing. I believe you are having a wonderful day up there with grandma. Today we will pass your cypress tree and wish you a Happy Birthday. We miss you you and love you so much, uncle JC and Aunt Micheal
May 21, 2014
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April 18, 2014
I was driving home from work today, listening to the radio. I got some bad reception when the song on 96.3 faded out, I think it was an Aerosmith song. Static and then very clearing a young child sang to me, "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are gray, you'll never know dear how much I love you, please con't take my sunshine away." You sang this to me when you were very young. Twenty years later, I sang that to you in the hospital when you lay dying. Just another one of those take my breath away moments. I miss you.
Mom
November 26, 2013
The movie Break Point was one of your favorites when you were a little dude. I remember you named your pet rat Bode after Swayze's character. It has been on in my work break room on non consecutive day and at different hours, at different points in the movie for a week now. Do you need me to think of you when I have never stopped love?
Mom
Aunt Cia and I sharing you with Mount Shannon Lake.
October 8, 2013
Trenton, Just back from fulfilling the last promise I made to you. We took some of your ashes to Ireland. There is now a part of you at McNamara's Pub in Scarriff, Mount Shannon Lake, Peppers Pub in Feacel, Doolin Cliffs, Cliffs of Moher, The Parnell Pub in Cork, Ryan's Pub in Cobh, Goosers Pub in Ballina, The creek off Connemara Bridge (The Quiet Man was shot there) and
at an old Abbey in Quin. There were many glasses of Guinness tipped in your honor. Rest in Peace in Ireland now my boy.
August 9, 2013
Hi Trenton my boy. Thinking of you today. The Saints have their pre season game tonight. They are looking good. Yep, it's dat time again. It's time to get Crunk! Who Dat. I think of you every day. I love you sweetheart. Aunt Micheal
Debbie Perkins
June 29, 2013
I remember u Trent playing soccer with my son Nic and running wild in my house at our very fun credit union parties. u Nick chase and dane would swim until the wee hours of the morning. I miss u. Nic talks about things he remembers when u all were such good friends. love to ur whole family.
June 29, 2013
33 years ago this morning you made me a first time mom. How I miss calling you and wishing you a Happy Birthday. I will forever miss the wishes over Superman, HeMan and Spiderman cakes. We have a simple carrot cake today and Aunt Cia, Mike and I will be wishing you a Happy Birthday out in the cosmos. You don't need a homemade super hero cape to fly anymore sweetheart.
JoMama
Mom
May 14, 2013
Hey Trent! I lost the direct link to your site and shockingly there are several Trenton Wright's that died around the time you did. That made me sad. Other people missing their Trenton Wright's. To the point, tomorrow will be 8 yrs since you left planet earth. I want to be with you alone tonight because I feel strong now, the day before you left me and tomorrow I will be my usual bucket of emotional need and too many people will be around congesting my thoughts. Some purple irises I planted several years ago with your ashes finally bloomed today. They bloomed white. Several yrs later and white?!
These 8 yrs have gone by fast. Not as fast as eternity but I have about 30 yrs left here and looking at those 3 decades without you and only the memory of you seem like eternity. I feel for Taylor because she has so much longer to deal with life without you.
Everyone moves on. Your death has forced me to face my life. I finally found my happy place. Here in Pine, alas a place we never shared, but I see you everywhere. I celebrate your life, our life together, my memories. My sweet boy. Miss you.
January 1, 2013
Another year without you. We moved and I have been unpacking boxes long ago forgotten. Each reveals shards of memory of you as a baby or adult. The memories still bring tears. 2013 let more healing come through please.
Mom
November 14, 2012
You visited me last night. I was trying to go to sleep in a strange place and my mind wandered within aware and that pre-sleep space. There was tendrils of memory sneaking into this state. You were there in the bed dying. And then it hit me again that you were dead. I would never see you again alive. I kept telling myself to stop, stop thinking about it. Make these memories go away right now. Mercifully they did and I fell asleep but woke up this morning very aware of those thoughts. I miss you so much.
Mom
June 29, 2012
Today you would have turned 32 years old. I imagine that by now you would be married to the love of your life, possibly made me a grandmother. A blue eyed blonde little boy with a raspy voice that would be the spitting image of you. You would be the best dad and husband. (Just like I taught you;^). You would be working at a job that was not exactly your dream but you do it for your family. Yes, you with a family.
Happy Birthday Trent. Love Mom
Rest in Peace my darling boy and favorite Mommy.
Ina French
May 19, 2012
Rest in Peace my baby and Mommy
Ina French
May 15, 2012
Mom
May 15, 2012
My darling Trent,
Grandma's ashes are with you now on the St. Francis river, at your tree. It gives me a small amount of comfort that she is now with you. Today marks the 7th anniversary of your death. Life marches on but it is still not the same. I still feel your absence, less devastating with each year but ever present.
We did a cool thing this year. We walked the French Quarter, mostly Bourbon St and each family member had a random act of kindness card in your name and were instructed to do just that. We know you would enjoy us buying beers for people or tipping the street performers. You were very much there with us.
Auntie Peanut Brooks
August 23, 2011
Dearest Big Guy, Grandma has left us to be with you. She insisted that when she passed, make sure her ashes would be with you. On September 9th, I will have a mass said for her and her ashes blessed. She loved you so much. You are both sadly missed but I know you are together and, it brings me great confort to know that we will someday be together and you and I can do that "White Man's Overbite" jig we did one Thanksgiving day. I love you Trent. You are always in my heart, my thoughts and my prayers. Take care of grandma.
August 10, 2011
My darling son, your Grandma passed away this morning. Before she went, she told us "I want to be with Trent, read to him and retell the story about "peeing on the bees." I don't know what happens when the earth is through with us but I hope you and Grandma are together. We are all assured that her passage was made easier because she wanted to be with you. As she wished, her ashes will be with yours on the Francis River in Louisana. You and Grandma should be laughing and having a great time like you did when you were a little boy. I miss you guys.
August 4, 2011
Trent,
I've sat staring at this same screen for 6 years now, and have probably logged a thousand hours triing to come up with something to say and couldn't put into words how I feel. Until a couple days ago. When everything you ever said to me finnally made sense.
I heard my four month old son laughing,he was laying in his crib in his room by himself and for a split second I heard YOUR laugh, so I ran into his room and there he was just laughing his little butt off like someone was tickling him. So I picked him up and though he was still smiling he had stopped laughing, then I walked with him in my arms past the picture I have of you hanging in my living room, and I noticed when he looked at it , he started laughing uncontrolably again, and I knew at that very moment that though he never got to meet his namesake physically that he knows you and that you are his angel like my godfather is mine. We love you Trent and you are and always be my best friend.
Samuel James AND Trenton C. DiMickele.
Mom
June 29, 2011
Happy 31st birthday my boy. I am heading toward NOLA and your tree. I will see you later tonight with some of your family. We will be together soon to share our Trenton stories. Hope you can catch our act. Love you
Mom
Lynne Warden
May 17, 2011
Rosina and Trent, I remember the fun times. I remember Christina's 8th birthday party and you helped all the little kids hit the pinata. I remember your gorgeous eyes and smile,especially when your mom walked in the room. I remember your shyness when all us rambunctious Frenchs' got together and your willingness to be coaxed into the fun. I remember what an awesome big brother and son you were. I remember the joy you brought to your family and to me personally. I remember YOU. You are now an angel, please take care of your mother. I love her and worry about her. Beautiful boy/man!
Love, Cousin Lynne
Mom
May 16, 2011
Trent, It looks like my post for your 6 year memorial did not make it past the Legacy censors. So I will try again and this time make it innuocous. I must have leaked too much passion.
Every anniversary year I volunteer to do something to get my mind in a positive place and not have that mobius band thing going on about the process of your death. This year I coerced your Aunt Cia and I to clear mesquite brush for prairie dogs with the AZ Game & Fish. It was hard manual labor for me. It took my mind off THAT day. There were ATVs hauling the bigger branches all around me. It did not upset me. I am getting better.
Taylor put some of your ashes in a silver tear drop medallion for me for Mother's Day and I wear it now and touch it frequently for comfort. Still miss you and think of you several times a day. The good days, I can feel you in my presence.
April 7, 2011
My love, Thank you for helping me pick out the new flooring. Showing your picture the flooring samples was possibly not what you had in mind but your voice inside my head sealed the deal.
I am writing to you tonight to let you know that I took the higher ground and let the people I work with know that I could no longer be with them. Your guidance helped me make that decision. I need you to find me another job "home".
You and Taylor were always at the mercy of my jobs. Most of them brought no joy but a paycheck. I need joy. Guide me through this next venture.
Love you my angel.
Lisa Black
October 5, 2010
Hello:
I came across this page purely by accident but someone once told me, there are no accidents.
I had a dream about Trent about two days ago. I decided to go a google search to see if I could find him. We went to junior high together and I always remember him to this day. He made me laugh all the time. I remember once during lunch time, I was sitting at my desk. I was having a particularly bad day. I think he sensed it because I heard him say, "hey Lisa!" I looked over and he had an entire piece of string cheese in his mouth and he was chewing it. I said, "What is it?" Then he replied, with the piece of string cheese in his mouth, "Stupid rat!" as if he swallowed an entire rat. I laughed out loud and he used to do that all the time. I guess he knew it would cheer me up. We also used to walk home with a bunch of friends after school. I always looked forward to it.
I am so sorry for your loss and I was very sad when I came across his obituary. I was hoping he was doing well and I am sure in the afterlife, he is happy. I can see he lived a full life. I will always be thinking of him and all of you. He was a blessing in the short time I knew him.
Warmest regards,
Lisa
Mom French
August 11, 2010
I find that my life has been divided into only two distinct time periods. (I don't think about time before you were born.) Time when we were together and the time after May 15, 2005. Time frames are meticulously put into one of the buckets. I don't know why I am compelled to do this but I seek out dates and catergorize. I looked at an old check register and searched for what I was doing prior to your death, then after and I was surprised that I went on, paying bills. Life does go on without you but you are with me always.
stacey m
June 29, 2010
trent.... had only met you once many moons ago...when tay and i were kids!! but happy bday...your family loves you very much!!!
Mom
June 29, 2010
Happy Birthday Trent. Today you would have been 30 years old. No longer at the cusp of young adulthood and starting the ride toward mature older man. I had hoped great things for you at this time in your life and so I am departing from reality and know in my heart you had accomplished great things and that I still look far too young to have a 30 year old son. We have a birthday cake for you and will keep our tradition of wishing you a happy birthday. If we can't have you here we will just eat cake.
Desiree McDonald
May 19, 2010
Trenton,
I spent the 15th thinking about you.
Always such a comedian.
Your Mom misses you very much.
Much love.
Teresa
May 18, 2010
As alwalys I send you love Ina,
May peace and understanding be with you. I think of you often.
May his memories bring you joy.
Lynne Warden
May 17, 2010
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil Gibran
Trent was a delight,treasure your memories.
With deep respect and love, Lynne
Michele Maysonave
May 17, 2010
Trenton,
I only remember you as a little boy, beautiful and wide-eyed and innocent. I wish I'd known you as an adult. We always think there's time...
Love and best wishes to Ina, Taylor, and Mike. I hope your memories bring you comfort.
Michele
Michele Maysonave
May 17, 2010
Trenton,
I remember you only as a little boy, gorgeous and big-eyed and innocent, with your whole life before you. I wish I'd known you as an adult. We always think there's time...
Love and best wishes to Ina and Mike and Taylor. I hope your memories bring you comfort.
Jessica Gabbard
May 17, 2010
This is beautiful, I wish I would have known this outlet to reach you has been here the whole time. There are so many things I am feeling and thinking right now. But I guess the only one that really matters is that you know how much I love and miss you. You and I shared so many wonderful moments together and I often think we will get it all back. I know you hear me when I talk to talk to you. And maybe even taunt me when you find it necessary. Whatever the cause for the visit i welcome them and look forward to our next one.
Trenton, you were and always will be my best friend and my true love. I have had to find help in dealing with it all, they said it would get easier, and that once I started making new memories it would all start to fade. Let me tell you, they were wrong and I am so glad they were. I never want our time together to fade and become some distant memory. I five years later, still feel my heart crush as it did when I walked in to the hospital.
Where ever you are, what ever you are doing, always remember I love you and never for one second stopped thinking about you.
Love you with all my heart.
Jessica
Mom
May 16, 2010
Trent, Another year and we arrive at the 5 year mark since you left us. We were all together yesterday and we charged our glasses, set up an empty chair and toasted to you my boy. I made the toast very short, but sweet because I did not want to start crying again as I did off and on all day.
I found Jessica 1! I have not seen her since the hospital. She moved out of state right after you left the planet earth, has a beautiful baby girl, she is going to graduate from college this year. Still with all that - she misses you.
I planted shamrocks yesterday to mark the day.
Rita, Ray's wife called to make sure I was alright. It fills my heart that they remembered us in that way.
You are very much still a part of our lives.
Mom
March 25, 2010
Trent, Giving birth to you was so visceral. My thoughts tonight. I remembered the physical pain and the memories of all my senses on that morning. My first child and its fears. It was over in a few hours and when you were given to me to hold...The memories of your death are more visceral and painful. The finality of it still eludes me. I forget you are gone sometimes and then I remember that fateful weekend. All my senses remember. The Saints won!
January 13, 2010
My Baby, New Orleans Saints are playing the Arizona Cardinals this Saturday! This would be a tough one for me if I was not going to be true to you. THE SAINTS! Trent, we will win my boy and you will be with me for the only football game that I will watch. Love you. Mom
Ray and Rita and me
Mom
November 5, 2009
Trent, I met Ray today. He is your liver and kidney recipient. Trent, he is the kindest gentlemen. He is a rancher from New Mexico. In one of my letters I told him that I was a volunteer at AZ Donor Network and he and his wife showed up there today to surprise me. AzDNA called me and I rushed over to meet Ray and his wife Rita. I was beyond rational emotion. You, sweetheart, gave him back a life. They are so grateful. They lost a son in a car accident before 2005 and we have so much in common. When I hugged him, I almost did not let go. It was like hugging you.
Taylor Mealer(Wright)
October 28, 2009
I write to you today , I know that you cant read this but it helps with my emotional outlet. Some days I wake up and think to myself, "o'h man I cant wait to tell trent about this " and then it dawns on me I cant. I forget some days that you are no longer with us and it depress me. I hope that wherever you are your seeing all the greatness in my life and how thankful I am for having you in my life thought short lived, you make me want to be a better person, trent I miss you so some days I ask for some sort of sign that you are ok and that you give me strenght. I love ya bro
Mom
June 29, 2009
Happy Birthday my boy. You would have been 29 today. Rest in Peace.
Desiree Komar McDonald
May 16, 2009
When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. When you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
– Tibetan Buddhist saying
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience
– Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Desiree Komar McDonald
May 16, 2009
Dearest Trenton & Family,
I have so many things to say but can't seem to put all the words together correctly. Your Mom, sister, family & friends miss you terribly. You touched so many lives. I'm so sorry your Mom & I lost track to each other through the teen tears. I met you as a sweet, handsome 3 yo. little boy and knew you for several years. My thoughts & prayers go out to all of you.
Trent, I've thought about you everyday since reconnecting with your Mom a few month ago. Your mom is an incredible woman. If possible, give her a hint that you are okay .
Laura Edgar
May 15, 2009
It was wonderful to see the photos of Trent, having never met him. He was a good looking kid! But of course, my beautiful Rosina, you would make a beautiful child. My two little boys weren't with me yet when Trent died, and although I felt your pain then, I really feel it now that I'm a mommy. You are in my heart today, and always. xoxoxoxo
Becki Bigler-Smith
May 15, 2009
Dear Trent: You don't know who I am, but I am a friend of your mom's. She is a remarkable lady and she loves you SO VERY, VERY MUCH. I remember the day your mother called and said you had been in an accident and the prognosis was not good. It was like yesterday, I remember it so vividly. I came to the hospital right away to be with her, to hug her, to cry with her, to listen to whatever was on her mind - just to be there as a friend. She asked me if I'd like to come into the room to see you, her beautiful baby. Of course, you were every bit as handsome as she said you were!! Your mother shared so many stories with me that I felt like I knew who you were. It was so sad to see your mom hurting, god she loved you. As a matter of fact I was proud of how well I thought she was holding herself together given the circumstances. She is a very strong lady, although she may not always think so - she is a survivor - she has come a very long way over the past four years without you. How does a mother survive when they've lost a child? This is not the way I understood life to be, I thought our children buried us. God has a plan, one in which I find myself questioning ALL the time.....I believe in eternity and I know you and your mother will reunite one day, whether it be in heaven or perhaps as she wrote earlier this year, you will manifest yourself into a bird that is perched in a tree chirping away, the lucky ladybug or the beautiful butterfly that flutters on your mother's shoulder as if to give her a hug. A hug from you. God has a plan - and when he feels the time is right the two of you will reunite, but for now I know you are with her everyday in spirit. She loves you and misses you so much Trent. There is not a single day or moment that she is not thinking of you. Your family and her friends will look out for her, we all love her so much; she will be okay. I'm sure there are days where she just can't find the energy or strength to go on without you, and perhaps in time, it will be easier, I don't know. I am the mother of five boys and I don't know if time ever heals the loss of a child. Faith, prayer and the belief in eternity will provide her with comfort and strength until the day she is reunited with her baby. Rest in peace Trenton.
Lucy Burk
May 15, 2009
I can't believe it's been four years. This guest book is beautiful, I'm glad you're doing this. We miss Trenton.
May 15, 2009
Year 4 since you took your leave of us. Taylor asks why I keep leaving you messages. I know you are not there. I do this for me. It is a journal of my grief as your mother. It helps me. I spent the day doing community service instead of running off some where to get a change of scenery on this anniversary. It does help to get outside my grief and help others. I still think of you often through my days and still have to remind myself that you are dead. Far too often. Sometimes I have to get a mantra going - "He is dead, He is dead," to help me sleep at night and get me off the cerebral gerbil wheel. I am a mother who loves and lost a son and her slow recovery back from loosing innocence.
Mom
March 19, 2009
I have read and have been told by others that have lost a loved one that they believe certain things have manifested themselves as their lost loved one. Birds, ladybugs and butterflies seem to be popular. Perhaps, I missed it, or I wonder if your ADDH is still with you and you can not decide on what to come back as to give me a sign that you are with me. Knowing you it would be something outrageous that I would not miss. Perhaps you are the lizard clinging to the side of the pool that I rescued and warmed up and set scampering off, or the silly squirrel that seems to be waiting for me and peanuts when I arrive in Pine. Or perhaps it is not a tangible manifestation. Maybe you are my strength that keeps me from freaking out and staying calm through life's crisis. Maybe you are the knowledge that nothing can be any worse than losing your son. Trent focus. I will wait.
Mom French
August 20, 2008
It started with a hardboiled egg. I was having a normal Wednesday until I made the mistake of unpeeling a hard boiled egg for breakfast. There I stood over the sink at work, in innocence, gently peeling the shards away to reveal my prize. I remembered you on an Easter many years ago. Perhaps you were twelve. You were standing in front of me with your Easter basket and you asked me, "Is there a way to unhardboil an egg?" This memory started a crying jag throughout the day. Sometimes a hard boiled egg can sabatoge you.
Mom
June 29, 2008
28 years ago today I was at Flagstaff Hospital in labor with you and scared. How do I take care of a baby, what do I feed you, what if I don't do something right and I harm you? 28 years later, I am celebrating your birthday without you for the 3 rd time and I am still scared. Where are you? Are you a you anymore? Are you happy? We put some candles in a cake, wished you a happy birthday for wherever you are. Perhaps you caught our performance. Still missing you after all these years.
Trenton rests here. His tree at night
May 13, 2008
Your tree in the bayou still standing after Katrina
May 13, 2008
Mom
May 13, 2008
Thinking of you in a more visceral way today on this the 3rd anniversary of the accident that would eventually take your life two days later. I had one of my whim attacks and went home to New Orleans for a few days to see the Napoleon Exhibit and to visit your "gravesite." (Remember the whim attacks always had at least two justifications.) Saw your tree, our family and many artifacts of the late Bonaparte.
I wish I could tell you it gets easier but at the best I can say it gets different.
I have been corresponding with the recipients of some of your body parts. They are well. You gave them quality to their lives. Life, death, life.
Just returned today and before I get back into the routine of living without you, thought I'd say hey to my favoritest fella.
taylor wright
March 4, 2008
so i write to you because mom feels like you need some conversation. School is coming to a end and Im so scared Trenton i hope where ever you are you are looking out for me i miss you and i love you xoxo
taylor wright
January 2, 2008
hi brother man , so its the beginning of another new year and you are not here to share it w/ me. i really have been thinking about you and missing you alot. I saw a picture of you when you were younger and i cried . in my mind you will always be young and you never got to reach your full potential i hope wherever you are your looking out for me i love you and i will talk to you soon
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