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Gail Powell
July 12, 2025
Miss celebrating with you on your birthday.
Gail Powell
July 12, 2025
Happy Heavenly Birthday Lara.
Gail Powell
January 29, 2025
Thinking of you as our family on Earth slower gets smaller. I´m in hopes that you find joy in a special reunion with ones that join you in Heaven. Love always. Gail
Gail
January 1, 2025
Happy Heavenly New Year. I wish your positive energy and love could still brighten our world down here. Keep watching over us. Hug family members we miss.
Gail Powell
December 25, 2024
Sending Christmas love and hugs. We all continue to miss you daily. Keep watch on your Earth dwelling family members. Love always Gail.
Gail Powell
November 28, 2024
Thinking of you with loving memories and a burning candle on Thanksgiving Day 24.
Dave
November 24, 2024
Happy Anniversary baby. Thinking of you a lot. Miss you - love you.
~Dave
Jackson Rip Holmes
July 15, 2024
I continue to be THANKFUL to Lara Lynn Reiner, for helping literally restore my life, along with her husband David, in 2001 through 2004.
Dave
July 14, 2024
Happy birthday baby. I saw you the other day in the crowd. Thanks for keeping an eye on me. Miss you, love you
Gail Powell
July 13, 2024
Happy Heavenly Birthday. Hurricane threatened our sisters. Homes weren´t harmed, but trees and fences damaged. Loss of electrical power for multiple days. Happy birthday to Mama. Keep watching over us. Love you always.
Gail Powell
January 25, 2024
She´ll be forever young and beautiful with a loving heart.
Gail Powell
January 23, 2024
You´ve been heavy on my heart and mind as the anniversary of your trip to Heaven draws near. The past year of weather has been a roller coaster. We had drought which resulted in 40 year old trees dying. We´ve had ice and rain for January. We are looking forward to Spring and nicer weather. Leigh Ann has joined the remainder of the family. Y´all celebrate each other as we keep all of you alive in our memories. Love always.
David
November 23, 2023
Happy anniversary baby. Miss you.
Love always
Dave
July 12, 2023
Happy Birthday baby! Think of you all the time. You know...
Love always
Gail Powell
July 11, 2023
As your birthday draws near, my heart grows heavy. I wish to hear you sing and want to hear your voice as well as Leigh Ann, mama and daddy. No celebration for Fourth this year as grass was very dry. I missed Daddy´s brisket and the family festivities. Have a heavenly birthday with all our loved ones! We miss you all. Love Always Gail
Gail Powell
January 27, 2023
Much love for you sweet Lara. The family misses you daily. We see your innocent smile and hear you giggle and sing. As more family members pass, I can only dream that ya´ll are able to continue the joyousness in Heaven as on Earth. Love you.
Dave
January 26, 2023
Sorrow...
Jackson Rip Holmes
January 22, 2023
Dear All,
Lynn Reiner and her husband are FOREVER IN MY HEART AND SOUL.
They, and Samuel Clay Reiner, were and are ANGELS OF GOD in my life.
At a time WHEN I MOSTED NEEDED A MIRACLE IN MY LIFE, the Reiners accepted my case, enabled in significant part by Lynn, and I am sure to this day GOD played a role in this Rescue.
Lynn is part Native American Indian.
They enabled me to find and marry a Peruvian Native American Indian, and adopt her 100% Native American Indian daughter.
LYNN, THANK YOU. I OWE YOU!,
(Jackson) Rip Holmes
Dave
December 31, 2022
Happy New Year baby-
It's been a tough few months. I miss you.
Love always-
Dave
Gail Powell
December 25, 2022
Merry Heavenly Christmas sweet Lara. Heaven becomes more filled with family. The Earthlings sure do miss the love and bodily presence of y´all. The empty feeling intensifies around holidays. Love always.
Dave
November 27, 2022
Happy Anniversary Baby. Miss you every day - love you!
Gail Powell
July 12, 2022
Happy Heavenly Birthday to you sweet Lara Lynn. Love always
Dave
July 12, 2022
Happy Birthday baby! Think of you all the time.
Love always
Gail Powell
January 25, 2022
As your DOD nears, I´m never prepared for the day. Only good memories fill my brain. I guess that´s the way my brain works. I rarely dwell on the negative in life.
I hope that all my loved ones can love and communicate with one another. The family remaining on Earth send love and hugs.
Gail Powell
December 27, 2021
Dearest Lara, I´ve tried to send Christmas message for several days to no avail. I lit a candle for you Christmas Eve. Each holiday is filled with combinations of happiness and sadness. I´m old enough to know things continuously change, but nobody told me I have to like it. We all miss you terribly. Love you.
Gail Powell
November 24, 2021
A candle will be lit during Thanksgiving for you. We all love and miss you.
Dave~
November 23, 2021
Happy Anniversary Baby. Miss you - love you!
Dave
July 14, 2021
Hi baby. Sorry I missed your birthday. Mom was in the hospital in Sarasota. She passed away today at 87. She talked about you all the time. Miss you love you.
Gail Powell
July 8, 2021
Gail Powell
July 8, 2021
Gail Powell
July 8, 2021
As the fireworks gradually disappear in the neighborhood days after Independence Day, your birthday nears as does mamas and Amanda´s. Everyone sends their love. Happy heavenly birthday. You just have to be in a better place than this one folks are struggling in. Happy birthday to you Lara or as Amanda affectionately called you Lala. Take one more ride with Daddy.
Gail Powell
January 26, 2021
As the days, weeks, and years pass, you are in our hearts and mind. Our love for you is steadfast. Continue to watch over us until we are able to hold you again. Love always,
Gail
Dave
January 1, 2021
Happy New Year baby. I sure miss you.
Love~ Dave
Dave
January 1, 2021
Happy New Year baby. I sure miss you.
Love~ Dave
Gail Powell
December 26, 2020
The year 2020 has been a devastating one for many Americans. The Covid 19 virus and complications have taken many lives, both young and old. Thanksgiving and Christmas has come and gone. I see my WiFi was not successful in wishing you heavenly holidays. I personally have been blessed with good health but I have tried very hard to self quarantine when possible. As your DOD approaches, I ponder on all you have missed, some good, some bad. You are always beautiful and happy and young in my memories. I miss and love you daily.
Dave
November 23, 2020
Happy Anniversary Baby. Miss you - love you!
Gail Powell
August 2, 2020
Love and miss my baby sister Lara Lynn
YMCA sing along
Gail Powell
July 12, 2020
Lara danced and sang from a toddler age.
Dec 05
Gail Powell
July 12, 2020
Beautiful couple!
Dave
July 12, 2020
Happy Birthday- Love you miss you!!!
Dec 05 Clints wedding
Gail Powell
July 11, 2020
LeighAnn unable to attend. It was below zero that day. Lara got a jacket at the airport. Who needs a coat in Florida??!!
Gail Powell
July 11, 2020
Happy birthday to you sweet Lara. Tell mama happy birthday too. Spoke to Sidney Maxey. He was with us at your birth. Ethan shot fireworks for you. Hes a big 12 year old now. Daddys house sold sooo lots of missing tangible items are gone. Love you forever.
Gail Powell
January 26, 2020
You are forever young in my heart and mind. I still miss you daily and think of your giggle, always changing hairstyles, songs, poems, stories and movie quotes we shared. Love always!
Gail
Gail Powell
January 22, 2020
Sooo sorry you arent here to celebrate Daves birthday.
December 25, 2019
Hi baby- Merry Christmas. Spent it with Mom and Dad, Clay and Hildi. Much time spent looking at pictures. Good memories - too few. Love you! Miss you!
Dave
Gail Powell
December 24, 2019
It's another Christmas Eve. The family is celebrating in different parts of the world. I long for the days when all of us were together. The older we get, the larger the families get while it seems the core unit unravels. I love and miss you daily. Today I listened to some of your favorite songs and recall how we recited parts of favorite movies. Merry heavenly Christmas.
Gail
Gail Powell
July 13, 2019
Hope your birthday was heavenly. You and mama can celebrate hers today. Baby Amanda turned 33. She always wishes you were here to shoot remaining Fourth of July fireworks. I need to put out new decor at y'alls gravesites. I've lost touch with cemetery caretakers that helped me do that. You always keep that innocent face and remain forever young.
Love Always,
Gail
July 12, 2019
Happy Birthday baby. Still miss you and think about you all the time. Gonna make it to Mississippi this year - promise. You nephew Mark got married a few weeks ago and went to our stomping grounds in Canada for a honeymoon. Pix and a lot of memories. Quebec, PEI, Cape Breton. Miss those road trips with you.
Love you, miss you
Dave
January 28, 2019
Remember the good times
Peace
Dave
January 27, 2019
Gail Powell
January 26, 2019
We all think about you daily. This is the anniversary of our loss. Heather and Leigh care for one another. Kay is ill. Lisa holds her family together. I am enjoying my family. I have small ups and downs but nothing compares to folks I see suffering. Clint constantly makes me proud.His family is wonderful. He is certainly a parent combo. Linda caring for aunt. We've seen Dave, Tyler, Mark's birthdates come and go, along with Ron,s DOD. Love always. Gail
Gail Powell
January 1, 2019
I held a sparkler high in the sky. If you felt the warmth, it came from my heart not the fireworks. I had double peas, greens and pork and cornbread for our future. Gradually we let our wall down and learn to love another again just hoping they are not snatched from our presence. Hold all those that reside with you in Heaven. Linda is still lost without Ron by her side. I get it. It took me 10 years to move into another relationship. This month only makes two years of loneliness for her. Continue to watch over us. Plenty of our mentors are with you.
Love Always
Gail
Gail Powell
December 29, 2018
Another candle lit for you on Christmas Eve. We miss you daily. Every stray kitty I see, I feed just in case you can't take care of from Heaven. I discovered a Christmas time photo of you, but no date so can't narrow down the year. We will be loving you and thinking of you this coming new year just as we have done in all years past. I feel sure that every person you shared your love with experiences the same loss that I feel.
Love always Gail
Leigh Reedy
December 27, 2018
Lara was/is our family's most special gift.
Time ticks on by the clocks & calendar, yet Lara memories remain strong & seemingly "yesterday".
It breaks my heart again to read Gail's & Dave's few, but meaningful words.
Life is such a puzzling "game".
To have someone to love & to love ya' back...
Then...the person is "gone", at least in this particular earthly reality.
It is our CHOICE to keep Lara "alive" as ever in our hearts & memories.
A pleasant choice it is, when we so easily can recall the feelings & mind's images of our precious Lara. She left a wonderful "imprint" on all of us in that first 9 months & following 41 years.
Many smiling recollections can fill our hearts with grateful joy at having been lucky enough to have "Baby Lara" in our lives, however too brief it feels as the sorrow & heart ache, even these years later, continue to sneak up on us without warning & try to crowd out the distant sound of her laughter & the way she moved, & how her mind worked, her sense of humor, her listening understanding...her love...
Yet the love Lara created with us will last past all eternity.
Nothing can change that.
We all still HAVE THAT.
Even as another holiday passes, & the void cannot be ignored...
Dave
November 23, 2018
Happy Anniversary Baby. Thinking of you a lot. Miss you - love you
Gail Powell
July 13, 2018
Give mama a birthday hug in heaven.
Gail Powell
July 12, 2018
Happy birthday to you sweet Lara. I'm thinking of you while on vacation in Branson Missouri. I sit 5 hours in a time share presentation. My favorite memory was getting to visit you when traveling in the RV. Love always, Gail
July 12, 2018
Lara- Happy Birthday! Another year without you. Still miss you and think about you all the time. So many fun things to do that I can't do with you.
Love you - miss you
~Dave
Gail Powell
February 8, 2018
Another long year of your passing. Politics sucks. World filled with flu and deaths. Retirement is wonderful. Marriage is comfortable. Sisters still suffering but strong from hurricanes. Those who loved you, love and miss you still. Crazy smart phone prevented me from adding messages a couple of times, but you are always just a heartbeat away.
Gail Powell
November 25, 2017
Another Thanksgiving come and gone. Great fun, family and food but missed your face and Daddy with his all night brisket. Love you daily. I wish you could play with Ethan and enjoy kid games again.
Dave
November 24, 2017
Hi baby- Another anniversary without you!!! Miss you - love you.
Gail Powell
July 13, 2017
Singing happy birthday to you and to mama. We will send up fireworks this Saturday for y'all at our annual celebration for you two and Amanda and Andrea. Love and miss you daily. I wish you could sing a few more tunes and chuckle over old movies like My Cousin Vinny and Overboard. Love forever.
Gail
July 12, 2017
Hi babe- Happy Birthday! I'll light a candle and you blow it out. Miss you- love you.
~Dave
Gail Powell
July 13, 2016
Missed you again on your birthday and on mama's birthday. Baby Amanda turned 30 this year. I often hear your whisper or a song and long to talk to you. I have Sooo much to tell you. Maybe you have all knowledge.
Love always,
Gail
Dave
July 12, 2016
I woke up this morning with a dream of our first date ... and it is your birthday. I miss you a lot and wish we had had more time together. So many things to do and see... Happy Birthday.
Love always
Gail Powell
January 26, 2016
Another Christmas and New Year without you. I stay busy. Leigh and I had a good cry, no help, for the emptiness left within. Love you so much.
Gail Powell
November 26, 2015
Wish you were here to celebrate Thanksgiving! Grab Mama, Daddy and Mark for me and hug tightly!
Dave
November 23, 2015
Happy Anniversary baby. So many memories. Really miss you.
Love Always-
Gail Powell
July 13, 2015
Mama's B day today. Yours yesterday. Played Amazing Grace for y'all and have a candle going in memory. Love always. You each had firework sparkler too!
Dave
July 12, 2015
Happy Birthday baby! Miss you a lot!
Love always
Dave
July 12, 2015
Happy Birthday baby- Miss you a lot.
Love alway
July 2, 2015
Lynn Reiner helped our community, and helped me, tremendously, and unforgettably,
Rip Holmes
Gail Powell
July 1, 2015
Watch fireworks with me. You truly are independent.
Gail Powell
January 31, 2015
We all miss you terribly.
Gail Powell
December 24, 2014
Lots of love.
Gail Powell
December 24, 2014
Wish you were here!
Gail Powell
November 26, 2014
In the event that Thanksgiving Day gets busy, know the energy from the burning candle represents our love for you. Hug Mama and Daddy and Mark for me.
Dave
November 24, 2014
Lara-
Happy Anniversary. Thinking of you a lot. Miss you - love you.
gordon sanders
August 6, 2014
Heard amazing grace in my head today... Not sure why but thought how wonderful it sounded when you sang it. thanks for reminding me.
Gail Powell
July 14, 2014
Missed you again for your birthday lil girl. We had a lovely water balloon/gun fight at our place and had another fireworks show following. Hope you heard me singing afterwards happy birthday to you, mama, Amanda and Andrea. Wonder why so many of my best loved were born in July? Love and miss you every day.
Gail Powell
January 26, 2014
I continue to love and miss you daily. I wish that you could see all the dynamics of our family. Then again, maybe you can see from a different perspective. I have the best grandson in the world. He gives me more pleasure than anything else.
Love Forever,
Gail
Tanea Harris
September 26, 2013
My dear sweet friend,
I so miss you and our chats. So much has changed in the past few years that I want share with you. You will be pleased to know that I am a much better cook these days. Miss and love you.
Tanea
Gail Powell
July 12, 2013
Happy Birthday Lara. Headed to final resting place for daddy. Yall party!!
Dave
July 12, 2013
Happy Birthday- Love you miss you
Gail Powell
June 25, 2013
Our sweet daddy passed on June 8. The next memorial we have planned for you and daddy will be a celebration of your lives upon our mama's birthdate in Mississippi. Clear a path and light the way. We all love and miss all of you.
Gail
Gail Powell
February 18, 2013
Missed you on Valentine's Day. Every lil
stuffed cat reminded me of you.
Gail Powell
January 27, 2013
This has been a most difficult year. Illness follows daddy. All the kids are growing up and leaving their nests. We received nice visits from Leigh and Dave. We watch healing processes only to see new problems arise. School children are not as kind, respectable or lovable as I used to remember. My children no longer depend upon me and I love handsome Ethan to pieces. Christmas happiness brought some sadness and illness. I look forward to sunshine, spring and flowers. Keep over us sweet angel as I only remember goodness when I see your image or speak your name.
Dave
January 26, 2013
Another year without your hugs, smiles and laughs. Miss you...
Dave
December 25, 2012
Merry Christmas Lara. Miss you - love you - not so fun without you.
Dave
November 23, 2012
Lara-
Happy Anniversary. Thinking of you a lot. Miss you - love you.
DAVID
August 29, 2012
Hi sweetheart. Thinking about you, miss you....miss you...
Gail Powell
July 13, 2012
Dear Lara,
You and Mama wish each other happy birthday. Amanda still wishes you could share birthday cake and party with her.
Hug Mama for all of us.
Gail
Dave
July 12, 2012
Happy Birthday sweetheart. I miss you. We all miss you.
Love always-
Leigh Reedy
July 12, 2012
Earlier this week, while having a restless headache night...
I dreamed Mama was talking & we were laughing as she sat on the end of my bed, helping me forget my pain. Suddenly an eager knock was at my door & Mama ran down the hall to throw open the front door. As the many bells that hang on my door chimed different, happy chimes, at the same time - Mama's voice echoed up the hallway and I heard her cry out in ecstasy -
"LAAARRRAAA!"
I woke up suddenly, sat up, and with a nice feeling immediately noticed my head was not hurting!
I am glad they got to have each other for "each other's Birthday presence".
baby lara
Gail Powell
July 12, 2012
Happy Birthday Sweet Lala,
Although my big butt and belly did not need it, I had a giant piece of chocolate cake today in your memory. That was me singing birthday songs to you "off-key" this morning.
Love you,
Gail
Gordon Sanders
July 5, 2012
Since it was July 4th, I thought I would send you a quick note. Thinking about those great times spent shooting fireworks at my parents house, enjoying the pool, and skating on the fourth. Always in my memories, glad that we had moments to share. The "flag" jacket is always looked great on you. I hope that you enjoyed looking at the fireworks from above. Best...Gordon
Gail Powell
July 4, 2012
We are sending pretty fireworks and lighting some sparklers in your memory.
Miss you this independence day. I suppose you have ultimate independence free from all deadlines.....
Love always,
Gail
Leigh Reedy
May 31, 2012
Dear Everyone.
Time is relative. Finally I read this Guest Book.
Dear Every ONE that ever opened a door for Lara & saw her smile that made your day.
Dear Every ONE that glanced over to see a stranger spot a kitty & give it a passing kiss along her way & maybe heard her do a little cat sound. Those of you that saw & heard & quickly forgot...still were changed a little by Lara. And reassured that Love can flow, that innocence can survive into young adulthood.
Dear acquaintances that fell in love with her that one & only meeting - like when she "made" me bring my speech class to meet her for dinner that last semester class night... "Thank You" for coming & letting me see you all adore my baby sister.
Dear long mirror in Mama & Daddy's bedroom. I still see you in my mind. A young girl in the dim dusk holding that tiny baby against her chest. Dear me.
I held my baby Lara so fragile at the time & with all my being, prayed she would not be in pain & be able to live "forever". I got my wish in a way, I think. No feeling was ever so close & loving as that long, long time I held "our" baby that evening - dusk into darkness, never wanting to put her down...as she was branded in my heart & soul. As I finally put her down in the dark baby bed, I felt an emptiness not unlike the evening I got the news that she was no longer alive. But...still with us, it seems... because I still feel her in my heart & soul. I see & hear & feel her ways & personality in my own baby girl - almost grown up now...yet still a cross between Gail & Lara. All the good stuff.
Dear Every ONE. Lara is still "alive" - just smile & feel your hearts or blow a kiss as you pass a kitty along Life's path...With Love, Leigh
Gail Powell
January 26, 2012
Sure do miss you. Elvis won't have anything after Dave gets new hips! Little angel,
keep watching over all of us
and keep Mama company. I
think I can hear ya'll laughing and singing.
Love forever,
Gail
Dave
January 26, 2012
It doesn't seem like three years baby. Miss you - love you
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