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Kelly Martz Obituary
KELLY ANN, age 21. A Student at The University of Florida, formerly of N.E. Phila. Suddenly on May 18, 2004. Beloved daughter of Sheryl A. (nee Tilley) and George W. "Rusty" Martz, Jr. Devoted sister of Dana Martz, loving granddaughter of Shirley A. and the late Austin Tilley and the late Dolores T. (nee McNulty) and the late George W. Martz; also survived by numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. Relatives, friends and all the organizations of which she was a member are invited to attend her viewing and funeral Sat. 8 to 10 A.M. at JOHN F. FLUEHR AND SONS INC., 3301-15 Cottman Ave. Funeral Mass Our Lady of Calvary Church, 11 A.M. Rite of Committal, Sunset Memorial Park. No viewing Fri. evening. In lieu of flowers, contributions in her memory may be made for Dana Martz continuing education, c/o Ray Martz, 1210 Hunt Seat Dr., Lower Gwynedd, PA 19002.
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May 18, 2021
I can't believe its been 17 years. In many ways it seems like a lifetime ago and yet it feels just like yesterday that you were still here laughing and dancing. Every April 19th and May 18th I spend the entire day thinking about cherished memories and the "what ifs". What would you be like now? Defending justice in the legal system? A stay at home mom? Your dreams were big and your heart was bigger. You were going to do it all and be the best at it. I try to live in ways that incorporate your zest for life and passion for encouraging people in honor of you. I miss you every day and know one day I'll get to see you again. So I grieve, but it is with the hope that there is an eternal meeting place where you are living your best life. Until we meet again my beautiful friend.
Shayna
September 20, 2011
Hey there MyKel, It is crazy to think that its been 7 years since I've heard your voice or seen your smiling face. I miss you like crazy still. I wish I could share all of the things Ive been through with you and get your advice and here your laughter. I know you're watching from Heaven but it just isn't the same. You wouldn't believe how big Dakota and Maverick are. Both in high school already and I have 4 nephews. Still just dating until God finds me the right guy so maybe you could help him out with that hahaha. I still wonder why it had to be you but I guess it gives me confidence that God only takes the best. Love you tons.
Dana Martz
April 17, 2009
my sister...
I love you very much... and i wanted to wish you a early happy birthday because i just felt like it!!! i feel ya everyday.. i know you are always with me.. thank you for guiding me and showing me the way... i miss you... <3 ya hardcore!!!
Linda Tucci
December 27, 2008
Merry Christmas My Goddaughter;
Once again another Christmas has come and gone, all the preparation and running around is now over. Christmas this year, as in every year that passes us by is not the same without you. I think of you ALL the time and pray to you and Pop to be with all of us and protect and keep us safe. You are missed SO much by everyone. I am praying for a better 2009, but we never know what each year has in store for each one of us. Just like in 2004, we never knew that in May we would never see you again. You are in a better place with Pop and Gram Molt, they are with you, so you are safe. Please be with your mom, dad and Dana, they need you. Be with all of us as we quickly approach 2009. You are our guardian angel and you are with us all the time. I LOVE and MISS you always, the eeyore you had on your bed, still sits in my room on my cedar chest, I hug him always and squeeze him...Love you sooo much, God mother, Aunt Linda
Linda Tucci
November 13, 2008
My God daughter,
The holidays are slowly approaching and as always you are always missed these times with the family just like you are missed every day..Hope that you are doing okay and with all of our loved ones. Keep us all safe and protected. We all think of you each and every day. I MISS and LOVE you so much...tell Pop-Pop and Mom mom Molt that we miss them too..
Love you lots your Godmother Aunt Linda
Bridget Leonard
November 12, 2008
Hi Kell,
Just wanted to let you know that I always think of you! You were a wonderful friend. I hold all of our great times close to my heart! I miss you!
Dana Martz
February 11, 2008
Hi Bell...
Just wanted to ask for your strength right now.. i have a rough semster ahead of me.. but maybe you could throw some of those extra smarts my way and i will be able to bang it out!! i miss you soo soo much and i just wanted to let you know that and i love so much in the whole wide world!!! send me angel kisses!!!
Linda Tucci
October 18, 2007
Hey Goddaughter, Just sitting here thinking of you as always..you make me smile when I think of you. I always hug the eyeore that was on your bed at home. When I hug him, I feel like I am hugging you! Miss you all the time, your cheerful smile and crystal blue eyes..your an angel in heaven now, watching over us. Keep all of us under your protective wing. We all LOVE and MISS you so much, let all of our loved ones up in heaven know that we are thinking of them. MISS YOU & LOVE YOU, your God Mother, Aunt Linda
Dana Martz
October 7, 2007
i miss you, Kell. I wish i could give you a hug! I love you, always!
Chrissy Pomykacz
September 15, 2007
I miss you and love you Kelly!
May 19, 2007
hey cuz. i miss you. thinking about you everyday.... : )
Dana Martz
April 19, 2007
Happy Birthday to you my beautiful sister..may your day be filled with love, warmth, and memories... Hope your with me all night tonight!! Miss you so much words can not describe.. Love you unconditionally.. <3 your sister
Dana Martz
February 15, 2007
hey my sister,
We had a snow storm a couple of days ago, school was cancelled and intership!!!! it was the best feeling to wake up and then go back to sleep after hewaring the news. So im sitting here thinking about a couple of summers ago and how i have had the best summers of my life with some great people in them. I don't really know exactly what im going to do this summer. I just really wanna be down the shore and soaking up that sun..you know me! i don't think ill be able to stay around school this summer, it just wouldn't be the same as last summer without wilson. so i gota move on a do something else! i miss you beautiful and i know your running it up there!!! keep all those boys in line, you have a few of them up there these days... keep them under that wing! i love you watch over me and mommy and daddy and everyone else!!! i blow you kisses!!! mwahhh
Linda Tucci
November 20, 2006
My dearest Goddaughter Kelly Ann,
I want to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving..We are having dinner at my house again this year. Your mom and dad and Dana, Gram, Aunt Bea and Uncle Scott and Sean and Ryan, and of course me, Uncle Pete, Pete, Steph and Kim. Aunt Paula and Uncle Ken are coming for desert with Amanda, Becca, and Austin...you and Pop-Pop will be thought of the whole day through, wishing the both of your would be here too. I still often think that you are still in Florida at college. Please be with all of us as we spend time together as you and Pop-Pop are here with us too. Be our guardian angel as we travel about and keep your guidance on your mom and dad and especially Dana, she is very upset about her friend who had just passed. Be with all of us...We love and miss you so much! Happy Thanksgiving, Love and miss you LOTS, Aunt Linda your godmother....
Dana Martz
November 16, 2006
Hi my beautiful sister,
I am writing you for your help as well as your guidance. As you already know i lost my lil brother here at school this past thursday night. You already know the whole entire story, probably more then i will ever know. I need you to take care of him up there for me, keep him by your side, because i know you always and still take great care of me, so i need you to do that for him. The only part about this whole situation that i love is that if he can't be with me he can be with you and i wouldn't want him with anyone else. Tell him i love him and i'm sorry for not making him stay. I love you sooo much and at times like these i wish i had you to hold, but i know i hold you in my heart with willie now too. I love you and watch over his mom and dad and his little brother because we all know what their going through right now. I love you so much my angel, now i have 2! Love you both with all my HEART!!!
Stephanie Tucci
November 13, 2006
Hey Kell Bell,
Miss you and Love you lots! =)
Love,
Steph
October 20, 2006
Always thinking of you........
October 20, 2006
Always thinking of you.........
Linda Tucci
May 15, 2006
My dearest Goddaughter Kelly Ann;
I am so sorry that I am so late in wishing you a Happy Birthday. I can see you in heaven with Pop-Pop celebrating your birthday...I am happy that you have Pop-Pop to share it with. Also, with your two year anniversary coming up so quickly, I am very upset again. These past two years have gone so fast. I visited you on Easter, and still get very upset to see your name on the stone. Your grave was decorated so nice with flowers. I was talking to you and Pop-Pop, and told you both how much we all miss the two of you, two special people in our lives. Please take care of each other. Be with all of us and guide and protect all of us, especially your mom. She is doing good, but has her times. Dana is done school now and did well, thanks to your and your guidance with her...We all love and miss you so much..Happy Belated Birthday, Love and miss you always, Aunt Linda
Dana Martz
April 17, 2006
Hey sis,
Well it's almost your 23rd birthday. I wish you were here to celbrate it. I wish i had you here so much, there are just so many hard times i go through, knowing that if you were here, you could help me. Things are just chaning so quickly. Mommy is starting toget back to being mommy again. And yup daddy finally has a new job. I think were going to move to lower-gwenyd, near uncle ray and aunt barb. So Easter just past, and the only thing i could think of all day was, i hope your not lonely, and mommy told me that you were with the best and siting at the head of the table for dinner. So, you would be extremely proud of your lil sister, bangin out A's this semester. Yeah i had to hit rock bottom first though, what else is new! I love you and wish you were here with me every second of every day! Hope your gettin yourself into a lil bit of trouble up there!! Shake it up a lil!
Linda Tucci
January 23, 2006
My dearest Goddaughter, I am so sorry that it has taken me so long to write to you. Thanksgiving was at my house this year, so we can give Grammy a break. So from now on, it will be at my house. It was nice, your mom and dad and Dana were there, my family, Grammy and Uncle Scott's family. Uncle Ken's family couldn't make it this year. Thanksgiving and Christmas still aren't the same with you not being here with us. You are missed so much, more than you will ever imagine. You touched so many lives with your smile, and kindness. You were such an intelligent girl. Over the holidays, me and Uncle Pete went to see you and Pop-pop, it is very hard still..it is such a cold and depressing place to visit. It was very upsetting to me and Uncle Pete and once again question why you were taken from us so young. Be with your mom, she needs you to be her guardian angel at all times. She is a trooper, I will tell you that much. Be with Dana too, as she is in her second semister. Her roomate Binky looks just like you. She is so nice too. Over the holidays Binky, Dana and Linda came over my house and I had to hug Binky, and I told her that she looks so much like you. It is so crazy that from all of the students attending LaSalle, Binky ends up being Dana's roomate. Binky takes care of Dana like you did. Be with all of us, God knows we need your guidance at all times. I Love and Miss you so much, Aunt Linda
Shayna
November 15, 2005
Hey Kel, i miss you so much. it's so hard going thru the motions of life without having you to share the moments with and talk to. i have a best friends photo collage put up of just us and our antics from the academy and uf. there should have been so many more though. i wish i could talk to you about pharmacy school and the new guy i'm dating and about all of my family stuff. i feel like i have no one. i just can't talk to anybody else like we used to talk and nobody understands me like you did. you will never be replaced as my best friend or as my sister. i miss you so much and wish you were here with me.
Dana Martz
November 3, 2005
hey sis,
i just really miss u a lot these days, i have so many things that only you could ever understand going on right now. My friends are great here at school, their my family here. i saw shawn the other day at our homecoming. it was really upsetting for the both of us. i can't wait to see you and have to hold you again. i miss you. talking to a peice of grass just never seems to cut it. i love you and just keep watching over me, mommy, and daddy like you always do. hug and kisses
Linda Tucci
October 1, 2005
My dearest Goddaughter, I miss you so much and need your guidance for everyone so much..we know that an angel was needed in heaven, so God chose you to be that blonde hair, blue eyed angel. Be with Dana and Pete as they attend their colleges and have studies and tests. Be with Pete as he drives to campus each day and home again...be with Grammy at all times, Dana and especially your mom. She is tired and needs to rest and just put her feet up..you know their needs Kelly...be a guardian angel for all of us..God knows we need it....I am so glad that you have Pop and mom-mom. Be with all of us now and help everyone through the rough tiimes...we miss and love you so much...you are missed by all. keep all of us safe and take us all under your protecting wing...Love and miss you like you will never, ever know..your godmother, aunt Linda
Kim Tucci
September 19, 2005
Hey kell,its Kim.Well summer is over and school has started.It's been good.Pete is now in college and i do miss him.He comes home on the weekends so i get to see him.Dana is also in college so just help them through college Kell.Everybody misses you so much it's just that it was all a nightmare and no one can believe it.We all love you very much.Please just help and guide everyone throughout school and college.Kelly you will be in everyones heart from now until forever.I love and miss you Kell.Please watch over all of us.
I love you.
Your cousin,
Yimmy<3
christine pomykacz
September 1, 2005
Kelly,
Hi its Chrissy. I just wanted to say that I LOVE YOU and I MISS YOU SOOO MUCH.
Chrissy xoxoxoxo
Dana Martz
August 30, 2005
hey sis,
welp, i'm back to school now and it's like i never left! Be with pete and al because their both going to college this year. I miss you so much i can't believe that in less than a month i'm goin to be twenty. I remeber for your 21st we went to Alexander's and you and shayna both had a cosmo, you were so excited! Can you please be with me because i need you o much right now, i am trying my hardest to be there for mommy and daddy. I have to be strong for them even though i am hurting really bad right now. I miss you so much it hurts to breath i love you and i will write you back soon. i love you sis!
Linda Tucci
August 29, 2005
My dearest Goddaughter, I feel so much need to write to you. Please be with Dana as she starts school. She really loves it there. Also, Pete started Penn State today, be with him as he commutes to and from college. Also be with both Dana and Pete as they begin with their classes and studies...The summer is almost at an end. This is the sad part of summer, the end...but as they say all good things must come to an end...I can't believe that another summer has come and gone. Everytime I am on the beach so much reminds me of you. The warm sun beating down from the sky, reminds me of your blonde hair and your radiant smile..your smile was always so cheerful and warm...the crashing waves and the laughter of the kids playing in the sand. It is just so peaceful there. So much of the shore is you. I still hug my eyeore and talk to him, it is like I am talking to you and hugging you. I pray to you and pop-pop and mom-mom so much for everything. Anything and everything, and my prayers are answered by you all. I pray alot for your mom, and our family and Grammy. I hope that you are ok, and that you are looking down on all of us. We need you so much. I love you so much and miss you so much too. Keep everyone healthy and happy. Be our guardian angel...God knows we all need a guardian angel at times...Hope your keeping everything under control up there, I can just see you now, making sure that everything is in order....you are so special to me, not only being my God daughter, but just the person that you are, sweet, special, caring, loving, and would do anything for anyone that was just the way you were, very easy going...please take care and be with all of us, we all need your guidance...I LOVE YOU so much and MISS YOU so much too..What I would give just to hug and kiss you one more time...it is just not fair--it really isn't. I will write again, LOVE YOU ALWAYS, Your Godmother, Aunt Linda oooxxx
Linda Tucci
August 24, 2005
My dearest Goddaughter, I hope that you are doing okay up there! You are so missed down here...I know that Pop-Pop and Mom-Mom are taking good care of you...Be with Dana now that she is at LaSalle starting her second year. She misses you so much...we all do. Be with your mom as she needs you to be her guardian angel right now. She tires very easily and needs you there to guide her and hold her hand at times. Be with your dad too. Everyone is so affected by your loss. It is almost a year and a half and we are still very scared by your loss. Be with your family..we need you, but especially Dana, guide her, she needs you so much and just needs your assurance at times...We all miss and love you so much..at times I still look at your picture and I still think that you are in Florida attending school there. I Love and Miss you so much, Aunt Linda
chrissy pomykacz
May 31, 2005
Kelly,
Sorry I am just able to get back on here. I miss you so much :( I am down the shore now but leaving tomorrow. I do not want to go now because being back down here reminds me so much of you. 1 year has just passed and I still can't believe it. I came down here on that day and went to a service for you and then went to the beach and put flowers in the ocean because you loved the beach so much and I know that you were down there enjoying the beautiful day it was. I took some seashells and sand for you and drove home to visit and sit and talk to you. It is not the same without you here. You are not there when I need to talk to someone about things that only you and I talked about. Please help me make the right decisions. You were always good at helping me and giving advice. I miss you sooo much and it still hurts me everyday that you are not here. Megan and I sit and talk about you alot and there are so many things that we do and both say "kelly would have loved that" or "Kelly is laughing at us right now" Everyone misses you and I will never ever forget you and that beautiful smiling face. There is a huge place in my heart that will ALWAYS be with you. I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU.
xoxoxoxo
Love,
Chrissy
Linda Tucci
May 23, 2005
My dear Goddaughter, I am sorry that I am late writing to you. Your one year anniversary has passed and I still am not believing that you are not with us. You are missed so much by everyone..You were given a memorial Service down at the shore. I couldn't be there, but I heard that it was very nice. Then at the cemetery your mom told me that there was sand and seashells on your grave along with beautiful purple flowers and purple ribbons from your head to your toes...you are loved so much by all. You are the sunshine in everyones lives...You are sadly missed...I miss talking to you at college and seeing you when we would be at the shore...you loved the shore so much. Be with your mom and dad and of course Dana, they all need you so much. Help your mom be stronger, she needs to be. The year really passed quickly and really to me, it seems that you are still here with us. Just that you are down the shore, as you always went, when you got out of college for the summer. I Love and Miss you so much....I still hug the eyeore that was on your bed. I talk to him and squeeze him, like you are here....Miss you so much, be with all of us...because your the sun that shines down on all of us, Love and Miss you, Your Godmother Aunt Linda
Kim Tucci
May 19, 2005
Dear Kell, Yesterday was a year that you were not here with us. I had a terrible day yesterday during softball. Thinking that it's not fair not having you here. This is still one unbelievable nightmare no one can believe. I wish i could just fly up to heaven and bring you back down to everybody. I miss and love you very much and i know you are safe with pop-pop and please watch over all of us. We all miss and love you.
Your Yimmy
Shirley (Grammy) Tilley
May 18, 2005
My Dearest Kelly,
"If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane. I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again."
I long to hold you again and to see your wonderful smile and hear your laughter. All of these things were taken away much too soon.
The emptiness I feel inside since I lost you is unbearable at times. A piece of my heart will always be missing. The part I gave to you.
Never a day goes by that I don't think of you. How very proud I am of you and all your accomplishments. You always knew what you wnated out of life and you worked hard to achieve it.
You are vyer special to me, my first grandchild. You light up my life. You are my "special angel". Maybe someday when I am with you once again, I will understand.
"My heart still aches in sadness. My silent tears still flow. For what it meant to lose you. No one will ever know."
Love,
Grammy Ann
Linda Tucci
April 19, 2005
My dear Goddaughter, Happy Birthday to my precious goddaughter. I can't believe that you are 22 years old. I can remember back on that snowy night that you were born...Aunt Bea picked me up and we both headed up to New Frankford Hospital. You were sleeping in the nursery and your hair was so blonde and you looked like a little angel sleeping in your little crib. Uncle Pete, Pete, Steph, Kim and myself all wish you a very happy birthday....I know that you are doing okay with Pop with you...We are still in disbelief...how could this ever have happened...we don't know, but in time we will...I Love and Miss you so much...Your Godmother, Aunt Linda
A. Bea Tilley
April 19, 2005
Kell Bell, today is your birthday and it holds such sweet memories for so many of us. I remember getting the call that you were born we were all so excited to have you join the world. It snowed that day and I remember that every year on your birthday. I still can't beleive that you are not here with us. There is not a day that Uncle Scott, Sean, Ryan and I don't think of you. It is almost one year since that horrible day that you left us. It has been difficult for all of us to come to grips with your loss and naturally it is much worse for your Mom, Dad, and DeeDee. They are trying to cope but seem lost. Give them the strength to find a foundation and the will to build again. I know that you are watching from heaven and are with all of us. We remember you today on what should have been your 22nd birthday. Happy Birthday, Kell Bell,we love you.
Shirley (Grammy) Tilley
April 18, 2005
Dear Kelly Ann,(My Special Angel)
Happy Birthday
I can't believe that you are 22. I remember the day you were born. A precious bundle from heaven. We waited so long for you. The happiness you brought to all of us is something I will never forget. You had so many special qualities. Your smile and wonderful laughter. Your kindness and caring for others, the achievements you accomplished in such a short time. You will always hold a special place in my heart.
Love,
Grammy
Kim Tucci
April 15, 2005
Hey kell, I miss and love you soo much. Your birthday is coming up very soon and its just not fair that i cant call you up and wish you a very happy 22nd birthday and you can't celebrate it with us. Having you not here forever is not fair. I love you so much kell and i wish you still were here with us. You were the best cousin ever and i miss you and love you soo very much. Give me a sign that your ok and watch over us. Love and miss you very much. <3
Your Yimmy
Dana Martz
April 7, 2005
hey kell bell
i just wanted to tell you that i love you so much, i miss you unbelievable. to think that i haven't had a sister for almost 11 months is just not real. i still talk to you all the time and wish you would talk back and give me that sisterly advice i need at 3 in the morning. your birthday is coming soon and all i can think of is our dinner at Alexanders last year!! you had so much fun drinking you cosmo legally. i miss you and the fact that your not here to celebrate your 22 birthday, which you deffinately should be here for. always remember i love you and always will. love always and forever
your sister Dee
chrissy pomykacz
March 5, 2005
hi kelly,
i have just been thinking about you so much. i talk about you all the time to anyone and everyone. i miss you soooo much. i have been having some very tough times lately and i know you are there with me each day because i feel your strength helping me. i have a picture of you everywhere i go. i always look at it and see you smiling and i feel that warmth you always gave with your smile. i can't believe that it has already been almost ten months. it feels like yesterday that you and i went out to lunch and to the mall when you came to the shore. i miss those times that we had hanging out. i miss talking to you and hearing your voice and your laugh. this is not fair at all. i wake up at night sometimes because i have these dreams of you and i sitting on my bed talking about things and when i wake up you are not there and i just cry. i know that you are in a much better place and you are the sweetest angel there with the most beautiful smile and wonderful personality. i know that you are with pop-pop and grandmom and that they are taking care of you. i am going away at the end of april with megan. we are going to jamaica. i am finally going out of the country. i am excited i just wish that you could be there. i am not able to get on here to often but i know that you hear me talk to you everyday. you were always a great listener. i love you and i miss you.
love,
chrissy
xoxoxoxo
Linda Tucci
February 26, 2005
My dearest Goddaughter Kelly Ann; I wanted to wish you a belated Valentines Day, because, you are my valentine...Your mom gave me the real big Eyeore you had on your bed at home, and I keep him in my room too. Every night before I go to bed, I hug and squeeze him real tight, like it is you. It is so soft and each night before I go to bed I just have to hug him tight. I miss you so much, please give me signs that you are doing alright. We all miss you so much. Your 22nd birthday is coming up soon and I still can't believe that you are not here to celebrate it with us. I still can't believe that this has happened. I just relive that phone call that you fell in CVS and hit your head real bad. It is all like a bad dream..that I will wake up and you will still be here with all of us. Be with Dana at LaSalle and your mom and dad and Grandmom. I LOVE and MISS YOU so much. Keep all of us safe and be all of our guardian angels, be with us all the time. I know that you and Pop-Pop are with us. Please take care and send me signs that you are good. God takes the best and by far you are the best. My angel, your smile and your generous way made so many people love you so much. You would make any rainy day, feel like a warm summer day..with just your smile alone. I Love You and Miss you so much...Love your Godmother, Aunt Linda
Dana Martz
February 17, 2005
Hey kell bell
oh man, i really miss you so much. I wish you were here so i could talk to you and tell you how my life is going. I have so much stuff to tell you that i would never tell anyone else, and i still don't tell anyone else. i have been laying in my bed lately and wondering where you are, and how you are. I wish i could hear you and know that you were ok, because i am not. I need you here with me it has almost been 9 months without my sister. I just feel that it is unreal and anyday now i am going to wake up from this, but the sad thing is, i never do wake up and i catch my self writing in this thing instead of talking to you in person. i miss you and i love you. you will always be my sister and i will always have a piece of you in me.
love you sister,
Dana
shayna
January 29, 2005
hey kel, heard this song on the radio while i was driving home from work yesterday and it automatically brought tears to my eyes. i can't believe i haven't seen you in 8 months. i always thought i'd go first like in beaches. hope you're doing ok. i miss you and life is not the same without you. i don't really talk to any of our old friends. i'm dating a new guy that is really nice. but i wish you were here so i had someone to talk to about it. anyway, it's gasparilla weekend so hopefully i'll go out tonight. trying to figure out life and if i want to go back to school. you know how indecisive i am. i feel your presence around me but it would be helpful if you'd let me know you're doing well. i know you're watching over me so please help me make correct decisions. Look out for everybody down here and keep smiling. I love you tons.
"It must have been cold there in my shadow
To never have sunlight on your face
You were content to let me shine, that's your way
You always walked a step behind
So I was the one with all the glory
While you were the one with all the strength.
A beautiful face without a name, for so long
A beautiful smile to hide the pain
Did you ever know that you're my hero
And everything I would like to be
If I can fly higher than an eagle
You are the wind beneath my wings
It might have appeared to go unnoticed
But I've got it all here in my heart
I want you to know I know the truth
Of course I know it
I would be nothing with out you
Fly, fly, fly away
You let me fly so high
Oh, fly, fly
So high against the sky
So high I almost touch the sky
Thank you, thank you, thank god for you
The wind beneath my wings"
Kim (Yimmy) Tucci
January 14, 2005
Dear Kelly, I know i haven;t wrote to you in awhile.I've been busy with schoolwork and my dance classes. I am doing good in school,i really enjoy it. Yesterday when i was looking through my art box i found a picture.The picture had all the girls in it and i showed everybody. My mom now has it and she hung it up. It was just recent like a year or two ago. Everybody looked so happy and smiling.I also found a journal of mine with a picture of you and I in Downtwon disney when My mom,Steph and I visited you all. We took it in one of those picture booths and it is perfect. That to me is a treasure. I still wonder and think about what happened. This was just a unreal nightmare to everyone. The hoildays are over and it's now starting a new year. I know that Pop-pop and Mom-mom and taking care of you and they always will. I want to wish you a late Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I hope you enjoyed Christmas and the new year in heaven. I love and miss you Kelly. Please show me signs of you. It will make me feel delighted inside that your here with us. I miss you so-so much and i love you and always will forever and ever! <3
Linda Tucci
January 10, 2005
My dearest Goddaughter, Well, the holidays are now over with. It was very hard for all of us, with you not here to share this Christmas with us. We all tried our hardest for your mom, dad and Dana. There were so many times that many of us just wanted to break down, but for your mom and dad and Dana and everyone else, we kept our spirits high for the little ones. Your dad, as you already know played Santa for Becca and Austin. He did very well...Dana helped with the presents for the kids and she did well too. Uncle Pete and I went to see you and Pop-Pop at the cemetery during Christmas. It was decorated so festive for the both of you. Someone brought you roses, and put garland all around you, with many flowers in red and green. Palma gave your mom mummers feathers to put on your grave...it looked nice. Pop Pop's looked nice too. I hope that you are ok where you are. I still look for signs from you. Maybe you are sending them to me, and I'm not seeing them. Thank you for answering all of our prayers for Pete to get into Penn State, because of praying to you and Pop, Pete got accepted into Penn State, Abington campus. This prayer was answered by you and Pop, thanks Kell, you know that he really wanted to go there.:) Be with your mom and dad and Dana, She is going back to school on Sunday, she was ready to go back three weeks ago. Binky takes good care of her, she reminds all of us of you. I will remain praying to you and Pop-Pop and asking you to be with all of us. I love you and miss you so, so much...it is still not easy for any of us....you are the sunshine of all of our lives...you are a beautiful and caring person. Please give me signs that you are ok...Love you so much, Your Godmother, Aunt Linda
dana martz
December 13, 2004
hey my pretty sister,
well christmas is almost here and honestly i don't know exactly how i'am going to do this. i just keep thinking what am i going to do. what is mommy and daddy going to do and the rest of our family. chrissy is expecting your hug when she walks through the door, and yeah your not going to be there to give it. i'am waiting for you to sleep with me on christmas eve night in grammys single twin bed talking about what we got each other for christmas. i don't have anyone to walk down the stairs with on christmas morning. mom and me have to have a sleep over on the floor down stairs so i don't have to walk down the stairs by myself. there are so many things i have to tell you and i am just waiting for you to get here so i can tell you. i am taking college finals this week, yeah! who would have thought your lil sis taking college finals. me and my binky had christmas this past week and it was the best christmas i am going to have this year... just me and her. i miss you so much please come home to me where you belong. i'm hurting way to much. i love you so much in the whole wide world. i love you kell bell merry christmas babe. i'll talk to you soon.
love your sister dee dee
Linda Tucci
November 27, 2004
My dear Goddaughter Kelly Ann, Thanksgiving is here and gone. I am so relieved. The morning for me was very bad. The Thanksgiving day parade was on and they were playing Christmas songs. Well, that was bad, I started to cry and realized that you were not going to be at Grammy's for dinner this year. Be with Dana and your parents they are trying very hard to be strong. Help all of us to be strong for them. Your cousin Maureen is getting married real soon, and I know that you will be at the wedding making sure all goes well. Please give me a sign, anything just to let me know that you are fine. I think about pop-pop and mom-mom so often, and I know that you are in good hands with them and also your grandmom and grandpop from your dad's side. Please let me know your ok, and be with all of us, God knows that we need your guidance always....I love you so much and miss you so much too...I miss your bright and cheery smile and your kind heart...Love You Always, Your Godmother, Aunt Linda
chrissy pomykacz
November 25, 2004
hi kel,
i know it has been a long time since i have been on here but there has been so much going on. i moved in late september. i am now living with megan in PA. can you believe it, i moved out. i know we never thought i would. we talked about if i did that we would live together when you came back up here. i know that you are there with me in my new place. it is thanksgiving today and i went home for dinner with the family. i am at maureens new house now for the night. it is getting to close to christmas and i am not ready for that at all. i spoke with dana twice today she seems to be doing well at lasalle. i know you are proud of her. maureen is getting married next week and dana is going to stay with us the night before and get her hair done with us in the morning. i wish i could be there for her more but we are all so busy. i have had a few rough weeks thinking about you and having dreams of us sitting in a bedroom just talking about boys and things. it seems so real until i wake up and think about christmas and you running and hugging me when i come in the door. i dont know what i am going to do. i can not handle that. i miss you so much that it hurts. when i think about you i cry and i feel pain. i have come to visit you i am only five minutes away. but it isn't fair. you should be right next to me having fun. i call T alot and we talk about you and she helps me out alot. i miss you so much it is just not the same without you here. i love you and miss you :( please be with us all at this time. i love ya kel
love your cousin,
chrissy
Linda Tucci
November 16, 2004
My dear Goddaughter Kelly Ann, I think about you all the time, at work, at home, just about everywhere I am. I see your smiling face gleaming...your face lit up the room. You were always so happy, and never did I ever see you not smiling. It was just a part of your personality, always nice, smiling and just a beautiful person, inside and out. Not many people have what you had. I was looking at the pictures that Stephanie put together of you in her room on the cork board, she did a good job and worked on it a long time before she could hang it on her wall. I always look at it and still after almost six months, I still believe that you are here with us...but Thanksgiving is getting closer, and I think that we all will realize then. It will not be the same for any of us. Grandmom wanted to make sure that your mom and dad and Dana still wanted Thanksgiving dinner at her house just like the tradition. Your mom and dad left it up to Dana and she wants everything to be the same as always. Please be with all of us as we try to get through these next weeks of Thanksgiving and Christmas. I do not look forward to this time. It is going to be so hard Kelly, we will all try our best to get through this, but you know as we all do, it will be very hard. I think of you so much and Miss you and Love you so much....be with your mom and dad as they clear out the house in Florida. They will buy a home here and be near Dana in LaSalle. Your parents loved that house, but it is time for them to be here with all of us. As the holidays come closer, be with each and every one of us. Help us to get through this really tuff time in our lives. I wish some how some way you can give me a sign that you are fine and so is Pop-Pop. I Love you so much and miss you so much too. Love, your Godmother, Aunt Linda OOXX
Dana Martz
October 31, 2004
hey kell,
well today i had to see an accident and everything came back to me. I pictured everything in my head and even though i wasn't there that day when everything happened i saw it and just kept replaying it over and over again in my head. I will never forget that day, i lost half of me and its just not fair. I don't know if your okay or not i don't even know where you are. I went back to florida and couldn't even look at the futon you used to sleep on. I miss you so much and i love so much. My heart aches to be with you again. someday we will though and until that day comes i need you with me mommy and dad. pictures and old memories just don't cut it for me i need you here so i can pick up the phome and call you. Up until a few weeks ago your phone was out of service. I relized when i had called one day it wasn't you that answered it was some other lady with your telephone number. I love you and please let me know that your with me because i truely need reasurance. love you so much
your sister
MAUREEN POMYKACZ
October 19, 2004
HEY KEL,
IT'S ME MAUREEN. I JUST NEEDED TO TALK TO YOU TODAY. I'VE THINK I'VE BEEN FIGTHING IT FOR MONTHS, BUT FOR SOME REASON IT REALLY HIT ME HARD YESTERDAY. EVERY ONE SAID IT WOULD HAPPEN. I JUST COULD'NT COMPREHEND THAT I WASN'T GONNA SEE YOU AGAIN. IT CAME TO ME YESTERDAY AND HARD. I COULD'T SLEEP LAST NIGHT AND WHEN I DID I HAD HORRIBLE NIGHTMARES, I GUESS THAT WAS THE WAY FOR MY MIND TO GET IT OUT. I CAME IN WORK AND HAVE CRIED ALL MORNING. I MISS YOU VERY VERY MUCH AND WANT YOU AT MY WEDDING SO BAD. I HAD MY SHOWER OCT 3 YOUR MOM, DANA, AND GRANDMOM CAME. I'M SO GLAD THEY DID DECIDE TO COME, I THINK IT WOULD'VE BEEN HARDER IF THEY DID'NT. I'LL MAKE SURE TO PLAY BUILD-ME-UP-BUTTERCUP FOR YOU AT THE WEDDING. THIS IS ACTUALLY MAKING ME FEEL BETTER, ALITTLE. I FEEL LIKE I'M TALKING TO YOU. SORRY I CAME TO YOU SO LATE, I'VE BEEN VERY UPSET, BUT TOOK 5 MONTHS TO REALLY SLAM ME.I WAS REFUSING TO LET GO. I SPOKE TO YOU A FEW DAYS BEFORE YOU ACCIDENT ABOUT GOING OUT FOR YOUR B-DAY. I KNOW I REALLY WANTED IT TO HAPPEN. I'LL SEE YOU ON DECEMBER 4TH AT THE CHURCH, GIVE ME A HUG AND A SMILE, AND HELP ME HOLD MY HEAD UP HIGH. I LUV YA!
YOUR BIG COUSIN
MAUREEN
Linda Tucci
October 16, 2004
My Dearest Goddaughter:Today is Saturday, October 16th, we were all at Becca's birthday. It was nice to see everyone there. The weather was raining bad when we were driving to the party, but once we got closer to Uncle Ken's and Aunt Paula's it stopped. We miss you so much and you are the topic of our conversation all the time. Your mom still can not go to any family parties yet, which is understandable. Dana is at a homecoming at College tonight and tomorrow she and her roomate are going to the Eagles game. Shes lucky to have tickets for any Eagles game. Be with your mom and dad and Dana at all times. We LOVE and MISS you lots.....you are so special to everyone. I think of you so much and so many songs I hear remind me of you in different ways. Your mom can't listen to certain stations, You know me, I told her to listen to Rock or Rap, can you see your mom listening to that kind of music, we are like night and day....but I love the closeness that we share. It's like the closeness that we shared too. You are close to many people and and always had a smile, no matter what Kell, and so many people admire that about you. You are Beautiful and so many ways....I LOVE and MISS you so much, and even though its been 5 months, I still do not believe that this has happened. To me, you are still here and in school. Be with all of us, keep all of us strong...especially your mom, dad and Dana. LOVE and Miss you, LOVE Your Godmother Aunt Linda XXOO
Amanda Tilley
September 22, 2004
Hey Kell-bell,
It's been a while since I've writen in here. It's been a while since I could read these entries. Today I missed you so much. I miss you everyday. Everything reminds me of you, even the most simplist things. It hurts so bad to think that you are really gone. That you have been gone and there is no way any of us are getting over it. It's impossible. At such a young age you have touched so many lives. Dana's birthday was Monday I know you are there helping her get through college. Becca's birthday was yesterday. Chickenhead misses you so much. I remember the day you taught her that song. We all laughed for hours. Though it's hard to remember these things that remind me of you, memory's are the only things I have left of you. I hope you and pop pop are doing ok. Please watch over us and please let us know you are ok. I love you so much and will always be missing you.
~your mandee-mand
Linda Tucci
September 5, 2004
Dear Goddaughter Kelly Ann, Well this is Labor Day weekend. The summer is over, and it is time to close up grammy's shorehouse and everyone will go back to school. You already would have been back at school. I still believe that you are there in Florida back to college, finishing up your last year. There is a big Hurricane in Florida now, Francis...there is alot of rain there now. I miss you so much, and think of you all the time. We didn't go down the shore this weekend like we always do, there was alot to be done at home, and the weekend wasn't that great anyway grammy said, Saturday was ok with clouds, and Sunday was windy and cool. I hope that you are okay...I Love and Miss you sooo much. I know that you and poppy are looking down on us, keeping us safe. I will write soon, Love You So Much and Miss you So much too, Love your godmother Aunt Linda, oh by the way, Dana really loves LaSalle,and likes her roommate alot too. So this is really good and you have alot to do with this. Be with mom and dad too. Love You:)
Linda Tucci
August 26, 2004
My dear goddaughter, I am waiting for my wash to get done, and the dryer just buzzed, to let me know that I can put in the next load. Kell, I miss you so much. I was in the garage again, and wish that you were in there waiting for me. Please give me a sign that you are doing ok. I know that you are, but I will have piece of mind if you would give me any sign just to let me know. I know that you and pop-pop are watching over all of us keeping us safe. Be with Dana, she is enjoying school. She met alot of new friends, so that is good. I do miss you SOOO much and think of you often. You are missed so much by all of us. I Love you. Watch over your mom and dad too, and grandmom. Love you and Miss you alot, Love Your Godmother, Aunt Linda
Linda Tucci
August 21, 2004
My dearest Goddaughter Kelly Ann, Well Dana is at LaSalle, what a morning...Friday night Uncle Ken, Aunt Paula, Rebecca and Austin, Me, Uncle Pete, Pete, Steph and Kim, Dee, your mom and dad all went to Tony's for pizza and beer. It was so nice to be out. The Eagles game had started while we were there, and you know how crowed it gets there. Uncle Scott and Sean were at the game and Aunt Bea and Ryan didn't come, and of course Grammy is down the shore. Me, Steph and Kim slept over Grammy's with your dad, mom and Dee, so we could say goodbye to Dee and tell her that she will be fine. I know that you were there while they were packing up the car and when your cousin Chrissy and Dana drove away with your mom and dad in their car. It took two cars to bring all of Dee's stuff to LaSalle. Dee was scared, which is to be expected. I know that you were there to help her move in. Your were watching over all of them. Now is the time when Dee needs you. Please be with her and the rest of us. Three months has past and we are still saddened by your loss. I go into our garage and still go over to your things and touch your clothes and shoes, and put my head on your pillow and smell it, it still smells like you. I want to go into the garage and see you so that I can hug and kiss you again and squeeze you so hard that you will not leave me. You were so precious to me. I still have many bad days along with everyone else. I have your picture at work pinned up in front of me so that I can see you and talk to you. You are such an angel. I am still so angry and mad that this happened to you, I still question God about this and why he took you, why??I know that we aren't supposed to question it, but I do, and I will continue to. I know though, that I will not get any answers, until I go to heaven and see you myself. It is not by any means getting easier, we still have the holidays to get through, I do not look forward to that. It will not be the same...Please let me know that you are ok, I want to see you so bad. I LOVE and MISS you so, so much and my heart is so empty and sad without you here. You brought so many people sunny days with your smile and personality. What a sweet and giving person. My heart is so hurt because this happened to you. Please be with your mom, when we went out on Friday night, she said she misses you so darn much and is really hurting, be with Dee at LaSalle, and dad at his new job. We all Love and Miss you...Always Love you Forever, Your Godmother, Aunt Linda
Dana Martz
August 15, 2004
Hey Kell Bell,
Well today was one of those days. I woke up and i have been having dreams about school and i am so scared that i'm not going to do alright. That i'm not going to live up to your standards. I want to be all i can be for mommy and daddy they want me to do well and i want to do well for them. I really wish you were here through this time for me. I have to move in on saturday and chrissy and shawn are helping me move in and i am so happy chris is going to be therebecause i love her a lot and everything she has done for me. Kell i really wish you were here it just seems like its getting harder and harder. i really need you here and your not and i am so confused i wish i could see you. I want to talk to you and hug you and watch you brush your hair and i want to do your make-up and i want to to come spend the night in my dorm room. I love and miss you.
love your little sister <3
DEE
KEN TILLEY
August 12, 2004
HEY KELL
IT' UNCLE KEN SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG TO WRITE I'AM TAKEING THIS REALLY HARD THERE'S NOT A MIN OR A SEC OR A DAY THAT GOES BY THAT I DON'T THINK OF YOU I MISS YOU SO MUCH I WAS SO PROUD OF YOU WHEN YOU GOT EXCEPTED TO U.F. YOU KNEW WHAT YOU WANTED TO BE AT A VERY YOUNG AGE AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS GREAT I WAS SO HAPPY FOR YOU I REMEMBER LAST YEAR WHEN I WAS IN THE POLICE ACADEMY YOU NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT ONE OF THE AMENDMENT'S I WAS GLAD I WAS ABLE TO HELP YOU OUT I THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT THAT YOU WERE GOING TO BE A LAWYER AND I'AM GOING TO BE A POLICE OFFICER WHO WOULD EVER THOUGHT THAT TWO PEOPLE IN OUR FAMILY WOULD HAVE BEEN WORKING IN THE LAW FIELD JUST TO LET YOU KNOW EVERY NIGHT I GO TO WORK AND PATROL THE STREETS I KNOW THAT POP-POP AND YOU ARE THERE TO KEEP ME SAFE I ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES TO HAVE TWO SPECIAL PEOPLE IN MY LIFE TO KEEP WATCH OVER ME MISS YOU VERY MUCH KELL
LOVE UNCLE KEN
christine pomykacz
August 4, 2004
My Beautiful Cousin,
Hey, its your cousin Chrissy. I was out with Dana and Alison tonight, we went out to go eat a late dinner. What else is new that is all we ever do. I went with Dana last Thursday to get her tatoo. Boy did she squeeze my hand hard. The tatoo she has is very beautiful. Dana has been keeping busy with Jill and Alison and of course all of her boys. We have been going to the beach trying to get tan and eating alot. Our thing to do is hit up the hot dog cart and lay on the beach and eat and every once in awhile we attack the fudgy wudgy man. I keep telling Dana that she is contributing too much to any of my weight gain but she just laughs at me. I requested off to help Dana move into Lasalle if she wants me to. She is a little nervous but I know she is going to be just fine especially when she starts to meet all of the guys ( so boy crazy ). I know that you will be there with her watching over her. She is with Alison right now probably driving around like we did when there was nothing else to do. They are all so funny together. I wish you were here with us. I went out with Shayna when she was down. We went to the #1 tavern with your dad and DJ on a tuesday and then Shayna and I went out on a Friday night. I took her to north wildwood bars. we started out at Moore's because i knew how much you were looking forward to going there and then we went to a few more. I hope she enjoyed herself. I just wish that you could have been there with us. i miss you sooooo much Kelly. I just want to see you and hear you and go out and have a beer with you. its not fair. i didn't even get to have a drink with you for your 21st. please send me a sign that you are here with me and that you are ok. I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU :(
Love always,
Chrissy
Shirley Tilley
August 1, 2004
Dear Sheryl, Rusty, and Dana,
My heart aches for all of you. I know nothing I do or say right now will take away the pain you are carrying in your hearts. Read the words to the following song.
*SMILE*
Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though it’s breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You’ll see the sun come shining through for you
Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That’s the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what’s the use of crying?
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile
Love,
Mom/Grammy Ann
Amanda Tilley
July 30, 2004
Hey Kelly
It's taken me so long to realize that this surreal feeling is not a nightmare. It is the real thing. A real thing that I cannot bear to endure. It has taken me a long time to realize that your not in school back at Florida or down grammy's at the shore. It has taken me a while to realize that I will never see you smile again; except in the picture that I hold dear to me and look at everyday. It has taken me a long time to realize that since that day I found out that horrid news that I have never truly stopped crying. Even as cousins we didn't see eachother that often, but we tried so hard to make every moment we shared the best it could be. I remember two summers ago, it was the weekend of fourth of July and my mom was picking me up to go to North Carolina on vacation. I was so excited to go, but I wouldn't let my mom take me home until I got to say goodbye to you. You weren't home so we drove by your work and I stopped in to say goodbye. Then it didn't mean much, but little did i know the place where I said goodbye to you those summers ago would be the place that would take you away so we could never say hello. I can't help but be selfish and think why did God take you away? Why did He need you now? Why did you go to work? Why were you down the shore then? I still don't have answers to these questions and I fear I never will. I need you here with me to be a cousin and help me through my adolescent years. I need you here so whenever I hear I'm a slave for you or build me up buttercup I can laugh hysterically, not cry uncontrollably. I need you here so at Christmas time there are ten grandchildren trying to squeeze on Grammy's couch. I am so scared that without you here this winter we may fit on that couch. It is not supposed to be that way. The day I found out you were in the hospital I was so optimistic that you would recover. I felt I needed to be that way for the "chickens" and Steph and the whole family. I tried so hard to believe myself that everything would be ok. I remember telling Steph don't worry babe she'll be ok. She'll be back down the shore soaking up the sun any day now. Of all the times I could be wrong. I would give back everytime I was right and be wrong then to be wrong that day. I would give back every moment of my happiness to know you're ok. Kell, I miss you so much. Please let me know that you are ok. Any sign to know that you are in a better place. My birthday is in eight days, I'll be fifteen. I know you'll be there looking down with that smile on your face. Kelly, please never forget me. I will always be your Mandee-mand. I love you.
Linda Tucci
July 29, 2004
My Dear Goddaughter Kelly Ann,
It is already Thursday night, and I am thinking of you, as always...It was 10 weeks for you on Tuesday, and what a bad day I had. First of all on the way to work it was rainy and cloudy and just miserable. Well what comes on the radio, but Girls just wanna have fun. I put the radio up so loud and just thought of the karaokee (spelled wrong, help me with this one Kell, you were always the good speller) night at Aunt Bea's when all of you girls were dancing and laughing and acting so crazy, it was so funny to see all of you be so HAPPY. Well of course that has all changed, we aren't as happy as we were in those videos. I got into work and just lost it, thank God for the nice and concerned people that I work with, because like me, they lost loved ones too and can relate to me. I cried that morning and just talking to Pat,a co-worker and my boss Sue, Aunt Bea, and Denise another co-worker, it helped me get through the rest of the day. Everyone at work knows this is still upsetting to me and my boss has been through this along with my co-worker Pat. I still can't go to church, I can't listen to the songs they play at mass, because they bring back all those memories at the mass at your funeral. Be with your sister, she needs your guidance with going to college and needs you to be with her along her long road. Be with your dad, in Fort Worth, what a time for his job change, there is just too much going on, but Kell, be with your mom, keep her strong for Dana starting college and also, with your dad away in training for his new job. Be with all of us, be our angel, because that is what you are. You are an angel to all of us, watching us and guiding us. Next weekend, hopefully its nice out, we are going to go down to the shore to see Dana, Gram and your mom. I hope that its nice, because I want to spend lots of time with my sister (your mom) and just chill on the beach. The last weekend we tried to go down it was a rainy miserable weekend. So hopefully this will be a better weekend. Please give us sunshine...Like your smile..:) I Love you so, so much and miss you so so much, everyday I see your picture when I get to work and talk to you and hope for a good day. Thanks for all of my good days Kell, Well I hope someday soon, you can give me a sign that you are ok. I will wait as long as you want. Tell my dad, that I love him and miss him too. You are with Pop-Pop and he is there for you. LOVE YOU LOTS AND MISS YOU LOTS TOO, Aunt Linda-your Godmother
Dana Martz
July 29, 2004
Hey Kell
I'm getting my tatoo done today..i'm not scared because i know you wouldn't be. Its the cutest tatoo of you and me. Yesterday i had a rough day...and the dayday before that too. Our tilley and tucci side of the family are getting ready to come down the shore and i;m kinda scared because i haven't seen them since you past away and i feel kinda werid. I miss dad a whole lot he's in texas. But he's being the bravest and strongest dad ever. You know how dad is he'll come back to jersey with his texas accent. Remember at christmas time every state we stopped in his accent changed. We always laughed. So i have to laugh for the both of us now and i hate that. i wish you were still here so bad. Theres not enough pleases i can say or wishes i can wish to have you back.And you know i always get what i want if i ask really nicely and with a smile. It dosen't work this time. I really miss your voice i want to hear it i feel like i'm forgetting it but how could that ever be. Your my sister i can't forget what you sound like, can I? I miss you kell writing in your guest book dosen't really cut it. i love you and miss you and wish you were here with me. Love you so much in the whole wide world and don't you forget that. Love always and forever Dee
Alisa (Aguado) Capreri
July 26, 2004
Rusty, Sheryl and Dana,
I am so sorry for your loss. It seems like just yesterday that I was walking up the street to babysit the girls. Unfortunately you moved away and our families lost touch, but it seems from reading all the entries in Kelly's guest book she grew up to be an incredible young women who touched many lives. I can only hope that you can find some comfort knowing how much Kelly was loved. You are in my prayers.
Dana Martz
July 25, 2004
hey sis,
i miss you a lot today!!! Yesterday at work i had this family of four come in and it was two little girls and their parents. The dad had the video camera out taping them dancing to the band, i stood there watching and a few tears dropped and it just reminded me of us and mommy and daddy. Now i'm alone on those videos ans i don't want that, but thats how it has to be. i have sooo many things to tell you and i want to tell you so bad. I go and talk to chrissy now she has been the closest thing to an older sister to me. i love that and i'm greatful for that but its never gonna be the same. I talked to this guy from LaSalle yesterday, he's really nice. His name is Mike, and he's cute. You would like him. So i am picking out my tatoo you will like it. Its me and you together. The guy that is gonna do it for me his name is Cohwen, and he reminds me of shawn so much but without the tatoo's and piercengs. I miss you kell i wish you were here instead of me getting this tatoo. I love you more than anyone could imagine. Please help mom and dad out. i love you . your the best sister ever and always will be!
Bea Tilley
July 25, 2004
Kell Bell, I gave you that name and it became special for the two of us. It makes me happy to see how many other came to think of you that way. It has taken me a long time to write to you because I can't beleive you aren't at school or down the shore. There are so many things that I want to say to you to let you know how much I love you and miss you, so much it hurts. I think of all the fun things that we did over the years as you grew up. You and Alex at grandmom's shore house looking out the front door with your arm around him; singing "jammin on the beach"; and the fun times we had doing the cousin Kareoke parties at my house. You always took all the cousins under your wing and organized the night. I remember last year you said it would be your last - how did you know? I look at your pictures with your beautiful smile in each one. I know that you are smiling down on each of us now but it is not the same as having you here. I see your Mom, Dad and DeeDee and wonder how they are moving forward, our grief is heavy so theirs has to be unbearable. Is it you that are still giving them strength? Ryan told me that he knows you are an angel now and that we will all be together again, I wish it was that easy for the rest of us to be able to cope with this. You gave so much to our family and from reading the other entries to so many others that you touched. We are truly blessed to have had you and are thankful that we were such a close family giving us so many treasured memories. I hope that heaven is worthy of you, my Kell Bell of the Ball. I love you, Aunt Bea.
Dana Martz
July 23, 2004
hey kell bell,
i went to visit you today. I wasn't sure if i was going to be able to do that. I had so many feelings going through me when we were driving into the memorial. i didn't understand how i could be there to see you. how do i go see my sister and not really see her. how do i talk to you and you not respond? It doesn't make any sense. So i started picking weeds out of the dirt, than did some major yelling at pop-pop and grandmom and our other pop-pop. How could they let that happen to you... the perfect one!!! So after the weed picking i layed on top of the dirt because that is the closest that i can get to you. I wish i could dig a hole and lay with you. Mommy yells at me because i say i don't care about anything anymore. But honestly i don't i want to come see you and hug you and kiss you and yes still argue with. Who's going to die my hair now and go get pitas with me? and bring me hot cookies and smoothies to school? i wish i could hold your little hands one more time. or be there when you wake up in the morning with your hair all over the place and your confused look on your face as to why i woke you up so early. but i can't do that now or ever again and i am hurting so bad and no one can ever heal that. I love you so much and want you back and for whatever reason you had to leave me for will never cut it. i love you and sorry it took me so long to say these few words your the best sister ever and you always will be!!! love alway soft softy ... dee
Linda Tucci
July 21, 2004
Hey, Kell, today is Wednesday, and I still think that you are in Florida or at the shore. This is still a horrible nightmare, and I can't wake up. I want just to kiss you and hug you again. We are going to the shore this weekend,and you would be there with us to go to the beach, and hang out and go to Moore's. That was the plan, now that you were 21, we were going to go to Moore's and have a couple drinks on the deck there and just have fun. It is not fair to any of us that this has happened to you. You are one of a kind..no one was like you. You always smiled and had this specical, sweet, way about you. That is why so many people liked you. You were a beautiful and special person inside and out. Believe me when I say that you are greatly missed by so many. I look at your picture first thing in the morning on my bureau and then at work(it is tacked right in front of me) so when I am on the phone or just need to see your smile, its there, then before I go to bed, your picture is right there next to me, on my bureau, and every night I talk to you, then say good night to you. I wish that I could kiss and hug you goodnight I love and miss you so much, please watch over your mom, dad and Dana, they need you and your guidance. Be with Dana as she goes to college real soon, she will need you then. I Love You, Kelly, and wish that you were here. Love Aunt Linda
christine pomykacz
July 20, 2004
Hi Kel,
Theresa and I came to visit you today. It was very hard for me to come up there because I still don't believe any of this has happened. We brought you some seashells from the seashore and a few other things. I hope they don't go away. I will try to come and visit you as much as I can. I miss you sooooo much. I am having some very tough days here but I know that you are here with me. I cry now as I write to you because I just want to here from you and I know that I won't. I love you so much and I miss you.
Love you always,
Chrissy
christine pomykacz
July 19, 2004
Hi Kelly, its your cousin Chrissy. I miss you so much Kel that it hurts. Not a day goes by that you are not on my mind. I here songs and see so many things that remind me of you. Its not fair that you had to go. We had such a fun summer planned for us. We have been planning this since the "youngs ave." days. You are my angel now watching my every move. I feel you there with me everywhere I go. I know that you are looking down over all of us to keep us all safe. I miss you kel and I still cry every day that you are not here with me. I can't believe that it has been 2 months.
I look at your picture everyday and how beautiful you were. I have lost my "summer partner in crime" Our rides around town by the bars, and our nights at Tuckers, our relaxing nights of a bottle of wine and sleepovers just talking about our crazy stories that we had together, and the 2:00am phone calls to eachother about brokenhearts. I don't have that anymore. No one laughs at my crazy stories like you Kel. I had so much fun with you. You kept me going through the good times and the bad. I am lost without you here.
I MISS YOU AND I LOVE YOU.
Love your cousin and friend always.
Chrissy
Linda Tucci
July 12, 2004
Hey Kelly, Today is a very dreary, rainy and miserable day here. I think of you so much, each and every day. Fourth of July was not the same without you there with us. We went to see the fireworks at the bay, they were nice. It was a nice long weekend, the weather was really good. A great weekend for the beach, we went to the beach on Friday and Sunday, then on Saturday, we went to the Craft shows. On Monday we went to the boardwalk and your mom and I ate ice cream and talked alot. Be with your mom, she needs you. She had a rough Monday afternoon, she took another walk after we came back and saw some young kids playing frisbee and listening to music on the radio, she came home and started to cry, saying that should of been you. I tried to be strong for her, because she has been so strong for everyone else. It isn't fair and we all know this. I love you so much and miss you so much too, I will write again, Love You, Aunt Linda
Kim Tucci
July 9, 2004
Hey Kell, it was a couple days ago when we came home from the shore. We saw beautiful fireworks and celebrated Fourth of July. It wasn't the same without you there, in every special event you made it fun. You were so fun and enjoyable to hang around with. Your my angel i look up to now. All i need is just one strong sign to let me know your ok. I really miss you and i always think to myself why? why? why?,why kelly, a bright, smart, and wonderful person not even a person a COUSIN. You were the BEST cousin ever. You made EVERYTHING special. This is just a scary nightmare that i can't even believe, no one can. It's such a hard event to get over and i will never get over it, you were a piece of my heart and now it's empty,and that piece will never come back in my heart. When life still goes on i will be waiting for a wonderful path to follow in life and i will always follow your footsteps that you led, now and until the end of time. I love you and miss you tons and tons. Give me a sign that your ok, up there in that beautiful place HEAVEN. I love you Kelly, and always will. <3
Love you, Kim (Yimmy)
Linda Tucci
June 29, 2004
Hey Kell, today is a hard day for me at work, it was six weeks ago we got the horrible news. Each and every Tuesday that goes by, I think of you. You are missed by so many, it hurts all of us that you are not here. Such a senseless tragedy that happened. We have so many WHY questions, why did you work that day? why did you have to go up on the loft? why? why? why? I ask this question all the time. Why didn't you have off that day? why weren't you on the beach that day relaxing in the hot sun, enjoying your day off? None of us get this...so senseless. I wish you would give me a sign that you are ok, or better yet, come see me. I would love to touch your hand, kiss your cheek, hug you so hard, laugh and say crazy things that we shared. You were such an awesome godchild, we shared alot. You just had that special place in my heart. Please be with your mom and dad and Dana. They need you to be with them and assure them that you are ok. Give us all a sign. Maybe a sign on the beach this weekend for July 4th. With all of your family at the shore, it would be great for you to give us a sign that you are ok. We all miss you lots and lots, your smile was like the sunshine, so bright and cheerful. I never remember, ever, seeing you not smiling. You are beautiful inside and outside. No wonder you had so many people attend your funeral. You are the BEST and always will have a special place in my heart. I am missing you all the time. At work I have your beautiful picture right in front of me and look at you all the time. Smiling...of course...I Love you so much and I miss you so much too. You are loved by many, believe me. I Love You my little Bundy, Aunt Linda
Kim Tucci
June 28, 2004
Dear Kell,it was a pleasure having you as my cousin.You were so nice and funny you made me feel so touched. I remember how you would do alot of nice things for me and i remember when we had that little talk about my life and how things were going. I just don't get it why it had to be you? You were the BEST cousin i had. You will ALWAYS be in my heart. In my heart there will always be a hole because i don't have you anymore. There was just a place for you, and now its empty. You are now a peaceful angel in heaven with pop-pop and mom-mom. They are taking care of you up in that wonderful place, HEAVEN. Well i LOVE you lots. If you get a chance visit me, it would be a pleasure to see you now as an angel. I love you and always will love you now and forever and i miss you tons. <3 Kim Tucci (Yimmy)
Shayna Prescott
June 26, 2004
Hey Kel, it's taken me a long time to work up the courage to sign this. i guess i knew when i finally did that it would be admitting i was never gonna get to talk to you or see you again. and that is hard as hell for me to handle. everyday something little and stupid will happen and i think oh my god wait til kel hears about this. and then i get upset because i can't call you. i hardly get online anymore because you're not there to talk to. i really just don't know what to do with myself anymore. a big part of me died with you and i feel empty and unemotional. i don't want to make new friends because they won't understand what i'm going through and they would never be able to take your place. so i'm left with a big hole. i'm going to church to see if that helps but so far nothing has changed. i just don't know how to "live". who will i have girls' movie night with and eat pizza, chips n dip, and doughnuts? who will call me all the time to ask for advice and tell me about their day? who will i call when i just need someone to listen? nobody understood me like you did. i can't watch murder she wrote, the nanny, or charmed without getting upset. i can't listen to p. diddy, pink, build me up buttercup, pour some sugar on me, or any of the other songs we used to sing and dance to in the car without getting depressed. i can't shop in the mall or at target and walmart without reminiscing about our shopping adventures. i'll never order another grilled cheese and ham sandwich without thinking about you having a turkey reuben. sitting in my room makes me upset because there are memories of college and high school events everywhere. i went through our college quotations book and had a few laughs. i thought i'd never see the end of hearing stuff like "milkshake you have," "touche," and "do it up yo." and just when i finally learned the it's raining men dance no one else in florida knows how to do it or will request it. i can't get married now because you were supposed to be my maid of honor. and i can't have kids because they would be deprived of the godmother they were supposed to have. i just feel lost and hopeless all the time. i miss you more than you can ever imagine. i will never forget the good times and am trying hard to let your spirit live on through my actions. thank you for being my "bestest bestest" and i will never have a friend like you again. you are one in a million. send me a sign that you're ok and happy up there. "we may be a thousand miles apart, but i'll be with you wherever you are." lylas
Pete Tucci
June 24, 2004
Dear Kelly Ann (Kel Bell), I can't believe it has been one month and words cannot describe the hurt that is felt in our hearts. It is still unbelievable that something like this could happen to a sweet and lovable young person. You always had a smile on your face whenever I saw you, you were so confident and responsible in what your goals and aspirations in life were. Your heart was always filled with LOVE for the family - our family is so strong and you were a part of the strength that binds us together and helps us through the hurt and sorrow we have for what has happened to you. The family is needing your strength to get us through this. Kel look over Aunt Linda and I -- every day we ask ourselves Why? - This is not right? Why? You will always have a place in our hearts through your love and smile. Love ya, Uncle Pete
christine pomykacz
June 23, 2004
Kelly, I miss you so much and i know you see it. I know you hear me talking to you all day and night. I look at your beautiful picture and remember how beautiful and amazing of a person you were. I remember when i pulled up at my house you were standing there with the biggest smile waiting with a huge hug for me. I was so excited that you were here. We went to lunch and then for a ride and ended up at the mall. We had so much fun together that day. If you were not there I would have left my purse in a store, a package at another store, and my soda that I had just purchased at the food court. All you did was laugh at me the whole time. The ride home was so much fun because we talked about so much. You gave me advice that no one else would give and we shared our stories that only you and I knew about. Not only am I missing my beautiful cousin, I am missing a best friend. I know that you are there with us all and that you will keep me on the right track just like you always did. I had some of the best times with you Kel. I still can't believe any of this is real. You were the one who always held me up and kept me strong through tough times. I know that you are an angel watching me. I will always miss you and always remember the great times we had together. You will always have the biggest place in my heart. I LOVE YOU. Love Chrissy
Linda Tucci
June 21, 2004
Dearest Kelly Ann, Today is Monday, June 21. Yesterday, me, Uncle Pete, Stephanie and Pete visited your grave. This is still unbelievable to all of us. Why you? Why would someone like you be needed?? I just don't get it. No one gets it. Pop-Pop is right below you, and taking good care of you. Kimberlee and Kristina made you a card and I put them on your grave with toothpicks, hope with the winds, they stay on there. It was very hard for all of us to come see you, it is just not fair. So many bad people in this world and you were picked. To me Kelly, you are needed here with us, your family there is no need for you to be gone. I ask all the time is this fair. No its not. I know that pop-pop, mom-mom, Grandmom and Grandpop Martz are all taking good care of you. I wish that I could see you and hold you and let me know that everything is alright. I will try to see you as much as I can. I really don't like going to the cemetery, but I have to so I can visit with you and Pop-Pop. I Love you, you are my angel. I miss you each and every day. Please let me know that you are ok. I Love you and miss you, Love Aunt Linda
Linda Tucci
June 17, 2004
My dearest KellyAnn, I am writing to you on the eve of your one month. Boy, do I miss you. I am still in denial and disbelief, but a part of me does believe that you are not here. I remember the day that you were born. Your mom(my sister) called me at work to tell me that my Godchild had arrived. I was so excited and could not wait to leave work to see the first grandchild on the Tilley side and my first godchild. As your mom and I grew up, we vowed to be in each others wedding and be the first godmother to our first born. As Aunt Bea and I drove to the hospital to see you, it was snowing out, do you believe it in April, we had snow. I ran to the nursery to see you, what a beauty, blonde hair and blue eyes, I called you my Cherub, because that is what you were to me. Your Christening day was so special to me, because I got to dress you in your little christening gown and brush the little curl on the top of your head. You looked beautiful. You were my goddaughter. As the years went by, growing up, we had little names for you like Our little Bundy, not bunny, you said bundy, and you were our little bundy. What a pleasure you were to all of us, you were so spoiled by all of us. You were so special. Gram and pop-pop got a house down the shore and we had so much fun on the beach. Me, your mom, gram and Aunt Bea, would sing to you On the way to cape may and by the end of that day, you knew all the words and sang it with us. You were very intelligent. Time went by, grade school, High school, and you were so beautiful, you had such a special place in my heart Kelly, a place where our closeness as godmother and goddaughter shared. You always smiled, and nothing ever was to big to ask, anytime your cousins would ask you to drive them anywhere, you would be the first to offer. You were so good to everyone. That is just the way you are, very Big hearted. I can't understand why you would be needed right now, it is not fair. My heart is broken, because you are missed and loved by so many people, you have touched so many lives with your love, and kindness. I am grieving for you, to see your beautiful smile and to hear your voice. I love you so much and miss you more than you'll ever know. Some day(I find it hard to say when, maybe never), I will know why God took you from us. I cry for you and hope and pray that this is all a bad dream, but deep in my heart I know that you are in heaven with all the angels, because Kelly Ann, you are an Angel, a special Angel in all of our hearts. You will always be my Goddaughter and you will always be loved by many, especially me. I Love You, Kelly Ann, Love and miss you so much, Aunt Linda
ARLENE DEMARCO
June 4, 2004
TO THE MARTZ FAMILY:
MY NAME IS ARLENE AND ALONG WITH MY SON DANNY WE BOTH WORKED WITH KELLY AT THE CVS IN NORTH WILDWOOD. SHE WAS SPECIAL IN ALOT OF WAYS AND WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THE "SMILE" AND HER SHORTY SHORTS. MY SON AND I WILL KEEP ALL OF YOU IN OUR PRAYERS ... AND ALWAYS KNOW "ANGELS ARE TAKING CARE OF HER NOW ... UNTIL WE ALL MEET AGAIN" ....
Jared Rose
June 4, 2004
My heart and prayers go out to Kelly. I am thankful I had the opportunity to know her. It's just unfortunate her time here was so limited. From the first time I met her, I knew she was a genuine individual. She was always willing to help others in times of need. It was things like this she did that rubbed off on me and I can honestly say that there will always be a little bit of Kelly Ann Martz in me...
Dorie Withey
June 4, 2004
My thoughts and prays are with you. Kelly was an amazing person with a beautiful heart, and she impacted many lives on the University of Florida campus. I had the privledge of working as a resident assistant with her, and I know that she made a difference each day.
Vince Roberts
June 3, 2004
Kelly was an incredible young woman. She made a difference in so many lives here at the University of Florida. I appreciated Kelly's ability to know when I was having a bad day. She always had a smile on her face that could brighten my day. I am thankful that I had the chance to know Kelly and will truly miss her.
Jaclyn Rubio
June 3, 2004
I am so incredibly sorry for what happened to your daughter Kelly. She was a wonderful person and while I did not know her personally, she was a co-worker of mine at UF, her reputation preceeded her. I always heard of her motivation and spunk. She was the kind of person that just seeing her you could tell she made the best out of life.
Eileen Rubert
June 2, 2004
Kelly was a wonderful person. Who always new how to cheer me or anyone else up. We spent the summer patrolling 80 freshman girls. I couldn't have asked for a better partner. When I heard the news, I could not believe. It really affected me and still does. But all I can say is she made many lives better and her memory will stay with us for always. Thank you for bringing her into this life even if it was for a short period, her smile will live on till' the end of time.
Jim Mellon
May 31, 2004
the most precious things we hold
are those the most rare
although it seems cold
we dont like to share.
Neither does God,
so sometimes he takes the best ones back.
Alan Iverson
May 28, 2004
I wish I knew words that could take away your pain. Kelly was a great person and always had a great smile. She had one of those smiles that could warm your heart even if you didnt know her. I dont think I ever saw her without a smile. I was very fortunate to get to know Kelly this past year. Kelly always had an open ear and an open heart. I wish we all had more time with her, and know you do too. She blessed so many lives as an RA and most importantly as a friend. All of our thoughts and prayers go to you and your family.
Myrna Martinez
May 27, 2004
I am deeply sorry for your loss. May God gives you the strengh you and your family need at this time of sorrow. You and your family are in my prayers.
Anne O'Connor
May 26, 2004
My heart goes out to you all. What words can possibly ease your pain? You are in my thoughts and prayers. Sincerest condolences to your family for this terrible loss.
Janice Colon
May 25, 2004
I'm so sorry for your loss. All of you are in my thoughts and prayers.
Lori Corso
May 24, 2004
To the Family of Kelly Ann Martz,
My heartfelt sympathy is with you all, I share your pain at this difficult time. Sheryl & Rusty, I met you at a Christmas party of Sandy Muirs before you moved. I also lost my daughter Lori 3 years ago on May 18th at the age of 21 and have one surviving daughter. PLEASE e-mail me if you would like to talk. There are no words to take away your pain, I wish I could. May you be surrounded by the love of family and friends. Kelly Ann will always be around you, I know this for sure even though it will never be enough. You are all in my thoughts and prayers.
Corey Campbell
May 24, 2004
Kelly was a great co-worker as an RA, and better yet an amazing person. She could brighten up the day with her beautiful smile and sparkling personality. She will truly be missed. My thoughts and prayers are with her and her family.
David Altemose
May 24, 2004
Dear Rusty, Sheryl, and Dana,
I can think of very few people who have touched my life in the way Kelly has. The moment we met she made me feel like one of her closest friends. I have been fortunate enough to witness the same thing happen to every one she met thereafter. This is an unimaginable and untimely loss and the world is a far lesser place without her in it. I cannot even begin to express my sympathies to you all. I only hope that the memories we have of Kelly will become the light in this extremely dark moment in all of our lives. Kelly’s life was cut short, but it was spent making us feel special and all it took was her smile. We all remember her smile, her laugh and all those precious moments she enriched our life. In remembrance comes immortality. Her spirit lives on when we recount these treasured memories and it lives on within our heart. My only hope is that I have in some way managed to give some peace of mind to your family. Kelly was a beloved friend. With a heavy heart I offer my condolences and my prayers. I hope that in time this letter will at the very least ease some of the pain of your loss.
Sincerely,
David Altemose
Perry Epstein
May 24, 2004
Rusty,
Hearing the news about Kelly Ann just made me numb. I think I only met her once, but I know that she must have been personable, smart, warm and caring just as you were. My sincerest sympathies to you, Sheryl, Dana and the rest of your family.
Perry Epstein
Paul Hunter
May 24, 2004
Words cannot describe the loss of a child. Please know that all of your friends at Sterling grieve with you. You are in our thoughts and prayers.
Paul Hunter
Sandy Muir
May 24, 2004
Dear Sheryl, Rusty and Dana,
I am so sorry to hear of Kelly's death. Please accept my deepest sympathy for your loss. I am heart sick that is was not until over this weekend that I found out about kelly's death and was not there to grieve with you. A very close friend of mine lost her daughter on the same day three years ago and her name was Lori Ann and she was also 21 years old. I pray that with GOD's help you will stay strong as a family and always remember the love she had for you and will care for you from her place in GOD's heaven.
Sheryl,I have told our friends in the YMCA aerobics class and they all send their deepest condolences.
You are in my thoughts and prayers.
Shirley Schmelzinger
May 24, 2004
Rusty and family:
There are no words in the English language that can possibly express the sorrow and grief you must be feeling at this time. Please know that you are in my prayers and thoughts. May God be with each of you, and may he give you the comfort that you seek.
Christopher Geiger
May 23, 2004
Rusty, Sheryl, and Dana
Our thought and prayers are with you and your family during this troubling time. Please know that we are here for you and your family if ever needed. As friends of Kenny and Paula's, we have grown close to your extended family and always looked forward to seeing Kelly. Whether it be at parties or down at the shore house, she was always a pleasure to be around. She will be greatly missed, but always in our hearts.
Love, Chris, Tina, and Kaytlyn Geiger
Debra Leidy
May 22, 2004
To All of Kelly's Family,
I had the pleasure of working with Kelly 2 summers ago in North Wildwood. She truly could brighten a room with her presence and her ever-ready smile!!! You are all in my thoughts and prayers!!!! I know Kelly will never be forgotten by anyone whose life she has touched!! So sorry for your loss...
Ted Westervelt, Jr.
May 22, 2004
Rusty,
Our deepest condolences to you and your family. You are all in our thoughts and prayers.
Ted Westervelt Jr. and Family
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