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Michael Homolka
January 12, 2023
I think of you often, Sean. I´m so sorry to have lost touch with you during high school. We had so many great times at the beach, on the tennis court, doing community service at Brentwood together, up to asininities with Andrew Y and Alex M. Thank you for enriching my life.
Michael Crain
December 30, 2022
Thinking of you, Sean. It´s been 15 years tonight. How I wish you were still with us.
Love, Daddy
Michael Crain
December 30, 2020
Dear Sean -
As always, you are in my heart.
Love, Daddy
Michael Crain
March 15, 2020
Dear Sean -
You are always in my heart.
Love, Daddy
Michael Crain
December 30, 2019
Dear Sean -
You are missed and loved always.
Love,
Daddy
Michael Crain
March 15, 2019
Dear Sean -
On today, your 40th birthday, please know that you are always loved and missed. God bless you and keep you.
Love,
Daddy
Michael Crain
December 30, 2018
You are always with us, Sean.
Michael Homolka
August 7, 2018
Dear Sean,
I have only recently learned of your passing. As you remember, I went to Brentwood School with you. We played tennis at the Riviera Tennis Club, and I still have the image in my head of your habit of keeping the ball half-hidden in your hand so you could be the one to start the rally. I remember trips to the beach to boogie board, going to the Third Street Promenade with you and Andrew Yamamoto, and volunteering to feed the homeless with you and your mother one Thanksgiving when you persuaded me to stay just five more minutes. I remember walking down your street once in Santa Monica and your pointing out Robert Zemeckiss house. I was never a very good or thoughtful friend to you, though I tried sincerely in all my young ignorance. Only now do I see the profound value and unimaginably high quality of human being you were. I have thought of your unique sensibility often. You had a rich and, I sensed, complex and perhaps unresolved inner life. Of all my friends growing up, you remain the kindest, most generous soul, as well as the greatest enigma. The world needs more of those with such spirits, but of course it gives us less. I am grateful nevertheless to be blessed with your memory. The purest parts of the world live on through your presence.
Michael Homolka
Michael Crain
March 15, 2018
Dear Sean -
On this 39th anniversary of your birth, you are missed and loved forever. Daddy
Michael Crain
December 30, 2017
Dear Sean -
Now it has been ten years. May God bless and keep you always and wipe away every tear. Missing you always.
Love, Daddy
Michael Crain
March 15, 2017
Dear Sean - I was at Woodlawn today remembering when I first saw you as you entered this world 38 years ago. You will always be alive in my heart. Love, Daddy
Michael Crain
December 30, 2015
Dear Sean -
Once again this sad anniversary is here. As with every day, I miss you and love you.
Daddy
June 16, 2015
Dear Sean,
I am saddened to learn of your departure from this world. I was a classmate in elementary school; how perfect your penmanship always was! You sat right behind me, always quiet and always good. You, a tender and gentle soul, are remembered and cherished. I think about you sometimes out of the blue, for what reason I do not know, but I always picture you smiling. May God grant your family peace and comfort.
Michael Crain
March 15, 2015
Dearest Sean -
It is now your 36th birthday. How you are missed. You will always be my beautiful boy. Love and peace. Daddy
Michael Crain
December 30, 2014
Dearest Sean – now it has been seven years since you left us. Again I pray that you have found the peace you could not find here. I see you in so many places where we used to go. Your daddy misses you so.
Michael Crain
March 15, 2014
Dearest Sean -
Today on your 35th birthday I left flowers for you at Woodlawn. You will truly be alive in my heart forever. May God bless and keep you. Love, Daddy
Michael Crain
December 30, 2013
Dear Sean - It has been six years since you left us. I miss you and think about you every day. I pray that you have found the peace you could not find here. Love, Daddy
March 15, 2013
Dear Sean - Today is your 34th birthday. The same age I was when you were born. How I miss you. I think of you always, my beautiful boy.
Love, Daddy
Michael Crain
March 27, 2012
Sean my beautiful boy - I truly believe that God will wipe away every tear and that he has wiped away yours. You are always with me. Love, Daddy
Michael Crain
December 30, 2011
My wonderful boy. I miss you so much. Rest in eternal peace.
Michael Crain
March 15, 2011
My beautiful boy -
Happy 32d. Spring is almost here and I think of our baseball seasons. I wish you were here, Sean and, if I could bring you back to have the life here which you deserved, I would. We will be together again someday. You are my wonderful boy.
Love, Daddy
December 30, 2010
Dearest Sean -
Now it has been three years since you left us. Everyone here misses you so much. I left flowers at Woodlawn today. I pray that you are at peace. You are with me always in my heart and my mind. My love to my wonderful boy. Daddy
March 15, 2010
March 15, 2010
On your 31st birthday I am thinking of you, Sean. My beautiful boy. I went to Woodlawn and left yellow flowers. They symbolize the brightness you brought to my life. On the way I passed by the Little League field and visualized you there batting and catching a pop fly at third base. It all went by too fast. All my love to you always.
Daddy
Michael Crain
December 30, 2009
Dear Sean - Now it has been two yesrs since you left us. How I miss you. I know that you are in a better place and that God truly does wash away all tears. Tonight there was a full moon. Every time there is one it symbolizes me the light of heaven and your being there when I arrive. My love to you Sean. Daddy
karen crain
December 30, 2009
Dear Sean,
Today it has been two calendar years
since your death. Time takes on a
different dimension when it relates
to matters of the heart. In so many
significant ways, you are still so
very much alive. You might have been
shy in the world, but when you felt
safe, you had an intensity of spirit
that left a lasting impact. So often,
I think of all of our conversations
and the depth of the feelings that you
conveyed. Your last words of appreciation will remain with me for the
rest of my life. I hope that you have spent the last couple of years
experiencing the peace that eluded you
in the latter part of your life.
My love always,
Aunt Karen
Michael Crain
December 30, 2008
Dear Sean -
Today is the first anniversary of that saddest of days when I learned that you had died. I think of you every day and miss you perhaps more than anyone knows. I recall that day when I know you were telling me, "I'm OK, Daddy." I believe that you are OK, and that in the passage of time we will be together again. I love you, my dearest son. Daddy
Michael Crain
November 7, 2008
Dearest Sean -
Today we placed your headstone at last. Beloved son and brother. How much we miss you. I know that the butterfly was a sign from you that you are with God and have peace everlasting. My love to you, Sean. Daddy
Michael Crain
June 15, 2008
Dear Sean - Today is the first Father's Day you have not been with me since 1978, the year before you were born. How quickly the last year has gone. It seems like only moments ago you and Katie and I were having lunch together in Venice. She and I spent the afternoon together. We talked about you and how much we miss you. May you rest in peace. I will love you forever. Daddy
Michael Crain
March 15, 2008
On this, your 29th birthday, I am thinking of you, young fella. I pray that, as I said in your eulogy, you are happy and safe. I miss you, Sean, and there will never be a day when I do not think about you. Love, Daddy
Salli Takenaka
March 3, 2008
Sean was inquisitive, playful, beautiful to look at, with a great warm smile. He was sensitive, appreciative, and academically and physically high- achieving. In Sean's photo album, I see many, many occasions ...mutual birthdays, holiday gatherings, special occasions, where joy and fun and happiness was shared by all. I will cherish all these memories. I miss Sean!! God bless him!!! Love, Aunt Salli
Denise Crain
March 3, 2008
Sean, if I've heard your dad tell it once, I've heard him tell it 100 times - the sweet story of how when you were little and playing baseball with the other kids, you picked dandelions and watched butterflies instead of watching for the ball. It will always be one of his favorite memories of you. I believe you are on another adventure now, one we will all eventually experience, but here, you will always be alive in the hearts of all who loved you, never forgotten, and always missed. We will always be sending you thoughts of love and best wishes! Love, Denise
Virginia Crain
March 3, 2008
Dearest Sean: May God hold you in His loving arms and may you rest in peace
forevermore. Please know how very much your family loved you and always will.
It's not goodbye, it's till we meet again. Te amo, my Sean. Love, Gram
Karen Crain
March 3, 2008
What I will remember most about Sean are his dancing eyes and winning smile. When he charged into the house on 17th St., you felt his enthusiasm and enjoyment of the absurd. Now that he's gone, I will remember him as The Little Prince who touched my life, imagining him telling me, just as Antoine De Saint-Exupery's prince had encouraged,
"You'll have stars like nobody else. And when you look up at the sky at night, since I'll be living on one of them, since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh! ... You'll feel like laughing with me. And you'll open your window sometimes just for the fun of it ... And your friends will be amazed to see you laughing while you're looking up at the sky. Then
you'll tell them, 'Yes, it's the stars; they always make me laugh!' And they'll think you're crazy. It'll be a nasty trick I played on you..." Love, Aunt Karen
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