Benjamin Gerd Mrongowius
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October 26, 2014
October 26, 2014
October 26, 2014
October 26, 2014
My Dearest Son,
2years 2months and 3 days you have been gone from us, When I allow myself to really acknowledge this I just fall to pieces. So I don't go to that place for very long.
I know that this site is to help those that have lost a loved one to feel some comfort in expressing their thoughts. A place where if they choose to they can open their hearts and put words to paper where they wouldn't normally express themselves vocally. A place where in your written words you feel closer to the one you have lost or to have that effect. The mind is always searching for reasons and here you feel that maybe it just isnt as important to find that reason, to put a blame somewhere, to feel betrayed or angry. Here you just feel that peace and oneness you search for while you try and bury pain and lonliness of your loss. Here you comfort yourself and search for only a connection through your words that bring you closer to the one you have lost.
I know Ben that I can be anywhwere to have you with me. I have and hold you each and every day in my heart. While it still beats I will hold you forever close there. Maybe that will make it easier, I don't know. Its a constant work in progress and I guess it will be until we meet again.
I'm going to stop writing here but I'll do it elsewhere ... I have been writing but it seems they didn't make it to the site, but that's ok. I will write in my mind and in my heart and on paper. I will talk to you as I always have when I'm alone or driving in my car or conversations that I have in my head constantly with you. Thats really the best place .:) Most of all - I love it when you come in my dreams. It isn't often but when I think upon them I can smile because it always it so real. This last one was the best honey- to hear your voice and especially to feel your arms around me and then to feel the three us together as we were.
The time has gone by and I wonder what has happened. The days, weeks and months, but at times it is like yesterday.
Lexy and I keep you with us through it all. The new school year, her volleyball, acheivements, and the struggles are there too. We go on, because we know that is what we should do. My hope and belief is that what I had spent nearly some 50 plus years hearing about is true. That all is well and there is a better place. That someday we will all be together again. Faith, the belief in the unknown and things not seen. I can wish all I want for things that I didn't do or say but I have to believe that in your heart you knew how much I love you and how proud I was and am to have a son like you.
So for now, here , this is where I will leave this. I will love you forever and always and a day.
Momma~
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Momma
October 23, 2014
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May 22, 2014
Hello my son - You have no idea how hard this continues to be for me. Memorial weekend is coming up this weekend and i always think of how we would have friends over and have crabs and just enjoy the family.
I finally got a letter from Chris M. and it made me smile. I actually teared up reading it because I could feel the love and sincerity in his words. It was like you were writing to me just when i needed you the most. You are always there.
I remember you saying all the time to me "I will never leave you momma" and I guess you haven't. I don't have you here to hold and touch but I can rememeber the feel and smell of you and that gets me through. The memories and seeing your pictures everyday is what keeps me going through all this.
I love you Ben
~Momma
April 21, 2014
I am missing you so much. words cant describe.
Always and forever,
Cass
Lexy
January 29, 2014
Chunk. Today is Marcus and Matthews bday. I know you were with them like always. I'm missin you more than ever. I find myself struggle, weak. I always turned to you when I needed a pep talk. I look for you but I can't find you. Please be with nana and grandpa..they need you more than ever. I wish I wasn't so far from them or I wish I could fill the hole in their hearts. I know they both do miss n love you so much. I feel like your presence needs to be with them. School hasn't been easy and I wanna go home more n more. My 21st is comin so bad and I thought I would be way more excited. I guess I'm not cuz I jus wish you were there with me when I bring in my bday. I wonder where your at or when your goin to give me hints on situations in my life. I feel lost. Most times I feel like things crumble in front of me and I jus don't know how to fix it or jus don't want to. I jus don't want to hurt anymore. I am never goin to be at peace with you being gone even when I thought I was at a point. I'm having a hard time forgiving n you always helped me forgive. I jus miss you a lot chunk. Nothin feels right without you... I still search for answers cuz maybe answers will bring me close to you. I love you so much n always will.
Always with your sister
January 1, 2014
Another Year 2014 the second one without you :( I see you everyday here at the house -all the memories - Lex is home we talk about you, cry because it still is so fresh without you in our lives. Others have moved on- and they should, but I can't as much as I try it seems that it is harder. For us your family that bond will ever be broken, we just find ways to get us from one point to another. I try to see the reason to this and just cant. I know others have gone through what I am going through as a mother and they I think for the most part survive, I still am coping . Today is just another day without you in our family. I hate it , I truly do and at times I yell out loud to God to why and how can he take you from those who love you for you and love you as family loves one another an as a mother loves her child and how a sister loves her brother. We didn't have much but we had trust and honesty and above all love for each other. I need your guidance - sometimes I think god keeps you from my dreams too. Just to test me. You can see why I have not come to terms with all this. So much changes and people move on and sometimes I get angry- I know its the right thing for them to do but it still angers me. They aren't directly one with us so it is natural for this to happen. Sometimes its just hard to see but I get it.
Ben - I will always love you - I will always cry and be sad in my heart because you aren't here -that will be a given.
Make some noise up there - shake it up a bit! I hope and pray that when it is my time -I will be with you again.
Love Momma
December 31, 2013
Happy New Year's Eve. I remember the last New Years we spent together and the last one we couldn't stop talking about how we didn't. Look over everyone tonight like I'm sure you always do. Your missed more than you could ever realize.
Love always cass
December 25, 2013
Merry Christmas Benny - Its just not the same without you here with us .... I cry and cry and look for you everywhere , but I can't find you ....I don't understand why .... I love you as much as always son
Momma
12/25/13
December 24, 2013
As per usual I've been missing you but today I went to church with my dad and Heidi... A big deal right? Well they were talking about eternal life after death and Jesus mourning with us.. I couldn't stop thinking about you Heidi told me to listen that maybe I'll find comfort. The entire time Phebe had been holding my hand but when I felt like I was gonna lose it I looked down to hide my tears and then I saw on Phebes wrist was the braclet with your name on it. I can't explain how I felt, happy, sad, amazed, blessed. Make sure you visit ma and lex especially around Christmas they'd love to feel your love..
Love always
Cass
December 17, 2013
I bet you had a few good laughs watching over us this weekend. It was my birthday and i cant put into words how much i wish you had been there. So many things happened that my first thoughts were "oh my lanta benjamin would be dying right now if he were witnessing this" There were random moments of laughter that i swore i could hear your chuckle right alongside ours. Hopefully i get to see you soon.. I miss you so much. Mom got me some beautiful flowers and had some margaritas with me during lunch. We facetimed lex, and im pretty sure she thought we were out of our minds. Ma and Linda also sang happy birthday and got me a nice chocolate bundt cake (yes i said bundt in a awkward voice). It was so nice. Missing you like crazy.
Love Always,
Cass
We always said these 4 days were some of the best in our lives, and we wished star upon star how we wish we could go back.
December 11, 2013
December 11, 2013
I wish you were here. I wish i could talk to you, ask for your advise or guidance. I miss you everyday, think about you everyday, look and listen for you everyday. Music has been the best and worse thing for me through this. Some songs make me laugh like the ones we used to have inside jokes to... But mostly they make me miss you and get this heart wrenching feeling. Lately the song that describes all of this perfectly is Lana Del Rey's song Dark Paradise. Saying that on here made me giggle for the first time about it because i know if you heard i, you would just slap me and say i need to listen to happier music like you used to all the time. But its perfect it describes everything in such an amazingly, crazy, perfect way. Everyone's missing you so much Ben please visit and stay close even if its only in our dreams.
Love Always,
Cass
December 7, 2013
Always in my heart and my thoughts love you Ben
momma
December 1, 2013
Well Thanksgiving has come and gone and I missed you terribly, I cried several times on that day . Lexy is almost done with her first semester then she'll be home for a bit over Christmas break. Jason and Cassidy were here for dinner and Xavier came by afterwards. I'm so glad he finished his mechanics school. You'd be proud of him too. I'm trying to remember if you come to me in my dreams....but I'm having a hard time ...please come see me.. help me to remember baby please.
I love you ...
`momma
November 4, 2013
I knew the time was coming that they would close this site and I couldn't lose you again .... I just want you here with me baby ... I miss you so much an I just can't seem to move on... no matter how I try its just as painful now as then... I still cry almost everyday if not everyday .... I just don't know Ben... but I have you still here for another year and that will have to do for now I guess...I just can't have you leave again .... I love you , miss you more than words...
`Momma
October 31, 2013
Happy Halloween, i don't write on here enough and i know that. But as we have made it through the anniversary of you going to heaven and your birthday, I sit here on Halloween missing you just as much as day one, if not more. I laugh/cry thinking about all the Halloweens you tried to not dress up but you realized it was my favorite holiday so you always tried getting into it. I wish i could post the pic of us dressed up but i think ma has it. Your missed so much, in all the tragedies i have witnessed i don't think i have ever seen people react this way. Have a good Halloween, you don't know how much i wish i was spending mine with you. Miss you so much
Always, Cass
October 11, 2013
Happy Birthday Ben ... I miss you terribly but I will see you soon ...Love Momma~
October 2, 2013
Hey Its October, Missing you and already thinking about your birthday. I've been at my job for 2 months now and I leave so early in the morning I think about you all the time driving the big truck up Indian Head Hwy and wish I could see you, but usually its your caddi that comes by me. This weekend is family weekend at the college, I'll bring you along and hold you close in my heart. The tears still come and the hurt and loneliness of you not here is still very present baby. I wish to have you come more often, but maybe you can't I don't know.... I love you now and forever.
~momma
September 7, 2013
You know baby - Not a single day or hour passes me by without a thought or smile of you. I call your name out I talk out loud to you , its almost as it was, like when you worked all the time and I didn't see you as often... In my head, you are there always, just you are and will always be in my heart. I still haven't put it all right in my heart and soul and I don't know if I ever will. I want so much for the time to go and we can be together again.... as a family. Lex is back at college and I will be heading up there this morning.... with you baby always every where I go I take you with me. Stay close honey ...love you forever and always!
momma
found this pic, its when you came up to school. n xavier came with you. i always miss you coming up to school n seeing me....always.
lex
August 7, 2013
Lex
August 7, 2013
Hey Chunk.. Ive been missing you a lot lately. I cant seem to get out a slump. I look for you thinking you could help me in all my situations, but you just cant. it seems so hard for me to be confident in myself, decisions, and place in life. great things are happening and im so happy, but I just wish I could find a neutral ground for me to stand on. I cant believe in just a few short weeks, it will be a year since you passed. its so unreal. idk how to do it anymore. everyone misses you more than words, please stay close. you know who needs you. im still awaiting the day til I see you again, I hope its not long. I love you Chunk, be easy in Heaven.
July 21, 2013
I can't tell you how often durning these past weeks I have balled my eyes out Ben. You are constantly in the fore front of thoughts. It still hurts so deeply, and so many changes are happening or will be happening and I wish I had you here by my side to give me your quirky remarks and just to say it will all work out. I think part is because grandpas birthday is tomorrow and he just loved you so much Ben, none of us can take that place in his heart. I found a job finally... just so many things .....and still trying to work out stuff for lexy and her school next month. Its all just so overwhelming right now. Its going to be a year and I have no idea of the time that has pasted... its just as if it were yesterday to me.
I was mowing yesterday and there you were ....or your butterfly... and I said Benny! and smiled ...because it was a hard day yesterday. None of the days that have passed have been easy. I see alot of people have moved on... which is good, I know that you still hold a special place in all of their hearts, but its so hard for Lex and I to do this, but we try to face what we need to. My life is forever changed. I miss you so much baby... love you always.
`momma"
June 18, 2013
momma
June 18, 2013
Hey baby-
I could just write to you every day but I know that you know how hard this is. I still cry , I still get depressed, I still wonder and wish it all is just a bad dream...but I know that it isn't and it still tears my heart apart missing you as I do. I'm still angry with God about this, why you? I got a wonderful letter yesterday from someone who also loves you. Everyone loves you Ben, both of you. Its hard for people to have a conversation with me and thats ok, I still can't get through one about you without the tears welling up. I try but it just hasn't happened yet. I do better with your friends, they miss you soo much too. I wish you would come to me again, its the only reason I go to sleep.... always hoping for that glimpse or hearing your voice, seeing you smile. I know you will be there when it is possible and I will always wish for it son. I miss you so much words just can't describe it.
~momma
June 4, 2013
So my son - I know that you were with us in Florida... Nana and Gramps miss you soo much. Grandpa tries to be strong, but its so very hard... its very hard for all of us, but I guess you know that. I can't imagine what its like seeing us and we can't really see you except it our minds and dreams, feel you in our hearts and at times right with us. Each of us just wants to know that all is good. I suppose you have a work that you're doing in heaven my son, but it doesn't make it any easier.
I made a decision and moved some things around, you know , and Im figuring that you are ok with it all. Thank you for the precious moments I had of you in my dreams... even at a distance. I woke up smiling, I told you I wouldn't go crazy if you came to me.Just seeing you at a distance and hearing your voice has been helpful in coping. My heart aches just the same as the day I lost you and I still cry everyday. But after all this time it has been wonderful to see you and I beg you to keep coming Ben, please I feel so guilty that I couldn't get to you. I will always love you and be proud of you!
May 20, 2013
Well it happened again, it seems music is the thing that still effects me most. I attempted my second luke bryan concert this weekend since youve been gone and no matter what i did as soon as i heard the song start i lost it. I wish you were here, i wish you could have stayed, i wish you could be a part of the memories were all trying to make (other than the fact that i think about you constantly during them). So i cried my tears and when the song was done took a deep breath and smiled for everyone around me, cause i know so many miss you too. You taught me how to be strong, and im always gonna try for you. I had my first dream in awhile with you in it. Ill spare this guest page the details but it hurt to wake up cause even though you werent talking directly to me the entire time seeing you felt real and heart filling... I love you, and so does so many others,, ill never understand why you left but we all are here for each other and i know your happy to see all the love and support. talk to you soon.
Love Always,
Cass
lexy
April 23, 2013
That made me really sad. The first message I wrote didn't save. I told you that I haven't been on here in all these months and I was sorry I jus wasn't ready. I miss you so much and so does everyone else. Ma n me fall apart all the time, especially when I'm home. I miss walking upstairs n seeing you in your room. Or asking for clothing advice. Or asking me to make you food n I called you fat. So many things.I struggle a lot now, with friends, and school. I can't seem to get out this slump. I jus really need you chunk. Ill write more soon.
April 22, 2013
You seem to pop up where ever i go, in whatever i do, and how ever i feel that day. There is no escaping you or the feelings that come with remembering your not here. Words can not describe how much one more day would mean to so many people around here still trying to deal with this. missing you more and more.
love always and forever,
Cass
lexy
April 21, 2013
idk if what i'm writing is showing up....ughhhhh.
April 21, 2013
My tattoo design is also coming along. I cant wait to get it, although I hate pain. you're worth it though. love you chunk..
`momma
April 16, 2013
I started going to Grief classes last night... I cried through most of it....I miss you so much Ben.... I wish we could talk with each other or that you could come visit me in my dreams....
Ben, Mick Meyer,
April 6, 2013
Mick Myers gift to us
April 5, 2013
Mick Meyer posted to Ben Mrongowius
September 28, 2012
I had this made for you Bro, as well as for others. I wanted something I could always carry with me as a piece of you. You will never be lost or forgotten as you are carried with me and many others until we meet again.
S.Y.O.T.O.S. Bro
April 5, 2013
Zach O'Dell shared Kristen Law's photo.
August 23, 2012
You've been taken far too soon. Gonna miss you Ben
April 4, 2013
Hunter Penzenstadler
August 23, 2012 near Waldorf
Hunter Penzenstadler posted this.
Rest in peace Ben, you will always be my best friend, and i will always climb mountains with you. I will always be there for your family...the only bad thing is I already miss you and I want you back right now. I love you
Marcus & Ben
April 4, 2013
Marcus Ogren posted to Ben Mrongowius
August 23, 2012 near La Plata
Once more into the fray.
Into the last good fight I'll ever know.
Live or die on this day.
Live or die on this day.
"the grey"
I'll tell you what buddy you will never know what you did to me leaving me here by myself man , it was me and you to the end. You are by best friend in the world and that will never change. I love you man , my time to see and hear your voice will not come soon enough !!! There is not enough time on this earth for me to tell all the good things about you and all the good times we had together. I'll see you later brother. Don't have much fun without me.
PS- “they call me crab cake”
Love you man!!!!
Easter Day w/Ben 3.31.3
April 4, 2013
March 31,2013
Happpy Easter to The best big brother in the world! We went to visit you today. Deandre got ma flowers yesterday so she took a few and gave them to you. It's the pink ones. Uncle Bruce n maryellen also came. We went to church today. I saw the Mitchell's! I know you loved that family. It was great seeing you like always. Aunt geli said hello n hugs and kisses. Cassidy also said the same. I miss you chunk. I love you! See you soon
Lexy
March 31, 2013
Happy Easter my son ! I love you ...i wish we were together. Soon my son , soon we will be together again. Love you now and forever and always.
~momma
3.16.2013
March 17, 2013
We made a nice beach area around your plaque honey... it looked great! Karla had brougt back some sand and shells from down at Nana's and Grandpa's beach "Golden Sands" and we spread it all around as a group and even put some golf tees around. it looked great. We still kinda kidded around about digging you up ...vacation with Benny instead of vacation with Ernie...LoL ...I know you were there listening. Thanks so much for the sunshine! everyone else had rain, but you made it special for us. i love you...miss you and only live for when we all can be together again.
~momma
Ben's ronze Memorial Plaque
March 13, 2013
~momma
March 13, 2013
Well my baby you now have a proper marker. I think that it is beautiful just as you are and always will be. Lexy and I will be there this saturday to spend some time with you... not a day has gone by that my heart aches for you, and tears run down my face., not a day Ben- This is what keeps me going when i read something like this- "God sees the injustice. He knows what they took. If you will let God settle your case, He will not only give you what you deserve, but God will pay you back with even more." There will be no greater reward until the day that we are together again. I love you now the same as before and the same tomorrow my son ... now, forever and always...
~momma
February 21, 2013
I'm having issues today concentrating.... I've been adding pictures and crying and then not ... part of me knows but the other part just wants to say you're on a trip out of the country.... its denial, I know, but it just shouldn't be what it clearly is honey...missing you so much today and every day ..... :(
February 21, 2013
Bens Beach gang
February 21, 2013
Ken,Ben Lexy Karla @ the Circus
February 21, 2013
February 21, 2013
Ben with Chris M
February 21, 2013
hugging the clubs/xmas in fort washington md.
February 21, 2013
at the National Zoo / Roller skating with dad
February 21, 2013
Holding on to his sister always
February 21, 2013
February 27, 2010
February 21, 2013
Graduation 2008
February 21, 2013
Christmas 2010
February 21, 2013
Ben & Lex 2008
February 21, 2013
Ben and Kevin D.
February 21, 2013
by Lexy 02/19/2013
~momma
February 19, 2013
Well I went to Rosemont to be with Lexy for her 20th Birthday... I know you were watching us....Lex misses you so much Ben, we all do ... But I know that you are aware of this too ... She posted a picture on facebook which I'm adding here on your site too. Continue to watch over us ... I will not stop waiting for you honey ... love you always and forever... soon we will be together again.
~momma
February 14, 2013
Happy Valentines Day -
I miss you so much. My heart just won't stop aching for you baby....
I love you.
`momma
February 4, 2013
Hi Honey-
I know you heard me ....yesterday was SuperBowl 2013 XLVII (47) and the Ravens won. Grandpa was hoping for the 49ners -he was staying with in the conference but you know me...Redskins first then the Ravens!! I"m not sure but I think you would have gone for the 49ners also...LOL.It was an exciting game.
Nana and Grandpa also got the picture of your memorial and they love it! We all miss you so much. I love you Ben ... I wish and always hope to see you ... you're always in my mind and in my heart honey, that will never change.Love you baby ..
January 26, 2013
my babies sleeping...always close to each other
January 25, 2013
Cassidy
January 24, 2013
Hey puppy,
so as you know i haven't been very public with my writings or feelings... i started a journal just for memories and thought of you so i never lose anything. Its hard to keep up with it because of how emotional it makes me but i think it will be good for me in the end. But i thought i would share an interesting experience i had with you. This past weekend i spent a lot of time with phebe and one night in the car she started playing a song and i couldn't keep the tears back like i usually try to in front of people but i couldn't stop crying it hurt to much. After the song was done phebe noticed what had happened and i apologized for getting upset in front of her. Then she grabbed my hand and said cassidy i know how much you love ben and i can see it even more now then she told me how in her religion class at church they were talking about dealing with loss and sometimes good people get taken away. She told me how she cried and shared your story with the whole class. how she talked about what a good person you are and how much you helped her, would do little things like take her to eat, or pick her up from the airport, how you always made her laugh and how she didnt understand why such a good person could be takin from here. well as you probably already know i lost it even more. Ben you touched so many lives; ones your probably didn't even realize that you did. I miss you more and more everyday, i realized a couple months ago its gonna get worse before it gets better. there isn't a second that passes by that i don't wish you were still here, or i could hear your voice, or hold you. i miss you and love you more than words can describe. The feeling and pain i get when i tell myself your not here or i wake up in the morning and realize it wasn't just a bad dream is indescribable. I hope you know how loved you are. See you soon
Forever & Always
~momma
January 14, 2013
Hi my baby,
I still can't get through a day without tears...I find myself constantly hoping that I will see you or feel your presence.... I don't know if its right or wrong to want it but I do, and I will continue to look, hope , wish and need it my son. Its a new year ... What is happening with you? You were taken from this earth for a greater need....
I am hoping that your friends have taken this experience and have made changes... I know that theymiss you terribly and some say they have made made changes ... I hope so... We never found your phone and I told Lex we should just move on from that... if it was to be it would have been. I miss you ...I know I say it all the time...but I also said it when you were here... you were always running here or there... I love you son.
December 25, 2012
Merry Christmas my baby .... I love you!
~momma
Summer 2011
December 24, 2012
Florida 7/27/2004
December 24, 2012
RIP 10/11/1990 - 8/23/2012
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December 24, 2012
Morning Baby....
Today is Christmas Eve, Lex is still in bed...she has to work later on this evening, we'll do something tomorrow . I can't say in words how much I would still like to wake up from a horrible nightmare I'm having.. I still wish that it isn't so. I cry everyday for you.... I know you're fine in heaven, but i'm not fine here on earth without you. Merry Christmas Ben ..Please come see me soon.... Loving you forever and always,
~momma
December 14, 2012
Hey Ben,
Mom asked me to write on this awhile ago and i feel absolutely terrible i haven't but its been to hard for me to say things or even process everything i want to say. Every day is a constant new emotion, feeling, memory and I'm constantly torn between heartbreak and happiness in those memories. Every morning i wake up heartbroken because your the first person i think of and then realize your not here... Yesterday was my birthday and it was especially hard not having you. You know how i get on my birthdays how I've always been let down by the ones i thought closest to me but not you. You were always there no matter what you always did whatever i wanted even if it annoyed you, you made sure i had some kind of smile on my face regardless of the situation, and made sure that i did have faith that people genuinely cared about me. You would have loved it Amanda and Alexis surprised and decorated my office with a few gifts it was beautiful. They have been such a great support i think they knew i needed something to inspire and keep me going this year.. even Jason offered to be my DD (and you know how big of a deal that is lol.) you would have loved the basket full of 22 wine bottles, the gross shot of tequila at lunch, and the dinner i had with mom. God they miss you so much, we all do. I know your watching over them and will never fully leave your love for your family is so inspirational. Lex and i had a little convo about it yesterday. I think she knew that it was gonna be a tough day for me without you but she reminded me your always there especially then, even if it feels impossible at times. They are so strong ben, mom and lex have an unbelievable strength and I know how proud you are. Im sorry i havent written on here i will try more i swear. Its been one thing to be sad but to actually say things i feel has brought another level of sadness i never knew was possible. I love you ben I am so glad i have all our memories.. Stay close especially to mom and lex.
~Momma
December 9, 2012
Hi Baby,
I did the sunday call to grandpa to talk about the game highlights. He misses your conversations so much ...I hear it in his voice always ...I don't compare to what you guys talked about..I just want to be there for him too as it is so difficult for all of us...I don't know how we will get through this ...but I go on for Lex..and try to be strong for her as she tries to be for me ...we all are still coping as i'm sure you know. I pray for strenght and guidance for all of us.
I hollered out your name tonight ...we beat the Ravens and I know that you would be stomping and carrying on also ..it brought you closer... not that you are ever far from us. I hold you close in my heart and thoughts always son ... you know that. Forever and always I will love you and be proud of you... never forget that ..
Go Skins ! 1991
November 27, 2012
December 1991
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November 27, 2012
November 22, 2012
Happy Thanksgiving Day baby! ....we were so glad to have it with you. Missing you more than words can express.
Love you now and always...
Momma
Holger Mrongowius
November 20, 2012
Dear Ben,
thank you for being my son.
I miss you dearly,this earthly separation is only temporarily.The day will come when we can see each other again.There will be only tears of joy,comfort and eternal peace.How do I long for this day.In the meantime You will never be forgotten because You will live in my heart forever.There is so much to say but words fail me.
In love,
Dad.
November 18, 2012
Your light is our guide ....now and forever
Momma
November 11, 2012
Hey baby-
I went to church today... not our church another one... I know you were good with it because I found your Angel...I went to hear aunt Geli sing...it was beautiful... i even went up for communion which I have never done except for at our church..... I cried standing there...had tears in my eyes... I'm sure that they thought I was nuts.... but, it all went well - I got beautiful flowers from them ...I wish we could be together, I hope the time comes quickly when we are together again... my heart aches soo much for you Ben... I don't know what to do...our chain is broke and I don't know how to fix it....I love you son ...
.Ben w/ Devil Rays Team
Melanie Buck
November 8, 2012
~Momma
November 8, 2012
Hi Baby - Melanie posted a picture today of you when you played ball with the devil rays .... you looked adorable... I cried of course ....and others saw the picture and reflected on it also... it was wonderful . I will add it to the pictures here in the book from her.Love you son.....
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Momma
November 5, 2012
Hi baby-
I went on my camping trip and lexy and deandre, rasheeda and brinlee came for a night. It was real nice.... this was gonna be the year that you had Linda's camper and were going to come up too. I miss you just as much now as before. Everyday... please watch over us...we love you son.
Redskin Ben
October 25, 2012
Benny @1 1/2 months
October 25, 2012
momma
October 25, 2012
I don't know what will be from one day to the next Ben. My heart cries for you everyday. I wonder what I will do.... knowing that your not here with us. Lexy and I feel so lost without you.... every day is a struggle...so many feelings and unanswered questions to deal with..... I forget what day it is and sometimes the hours are gone ...I don't even know how I spent my day other than in thought with you.
I love you...
momma
October 24, 2012
Love you Ben..... Missing you bunches!
October 16, 2012
Momma
October 16, 2012
Hi baby... I'm sure you know that Lex has gone out to Colorado to be with your father and family for a few days. We haven't talked about it, but I'm sure Lexy is saying...This is the trip you were going to take with her. I know you're there with her in spirit.Give her a hug baby ...she needs to feel you when it is possible.
I loved you'd smiling down at us when we where sending you love hearts on your birthday at the college. For me.. it gave me some comfort to know you were there. We all loved watching those hearts fly high in the night sky to you. It was quite an experience. It helped all of us and we shared it with many people on facebook and they loved it too.
Every day I go in your room and talk with you and every night I say good night to you and I love you .... I still find myself looking out the window upstairs for your car to be in the driveway when I get up in the morning. I still cry and I still wish you were here with us. I'm trying to get myself together so I can work again...hopefully that process will 2 fold...help my mind and also be able to support your sister while she's still in school.
I love you Ben..... Please walk with me when you can... no one will ever forget all that you are. Watch over Lexy when I can't- she needs to feel you with her.
Love Momma
Kayla McGinnis
October 12, 2012
Ben this has been the hardest 8 weeks of my life I never lost a best friend before my head and emotions are so out of wack idk how to handle it. I break down almost everyday but then I stop and think you wouldn't want me to be upset you would do anything to put a smile on my face. I have dreams with you in them
And I never want to wake up bcuz it feels so real....you've touched my heart in a way no one else has I couldn't ask for a better best friend you have been there for me for years no matter the situation. I love you so much. Watch over your mom and lex they really need you , we all do. Keep celebrating up there :) I can't wait to meet again :)
momma
October 11, 2012
Happy birthday love you son
momma
October 10, 2012
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