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Angie Christine
June 2, 2025
Hey Brad...
Just a fan here, and have been one since the late 90's. We would be about the same age now. I took some time to read some of the memories here on the guestbook, before posting.
I'm down here from Canada, working in NC. I didn't know if I'd ever get to pay my respects to you, but I will be doing so tomorrow.
I don't want to take up too much space. Just wanted to say to those who had the chance to be a part of his life, how very lucky you all have been. He and I had a similar upbringing, and he doesn't know how much he helped me get through it.
Thank you, Brad.
Love,
Angie Christine.
CQ
June 1, 2025
I don´t really know you but I love you. RIP
KKL
January 16, 2025
Don´t worry...I won´t ever forget you.
Anna Peters
July 16, 2024
I loved his actor work in many films. May God bless his soul.
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Jerry Rhinehart
May 3, 2024
His acting in The Cure
Bonny Timblin
February 7, 2024
He was fantastic in the movie
"The client"
Amazing kid.
A Fan
January 29, 2024
Brad,
I'm only a fan but reading all these messages people have left for you made me tear up. You were so loved!! You will be remember by everyone who loves you, including me. I hope you're happy in heaven.
Wendy Garrett
January 28, 2024
Was just thinking of watching my favorite movie, Bully. That's my all time favorite movie that you & Nick Stahl did. I didn't realize the pain you both were going through but you were brilliant! As a big fan of yours, it hurts to know how rough it was for you. But I hope you're at peace now. Thank you for the wonderful films you left for us to cherish! You will forever be a favorite of mine. God bless your family & friends who had the privilege of knowing you & loving you! You really are an inspiration to our generation! Never forgotten! Fly high
H T
January 14, 2024
Sixteen years without you, sweet boy. You are so loved and so incredibly missed. I love you so much.
Kate
November 5, 2023
You are living in the hearts all people who know and love you. You are still alive, and will be alive forever. Love you my friend.
Tiffany
August 16, 2023
I never had the pleasure of meeting you in person. I know you would've been one of my favorite people. Still can't believe you're gone. Rest easy beautiful soul
Shayna
May 15, 2023
His son is getting so big. A man himself now. It's hard to believe we are 15 years on. Rest in power old friend. I'm old now. A 40 something parent. You would be too! But instead you are forever young. Which makes me so sad. You had so much more to give.
Mary Newell
February 15, 2023
Brad you were such a great actor and great man you sure are missed may you rest in peace
Mari Inkinen
January 15, 2023
My heart broke 15 years ago and I´m still picking up the pieces. I will remember you always, now and forever till infinity.
Ryann hunter
May 8, 2022
Can´t wait to finally visit, I´ll definitely sign too. It will be a dream come true. Never forgotten!!
Heather Delias
May 7, 2022
Jameson, I saw that book out there when I went a year or so ago. I figured it was something personal so I didn't touch it. Next time I'm there I will sign it since it's a guest book!
Brad deserves a million visits and signature.
Jameson
May 6, 2022
Lots of locals in Knoxville don´t even know that a great actor is amongst them in Blaine Tennessee off the 111 There is a guestbook in a baggie that one can sign on his tombstone. R.I.Power brother.
Mari
January 14, 2022
Fourteen years now. I saw you on the movie The Client for the first time and fell in love immediately. Your memory is deep in my heart till infinity. Always loving you.
Anon
December 26, 2021
Merry Belated Christmas, Brad. I never had the pleasure of knowing you but you seemed a kind, humble and caring young man and your body of work continues to shine. With all you accomplished it's hard to believe you'd only be in just your 30s if you were here today. You still have so many people down here who love and remember you and always will and even in 2021 you're gaining new admirers of yourself and your films! Life isn't at all fair and you deserved a better chance at it but I hope you're at peace up there with the angels. Rest easy now.
Melanie Butler/Mantegna
October 31, 2021
Still and always will miss you Brad. I am so thankful I got a chance to know you. Even if it was just for a little bit. -Until we meet again Brad.
A dear friend
October 30, 2021
Brad despite everything you went through and thought you were not loved you were really loved by thousands of people and nowadays they only want the best for their child. May you have found peace and may you be looking for your son Yamato Renfro. You would be very proud of the handsome, talented and loving young man your child is.
Nadia Dombrowski
August 21, 2021
I loved Brad. He was a great actor and will never be forgotten. Gone way too soon. May he rest in God's glorious kingdom. Amen.
Nadia Dombrowski
August 21, 2021
I loved Brad. He was a great actor and will never be forgotten. Gone way too soon. May he rest in God's glorious kingdom. Amen.
E V
July 25, 2021
Thinking of you, we really miss you Brad. Happy birthday.
Jessica S.
May 16, 2021
Hands down one of my favorite actors. He was so real & down to earth always in his character. Thinking of the film's and talent he would have continued to bless us with. but instead he's gone... It makes my stomach hurt. For his pain and for his family's pain. Hurt.
Mari Inkinen
May 7, 2021
I will cherish your memory till infinity. Always loving you.
Kristen Lee
May 6, 2021
Always thinking about you, my friend. Thinking about you and Richie (Hillman/Hayes) and the craziness of LA. You are loved and missed.
Nita Warren
April 16, 2021
Brad, Such a talented actor at such a young age!! Your son looks so much like you! You are missed
Ryann
April 13, 2021
I used to dream about meeting you and imagining how amazing you would be, I still remember where I was and what I was doing when I heard you passed, I’ll never forget it. I can’t wait till the day I’ll be able to visit you even if it’s not the way I wanted it to be. You were the only crush I’ve ever had and I’ll never forget about you. I can’t believe you’ve been gone this long. I miss you.
Mari Inkinen
January 14, 2021
Hello, dear
Heather Michelle
January 9, 2021
My last memory of you is you giving me a kiss on the forehead and telling me to be good. I think about you often and today has been a bit hard because I know the anniversary of your passing is coming up. Thank you for your kindness. You are one of the highlights of my life.
Heather Michelle
January 9, 2021
My last memory of you is you giving me a kiss on the forehead and telling me to be good. I think about you often and today has been a bit hard because I know the anniversary of your passing is coming up. Thank you for your kindness. You are one of the highlights of my life.
His son Yamato Renfro
He Jia
May 25, 2020
Wow its been 12 years since you left the earth. By the time you were gone I was 8 and now I am 20. Sorry I know you too late. I got to know you several months ago and immediately fell in love with you. I thought to myself this is the most perfect face in the whole world. And you are a talented nice person. Since I knew you, I cried a lot about your life. Hope youre having a good time in heaven!!!!
Im about your sons age. Hope he grows up with love and happiness!!! I was lucky enough to see pictures of him in recent years!!!
Your Friend
December 13, 2019
Dear sweet boy. You are a part of someone elses life now. Not mine. Not the me of 2019....almost 2020. Isnt that amazing? I look at who I was when I knew you all those years ago. Back in the early/mid 00s. I was a kid. Lost. Living on a knifes edge, so close to falling off. How could I live so recklessly? Did I not realize the life I was living could be the end of me? Brad we were kids. In love. And in the midst of battling such dark demons. I won. I beat mine. But only by luck. I didnt deserve to see adulthood any more than you did. You deserved a chance to be creeping up on 40 and taking stock of what youve accomplished in the first half of your life (man am I getting old.) Comfortable in life with a spouse and children and a home and a career. When I look back on our time together it seems like Im looking at someone else: not at myself. Im so sorry that you didnt make it Brad. My kids arent little babies anymore. Brad, they are growing up. Brad, your baby is growing up. Hes so handsome. He has your eyes. He has that stare of yours. That soul piercing stare. Hes doing so well. You would be so proud of him. Lord you and I spent hours on the balcony of that dumpy apartment talking about God. I dont believe in religion anymore Brad. I know we both clung to it in those days. Like a shield to protect us from the horrible things we were doing to ourselves. As we ran the streets of that sprawling city like we owned the place. I still occasionally think of you sweet boy. But thats what you are. A boy. A lost, damaged , beautiful, broken boy. Tucked into the memories of this almost 40 year old woman. Your smell is gone. Your laugh, I cant hear it anymore. I have these flashes of our life together. These specific memories that are seared in my head. But the nuances of you, the essence of you, is gone. I remember thinking of you as I walked down the aisle to marry my husband. I remember thinking of you the day I found out I was pregnant with his and my first child. I remember thinking of you the day my babies were born. But I rarely think of you anymore. Far too many years have gone by. You were love in my young years. Dangerous, passionate, irrational and unsustainable. My life, the life I have spent over 10 years building with a man that isnt you, raising children that arent yours, is full of love that will sustain me for the rest of my life. Love that is comfortable like a favorite pair of slippers. Dependable, safe and durable. But once in a while, on the rare occasion that my house is empty and Im home alone like I am right now, I invite you in. To check in on you. To say hello. I get out my box I have stashed away with the 8 pictures I have of you and I. The only proof we existed. And I look at them. And I cry for you. Sweet boy. I loved you. And the child I was all those years ago always will.
Your friend
Sandra Olson
October 25, 2019
Brad I didn't know you personally but I knew your Uncle Frank Hill. I do know he was very proud of you and bragged about you being his sister's son. Your Uncle Frank was my husband's best friend. I fixed your Uncle up with his wife Brenda. The sadness lives on as my husband Oly and Uncle Frank left us aimlessly lost. Hopefully you are all together in Heaven and they both taught you how to work on and build Harley Davidsons'. Their legacy lives on in our shattered and broken hearts.
Lia
May 19, 2019
You took your truth with you...
Your demons can no longer hurt you, sweetie.
I pray, you have finally found peace and love.
Mari Inkinen
January 14, 2019
Eleven years tomorrow.. This one's for you : " Nothing can die. Not flowers, not wind, Love can't die. Only path goes by and flowers stay behind and elsewhere sings the wind" I love you infinity times infinity.
Rosemary Fuccello
September 12, 2018
I just saw "The Client" for the first time since 1994. I couldn't help but appreciate the acting talent of Mark Renfro. In watching it I seemed to recall that the young actor may have passed away. Sadly, I found that he did indeed pass. RIP Mark you were a brilliant light in the dark night. God bless
Karen Dilts
April 10, 2018
I might be a little late but my condolences and prayers to the family of brad renfro. I loved him in the client, tom and huck were my childhood favorites! My name is Karen dilts of illinois and I say may the angels whisk him to paradise and may he find peace amen!
Harry Simpson
January 15, 2018
Godspeed Brad....
Your Friend
December 29, 2017
It's been a long time since I've came here to write you a note. The kids are asleep, my husband is working late on a big case he has going to trial and I am sitting here thinking of you. The thoughts come infrequently now. The sound of your laugh is long gone from my mind. I have to search deep in my soul to find it. Same with your smell. Tucked away deep in my heart. It took so many years. I never thought I would be able to enjoy life without you. But I can now. I find myself spending long stretches without you in the front of my thoughts, waiting to spring to life when a song or smell or sight reminds me of you. I have to search for you now. Sometimes it takes an hour of thinking about you before I can remember your smile or your laugh or.....what you look like. Without a picture in front of me it's getting so hard to see your face. I have to summon a specific memory to be able to find your beautiful eyes. A part of me is glad to have been able to let you go and move on. But a part of me still wants to crawl into my cocoon of sadness with nothing but my thoughts of you. Because in my thoughts we are still young and sitting on the balcony, smoking cigs and laughing while the ocean breeze kisses our cheeks. Carefree despite our demons. The devil be damned. But my babies and my life draw me out of my imagination. My dreams of you pierced by the life I've created without you. I love you Brad. I always will. But I let you go. I had to. You left and that left me no choice. God I wish I could summon your smell. Your smile. The sound of your laugh. But I have to crawl deep into my mind to find those things anymore. And my life here without you needs me. Needs me to tuck them in. Needs me to bring him a coffee. Needs me to sing them one more song. But when I sing to them tonight I will sing our song. And I will think of you. And maybe you will come to me for the briefest of moments. I'll be waiting.
Love always
Your Friend
Esther Brighton
February 26, 2017
You were such a talented actor. I just saw one of your movies and was blown away by how incredible you were in it. What a tragedy that you didn't get to realize your full potential. You were meant to be a star. But now you are a star above us, shining down on us all. Much love from Illinois.
Jojo
October 30, 2016
Dearest Brad, thank you for what you have left us, your films, which feel like an imprint of your soul is on every one. I was watching bully the other day again and you really were a talented actor. You were, you achieved so much in your short life. I've seen all of your films. What remains also is your sweet, kind and funny spirit that comes through in your performance too. How I'd like to have met you here in the UK and taken you to a pub for an evening then listened to you play your guitar. I still think of you as a fan and am sending best wishes to everyone who knew and loved you. The years pass, but memories don't fade
Life is not forever, love is.....
Naderdane Uloth
October 4, 2016
He was one of the few actors which played with his soul. We still miss his work and his presence. He will always be in our heart.
Your Friend
August 25, 2016
Thinking of you all day today. The saying is correct that you never "get over" losing someone you love. You just learn how to live without them. Well, 8 years later and I'm still learning. I know now that I will make it through life without you. The passing of the years has shown me that. But your love has never faded in my heart. It's as strong as it was the last day we spent together. I love you. I miss you. I always will.
PS-if this site gave me a choice on the scent of the candle, I would have chosen cabbie pine tree!!!! Wow, it's heartbreaking not to hear you laugh at that. Love you always.
Your Friend
July 25, 2016
Here's a candle, it's all I have besides my love to give you as a present.
Your Friend
July 25, 2016
Happy birthday Brad. 34 today. My god. What all you would have accomplished. You would have gotten an academy award by now. I know it didn't mean much to you as you just loved movies for the art, but you had the talent to win one. Lord I miss you. Lunches, late night chats, even the times you were struggling, I miss the optimism that was always in your heart to overcome what was tormenting you. I love you. Always will.
Judy &alesa Lewis
July 20, 2016
Rip happy birthday
Judy &alesa Lewis
July 20, 2016
Hard to believe its been another birthday an another year you are a great actor an a sweet handsome man have a great birthday in heaven ♥2016rip brad gone but Never forgotten
Rebecca Shackelford
April 25, 2016
Brad, I can't believe that you're gone. Here I am looking at photo's and old interviews reminiscing and crying. I miss you so much! Wish I could've met you. I hope to one day. You're always in my heart! You were truly an amazing actor! xoxoxox
Your Friend
April 7, 2016
Could have swore I saw you on constitution today. It stopped me dead in my tracks and dropped my stomach. I started shaking. Of course it wasn't you. But, for that half a second, it was. It was you. You were here. Like you had never left. Those fleeting moments when reality is suspended and I have the briefest of senses that you are here, I treasure those. Miss you now. Miss you always .
Alysia McClure Reid
January 27, 2016
I wish you had more time, here on this earth; yet, I thank the Lord for blessing the world with your birth. I wish I could have erased every moment of pain that stained your soul before it was too late, but I hope that one day I will see you again at heaven's gate. Even after a supernova, a star still appears from a distance to shine so bright and this memory of your light is what I cling too in the twilight.
Harry Simpson
January 16, 2016
Thank you for sharing a part of your life with us.
cc
January 15, 2016
may u rest in peace beautiful Brad
Heather Delias
January 15, 2016
Can't believe it's been 8 years. I visited you the 31st of last month. Wish I could have had the pleasure of meeting you during my many trips to Knoxville growing up, visiting my family. Rest easy handsome.
Teresa Renville
December 28, 2015
Brad I love u miss u u r always in my heart
Heather Delias
December 16, 2015
You were an amazingly talented actor and I know you stayed down to earth and didn't let the fame go to your head. Back in the day I sent you and a couple of other of my favorite actors posters asking for them to be signed and returned. Well a couple of months I open a weird envelope and I pull out the poster I sent you....signed! That meant the absolute world to me and still does. Unfortunately over the years between moving and such I haven't been able to find it. Makes me sick to my stomach because there is no replacing that. I hate so much that your time here was cut so short. You had more amazing things left to do. Later this month and the beginning of January I will be traveling through Knoxville and I have already planned to stop by Blaine and pay my respects. Rest in peace handsome. Your fans will never forget about you! You will continue to live through us, your family and friends! <3
Frank Bacardi
November 16, 2015
Brief but brilliant career.
A wish
September 28, 2015
Never forgotten Brad.
Your friend
July 25, 2015
Happy birthday. Miss you every day.
Mari Inkinen
July 25, 2015
Happy 33. Birthday, Brad <3
judy n alesa lewis
July 20, 2015
happy birthday handsome gone way to soon
judy n alesa lewis
July 20, 2015
brad miss you love you you are never forgotten HAPPYBIRTHDAY
Always in my heart
Valerie Renfro
June 18, 2015
Tiffani Edwards
June 16, 2015
I never met you but you meant the world to me. Your passion inspired me. Your life mattered to me, and it still does. You are the reason I stopped using drugs. You will always have a fan in me. i will never forget you.
Amber E
June 5, 2015
For you. Think of you often.
R C
May 6, 2015
May you rest in peace young one.
Your Friend
March 26, 2015
You were on my mind today. It's been a little while since I thought about you. I don't know how to feel about that. For years I thought of you every day, sometimes for the entire day. Then it became almost every day. And now for a little while I go a couple days without having that empty feeling hit my stomach as you enter my head and I realize you are gone. It's been over 7 years. That's so hard to believe. Im older now. I'm married. I have a baby. I know, thats also really hard to believe!! Yet you will always be 25. 25 and beautiful and tragic and hilarious and talented and insightful and kind hearted. I don't know why I come back to this guest book. I guess it's the only place left. All the people we knew have scattered. There's no one left from our days of running this city like we owned it. I miss you. I always will.
Until we meet again
March 26, 2015
Just thinking of you today. I have dreams about you still, and most times they don't make much sense or have any sort of underlying meaning, but I don't mind. It's just really nice to see your face again. Sometimes I replay our last conversation in my mind, and the few we had leading up to that one, and I can't be more grateful. I think God gave me the opportunity to say things to you I'd never been able to say before. And though you knew deep down the love I had for you, my friend, I couldn't have expressed it better than on that Saturday, just a couple of weeks before you left us. I try not to think of you or talk about you that often because it hurts that bad, and it always will for me. So this moment now, I'll cry it out and tuck you back in my pocket until I'm feeling strong enough to do it again.
Heather Delias
March 1, 2015
Such a talented actor gone way too soon. Rest in peace Brad.
Charley White
January 16, 2015
Such a sad day for me, wonder where you would be if you were still with us.
Mari Inkinen
January 15, 2015
Seven years. We will never forget you. RIP angel. <3
Mari Inkinen
October 3, 2014
Rest In Peace. You still live in our hearts <3
Pablisson Moura
July 30, 2014
I met Brad by the movie "The Client" And I fell for it. And when I
learned of his passing, I was totally sad. Today I am 19 years old
and am a big fan of this great actor.It was a great loss,he was so
talented and gorgeous.He is an icon for me!!! R.I.P BRAD RENFRO
Pablisson Moura
July 29, 2014
I met Brad by the movie "The Client" And I fell for it. And when I learned of his passing, I was totally sad. Today I am 19 years old and am a big fan of this great actor.It was a great loss,he was so talented and gorgeous.He is an icon for me!!! R.I.P BRAD RENFRO
judy lewis
July 26, 2014
Brad ever yr i type u a message we met u while filming the movie telllim lies n america on r street we love u your picture with my kids are on my coffee tableRIP an happy 2 days late birthday the lewis family judy &jeffs alesa
Brandy
May 8, 2014
Randomly thoughts of Brad came to me today. I'll admit...I never had the priviledge to meet Brad, but from a very young age he made a huge impact on me. For years I followed his works and admired him very much. You could just look at his face and see an old soul with such a good heart. Missing him today and hoping his family finds comfort knowing that others still think of him as well.
j lewis family
January 28, 2014
Well 5 yrs have come n gone HAPPY BDAY u r STILL MISSED MORE N MORE EACH YR would love to c ur handsome face gone way to soon an never forgotten you were the best
Kristy Ostergaard
January 11, 2014
It's getting to be that time of year again. I just wanted to take this time to encourage the family and friends to reflect on all the wonderful things Brad accomplished in this life and discard the bad. He was a blessing and should be remembered for that. You are all in my thoughts and prayers all day, everyday. I keep a picture of Brad in my wallet and everytime I see it, I pray for y'all. Love and prayers my dear brothers and sisters! I wish I could hug you all in person!!!
Kryssi
August 5, 2013
Just wanted to encourage friends and family with this verse I just found. "The righteous perish and no one ponders it in his heart; devout men are taken away and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death." Isaiah 57:1-2
For those privileged enough to have known Brad in this life, we know he was always encouraging others with these words: "Darlin', nothing happens in Gods world by mistake". Brad was right. And though it is so hard to fathom, we must all trust that Brad's early homecoming was no mistake. God knew what He was doing when He placed that precious boy on this earth and therefore, we may only conclude, that God's greater plan in taking him home early, is far greater than we will ever understand in this life! That being said, tears will come and are justified in these times, yet though our hearts are breaking, remember dear ones, that God Himself is taking the heartbreaking tragedy of sweet Brad's short life and turning it into beautiful things!
“And we know that all things work together for good, for them that love God; for them that are the called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28
Be blessed, beloved of Brad and God our Father!
xxKryssi
A S
August 4, 2013
Thought of you on your birthday. Had a smile thinking of what an "old man" you'd be. Miss and love you.
Marysol Naranjo
July 12, 2013
Brad, I'm glad that nothing hurts you no more!
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GOD LOVES YOU!
July 3, 2013
Marysol Naranjo
July 3, 2013
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Rhonda R.
July 2, 2013
Such a talented young man. You will forever be in my thoughts .
June 28, 2013
THINKING OF YOU AND MISSING YOU ALWAYS.... WATCHING OVER YOUR SIS FOR YOU BABY BOY
June 27, 2013
Your sweet lips on my lips
Marysol Naranjo
June 26, 2013
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