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Megan Elizabeth Renaud
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Raised in a nurturing environment, Megan embraced life's adventures from a young age, cherishing every moment spent with her family. She graduated from Poway High School in 2001, carrying with her the values and lessons learned during those formative years.
Megan's true essence shone brightest in her own pursuits and passions. A lover of the water, she enjoyed many serene days boating, often accompanied by the music of Christopher Cross. The tranquility and happiness she found on the water, a setting where she felt most at home, were moments of bliss in her life.
Her heart belonged to her family. Megan and her husband, Dale, shared a deep and enduring love. She raised her son, Dylan, with the same values of love and kindness that she held dear. Megan's role as a mother was characterized by boundless love and a nurturing spirit, laying a strong foundation for Dylan's future.
Beyond her home, Megan's presence touched the lives of many friends with her infectious laughter, warm smile, and a spirit of generosity and kindness. She had a special way of making everyone feel valued and loved, leaving a lasting impression on all who had the privilege of knowing her.
A private memorial service will be held in honor of Megan's life, attended by her closest family members and friends. The family suggests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made in Megan's honor to the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation, 3450 N Triumph Blvd., Suite #102, Lehi, UT 84043.
Megan leaves behind her devoted husband, Dale; son, Dylan; parents, Tom and Sally Hickerson; and sister, Morgan Brausa. As we bid farewell to Megan, we hold dear the memories and the love she shared. Her legacy of joy and kindness will continue to inspire those who knew her. Megan's memory will forever be a beacon of light in the hearts of her loved ones.
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Thomas A Hickerson
April 4, 2025
My Dearest Megan,
We share April 4th as our birthday so I wanted to wish you a Happy birthday and tell you how much we love and miss you. I always claimed April 4th as my birthday based on seniority, but your Mother and I were thrilled when you were born and am honored to share my birthday with you. I miss you so much but we will share our birthday in spirit Honey. We Love and miss you so much!
Dad & Mom
Dale Renaud
April 4, 2025
Well baby tomorrow is your birthday so HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVE!! I hope you have a great day. I miss you so much and love you with all my heart. I wish I could talk to you again even if it was for a few minutes, but I can't well I talk you every day so I guess what I mean is I wish I could hear your voice again even for a few minutes. You will always be the love of my life. We have a new grandson his name is Stetson and I will make sure he knows who you are and how much you love him. I will never let you be forgotten I will keep you alive in my heart by remembering all the good times we had together. Love you forever baby! So hold it down till I get there baby!
Teri Walker
March 30, 2025
Dear Megan, Your birthday is soon approaching. So, I was thinking of you and what you have taught us all:
To embrace joy, to show a beautiful smile even when hurting, to be gracious and kind. Your courage shines still and memories of you rest quietly in our hearts. Love, Aunt Teri
Stephanie Bliesener
February 15, 2025
Miss you Meg's more than most would know. You and Dale were a rock to me during some of the most difficult times. I miss our pool days, bloody mary mornings and our laughter. Megan, you gave me strength I didn't know I had. I miss your text messages, calls and snapchats. So many days I miss "you got this girl". You are a true best friend. Love you always ~ Stephanie
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Dale Renaud
February 14, 2025
Happy Valentine's Day baby. I love you and miss you everyday. I know you are way better off where your at,but missing your voice, laughter and your all around beauty is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I can't wait to see you again and hug you and never let you go. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me and I'm GRATEFUL to have had the privilege to be you husband and love. The sun just broke through the clouds and I know that's you shining down on me. I still look for you every day and I will be forever yours till we meet again all my love eternally. Hold it down up there till I get there baby I love you!
Dale
Dale Renaud
December 15, 2024
Dear Megan its been on year since you became an angel, and you are missed so much by myself and the rest of the family. I love you baby and miss you greatly. I think about you all day every day and we speak of you often remembering all of the good times we had and the love we share. I know your happy and healthy and that makes me happy. I know you are with us here in our daily lives I can feel you.
Hold it down till I get there baby and once I do I will never let you go again.
Love you forever, Dale.
John Dunay
December 14, 2024
One year ago, we lost someone very special and very close to the hearts of us all. While we no longer share space on this earthly world together, we are strengthened even more by our bonds of love and faith. Our heavenly destiny for all eternity is now Megan's home forever, and God willing, where we we all find ourselves reunited with Megan when our time on Earth ends for us.
The last years I got to spend with Megan where some of the best years of life. Hanging out by the pool, going to the lake or any time spent together were always so much fun. Megan was like a sister and understood very well those who were close around. That was the warm connection we knew, and still have with us today.
To know true happiness and contentment is to know that the connection with Megan and anyone else close to us that we have lost, is with us in the here and now, and will carry us forward until our time has come to be reunited once again.
We love you, Megan & your presence lives on in all of us.
Teri Walker
December 14, 2024
Dearest Megan, you are in our hearts and on our minds today. Sunshine is streaming in our patio window this morning. It is a perfect tribute to you as it reflects your positive spirit, glowing smile, and generosity. I know you would not want us to feel sad but the tears are flowing anyway. Love you always
Sharman Strand
December 14, 2024
Megan, today marks one year since you have gone home to Our Lord, and I´m remembering all the love, laughter and joy that you brought to so many of us. You will always be in my heart, sweetie. Always.
Thomas A Hickerson
December 13, 2024
Thomas A Hickerson
December 13, 2024
Dear Megan,
Tomorrow, December 14, 2024 will be a year when the Lord called you Home to the Kingdom of Heaven, to be reunited with our loved ones that went before you.
Dad and I miss your beautiful smile, your infectious laughter and fun-loving spirit. We miss your phone calls, our hugs and kisses, and all the time we spent together with you. Even the trips to Mayo Clinic were enjoyable as we would try to lift the tension and worry with laughter and just being silly. I miss seeing you and Dad banter back and forth and tease each other. We miss all the pool and barbeque parties we would have at everyone´s house and playing games around the fire pit at night with lots of music. We miss all the great times on the pontoon on Lake Pleasant with our family, discovering all the burrows and egrets and eagles. We will always treasure those days on Lake Pleasant and especially the two Trump parades! We miss being with you on the holidays. At least last year, we were lucky enough to have you with us on Thanksgiving. We will always treasure that day.
Megan, you are such a wonderful spirit and have such a big heart; the world needs more people like you. We have all had to adjust to life without you, but we still feel your spirit around us. You may be out of sight, but you are not out of mind. Know that we think of you always and we love you forever.
All Our Love Forever,
Mom and Dad
We included a few more pictures of Megan that we wanted to share.
Christy Ryales
March 19, 2024
Christy Ryales
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Christy Ryales
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Christy Ryales
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Christy Ryales
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Christy Ryales
March 19, 2024
I wasn't ready to say goodbye, as I look into the heavens with tears in my eyes I wasn't ready for you to die. With so many questions and no answers as to why. I would have gone with you, however God knows best and took you home to give you rest.
I will keep promise and watch over your family always as you have asked me do!
Oh My Megs! My heart hurts! 4/4/83-12/14/23
Dale Renaud
February 8, 2024
My Sweet Megan, I love you. I want you to know that in our 5 short years together you gave me a lifetime of love. You are my heart,my world, my absolute everything.
From the moment I saw your beautiful blue eyes, and your amazing smile, my heart was all yours and my world was forever changed. You are the most amazing, beautiful, loving, smart, thoughtful, and tender woman in the world. There´s not a day that I don´t thank God for placing such an amazing woman my life. I will forever cherish the memories of our camping trips on the lake and all our BBQ´s filled with friends, family, love and laughter. My beautiful Megan, most of all, I cherish those short loving text that only you can send. No matter what the world threw my way, they always made me feel like the most important and loved man in the world and for that I am forever grateful. You are my #1 supporter, no matter how big or small the problem, you always told me we would figure it out and we did, simply put, thank you! You complete me, My Sweet Soulmate. My Godsend Love, you were my angel on earth and brought more happiness into my world than I could have ever dreamed of. I wasn´t ready to let you go, but your angelic wings were ready to take to the sky, and as I held your hand while you transitioned to a beautiful angel in the sky, I learned the true meaning of holding a "double edge sword", but their is nowhere I would rather have been than by your side loving you through it all, as you were always by mine filling my life with love most will never know. I know that if love could have saved you, you would still be here with me, for I love you with all of my being, forever and always. I know in my heart I will see you again. So, hold it down till I get there baby! My Dear Megan, I absolutely adore you and I will always love you to the moon and back baby.
Dale Renaud
February 8, 2024
Dale Renaud
February 8, 2024
Dale Renaud
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Dale Renaud
February 8, 2024
Dylan Doust
February 5, 2024
Dylan Doust
February 5, 2024
Dylan Doust
February 5, 2024
Dylan Doust
February 5, 2024
Dear Mom, You were my #1 supporter, mentor, best friend, and the most amazingly beautiful mother a kid could have ever asked to be blessed with in their life. In our 20 short years together you taught me so much about how to navigate down this road we call life. At times, that road felt so long and rocky, but now as I reflect back on it, 20 years just doesn´t seem long enough. It hurts like hell knowing that life keeps going on now without you by my side traveling this road with me. However, I want you to rest peacefully knowing that in our time together you taught me how to face all those obstacles head on and to make the best of every situation , and for that, I am forever grateful. I see now that you were just laying the foundation for me to become the man you always knew I could be, and though it saddens me to know you wont see all your hard work and dedication pay off in the end, I promise not to let you down. My Sweet Mom, as painful as it was for me to watch you go,I am thankful God gave me the chance to be with you holding your hand as he took all your pain away and your spirit went on to the next life, just as I am thankful that you were the person waiting for me when I entered this one. I know you , The Worlds Most Amazing Mom, wouldn´t want me to dwell in sadness forever. You would tell me, in the sweet loving way that only you could, not to cry because it ended, smile because it happened. I am so happy you were my mother, no one could have done it better than you.
The universe sings to us.
Love you Mom
Stephanie Colvin (Bliesener)
January 5, 2024
Megan will always have the most special place in my heart as a dear friend, a fighter for those she loved and a blessing to all who knew her. Heaven gained a true angle.
Steve Strand
December 29, 2023
A Life Well Lived
When I hear the phrase "A life well lived" it often refers to someone who was in advanced years, in their 80's or 90's. We do not choose when we are called from God's green Earth, but we do choose how we use the time we have.
Megan exemplified A Life Well Lived:
A loving Mother to son Dylan.
A thoughtful partner to Husband Dale.
A devoted daughter to parents Tom & Sally.
A kindred spirit for sister Morgan.
Someone quick to help a friend in need.
Someone with a ready smile to cheer you up.
Someone who lived a joyful life by example.
Someone who met adversity with fortitude and grace.
Someone missed by all who knew her.
Megan is all this and more......
Eternal Love Sweet Niece
Wendy Robinson-Simpson
December 25, 2023
Megan what a beautiful soul. Full of Love, hope, and Family. My favorite memory's of you sweet girl would be the day we all spent together, bowling, watching sports, nice meal. I'm going to miss that humor of your. Always making people laugh. Your smile is worth a million. Rest Easy Beautiful Soul. You are missed deeply.
Sharman Strand
December 23, 2023
Megan, you have always been a source of joy and kindness, with a fun-living spirit and wonderful sense of humor. And more than anything else, I will always remember your open and loving heart. So generous to loved ones... family and friends who might be down on their luck and needed a little help. If the purpose of life is to help others along, you mastered that and continued to maintain an open and giving heart, and an open door.
I thoroughly enjoyed being around Megan, in any setting whatsoever... Christmas games, which she presided over like a Master Emcee; being on the boat on Lake Pleasant, with all the fun that entailed; or the many BBQs/pool parties in the back yard. Megan loved people and loved socializing, and was the greatest hostess of these events.
Megan, you will always inspire me to open my heart more, to be more giving, and to be brave. It has been an honor and a privilege to have had all the time we had together. You are and always will be my little CrumpleBunny, and I will always love you.
Aunt Sharman
Jeanette Nichols
December 22, 2023
Jeanette Nichols
December 22, 2023
Jeanette Nichols
December 22, 2023
My heart is broken while writing this. Megan was a beautiful person inside and out with an infectious laugh and huge loving heart that was taken from this world way to young.
I met Megan through Dale four years ago when he started working for us and I hit it off with her immediately. I love the laughs that we shared together, but most of all I loved the strong love that she had for Dale, her son Dylan and her dad & mom. Family was her life and they were an unbreakable group that spent every minute together. She got her huge heart from her mommy. She shared the same birthday as her daddy and was his mini in so many ways. But then the love she had for Dale & Dylan was over the top, she´d do anything for them.
Over the years Dale would tell me often that his angel Megan came into his life and is exactly what he´s needed but this past year we all knew Dale was put in her life for a reason. As tough & strong as she was, this cancer was horrible on her but Dale never left her side and fought alongside her helping in every way he could wishing it was him fighting instead of his new bride.
Some of my favorite memories of Megan is when she would be the captain of the pontoon boat on our team outings on the lake. We would have a full day in the sun with lots of games and laughter. Then just a year ago October, at Dale and Megan`s wedding, laughing and dancing the night away. They were both so happy! Another was a year ago exactly at my house for a Christmas party. These are the pictures I posted where I was talking with her one on one and saying to her "You look so beautiful right now & all the lights around you glowing that I have to take your picture"!
Megan will be missed and should´ve had so many more memories to make... We love you, Megan.
XO
Morgan Brausa
December 22, 2023
As I sit down to pen my thoughts about Megan, my heart is heavy with loss, yet warmed by the countless memories we shared. Megan wasn't just my sister; she was a part of my soul, my companion in so many of life's adventures, and a source of endless joy and laughter.
Our mutual love for the beach and the water was more than a shared interest; it was a bond that connected us deeply. The beach was our haven, a place where we found peace, solace, and happiness. It was where our spirits felt most free and where our conversations flowed as effortlessly as the ocean waves.
One memory that stands out vividly is our bike ride in Huntington Beach on New Year's Day in 2010. I remember the cool air, the distinctive smell of bonfires, and the sense of exhilaration as we pedaled along the Boardwalk. That day, like so many others we spent together, was filled with simple joys - the kind that now seem all the more precious.
Megan's love for dogs was a reflection of her kind and nurturing spirit. She saw them not just as pets, but as family members, deserving of love and care. This was Megan - always finding joy in the simple things, always ready to give love unconditionally.
As I write this, I can almost hear the laughter, feel the breeze, and smell the ocean - all reminders of the beautiful times we shared. Megan´s love for life, her infectious laughter, and her warm heart are etched in my memory.
Megan, you may have left this world, but you will never leave our hearts. Your spirit continues to live on through the waves, the wind, and in every cherished memory we hold. You taught us to find beauty in the everyday, to cherish each moment, and to love without boundaries.
In your memory, I promise to live life fully, to embrace joy, and to love as deeply as you did. Your legacy is one of love, laughter, and the simple joys of life - a legacy that will continue to inspire all who knew you.
Rest peacefully, dear Megan. Your memory will forever be a guiding light in our lives.
Suzanne Perry
December 21, 2023
My life was in enriched when Megan moved next door. She immediately had me with her beautiful joyful smile. She invited me to join her along with her family and friends for numerous celebrations, holidays, and barbecues. She always made me feel welcome and included in all events. She had a heart of gold always going out of her way to help others. She dealt with the cancer with dignity, courage, and strength. I will so miss her saying "Howdy" and looking up to see her smile. Heaven has gained an Angel. My prayers and deepest sympathy are with her family.
Ryan Brausa
December 21, 2023
Ryan Brausa
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Ryan Brausa
December 21, 2023
I wanted to share some great photos of Megan along with her family that miss her dearly.
Dad and Mom
December 21, 2023
Dear Megan,
It hasn´t been a week yet, and we miss you so much. Dad and I were so glad when you were born and happy that Morgan would have a little sister to play with. You were such a darling little girl full of spunk and wonderment. We were proud of you when you passed Beginner´s Swimming at the age of 5; that was the start of the love for being in and on the water. Dad and I enjoyed your softball games, both in York and also San Diego. You were a good pitcher!
As you grew up, we enjoyed many trips on the East Coast, and also amazing times in some of the beautiful places in California. The Inner Harbor in Baltimore was probably the favorite spot for everyone, as well as the National Aquarium and Fells Point.
We are so proud of the volunteer work that you did with the church, spending four years feeding the homeless downtown, and also working in the church thrift shop. We are proud to be your parents; we got through a lot of life´s challenges together. Whenever a problem came up, it seemed that Dad and I could "fix" it, but we couldn´t fix this awful cancer.
This past year has been challenging and you handled it with such courage, dignity and grace. I don´t know anyone that could have handled it as well as you or fought as hard as you did. We are grateful for all the time we had with you, and wish we had more. You always had a big heart and were kind and generous to everyone that you thought needed it. Megan, your greatest legacy is Dylan. He is such a wonderful young man who has steadfast allegiance and love for his mother.
Your time on this earth was short and you will live in our hearts with each and every memory. The Lord finally showed his mercy and embraced you with love, peace and serenity and reunited you with our loved ones that have gone before you. Heaven has an amazing angel... her name is Megan. We love you forever.
Teri Lee Walker
December 20, 2023
When I think of my niece, Megan, I see her beautiful smile which she expressed so easily. Her smile endured despite her battle with cancer. When I think of Megan, I remember the day I took her horseback riding with me. She was fearless and confident on the back of the chestnut mare. She faced her battle with cancer with that same fighting spirit. I have such admiration for her courage. When I think of Megan, I see the sunlight reflecting off her blond hair and the warm smile on her face while we shared a boat ride on Lake Pleasant. May we all draw comfort from our sweet memories. Love you Megan, Aunt Teri
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