two worlds apart yet close enough to almost hear your voice. / Patrick Forth (cousin) So much to say, where to start? Well your sister Geri got me reminiscing and thinking. Unfortunately with my rusted steel trap of a memory i can't recall as much as i would like. There are some that stand out though. The times as a child playing in the treehouse on delphi and in the pool there too. The time Steve walked in saying we have a problem, me and you looking at each other wondering what it could of been that we did and got caught, but in the end standing in a lineup for my mother to pick me out of. The embarrasing photo taken at the cabin in Michigan. Oh how i had wished for years that you would of been the taller of us two. The time you showed me your workout routine involving the soup cans. The short time you lived with me and some of the late nights we had. The night me, you, David, and uncle Mike stayed up almost all night playing that "game". Through all the years we could talk about anything....and absolutely nothing. Though we only had a few "deep" conversations. We never really needed too. More was said with just a look and a glance. To this day i still look for a connection like that. As you may already know i have a little son on the way, Sean William Forth. Hopefully the name will stay till his birth. I know i'll will try with all my might to be as good of a father as you were. Well, and still are. I also will do everything i can to instill the things that you have been an example of to everyone everyday in your life and after life. When i was rembering today the things that are now past i teared up and cried. Was i crying because i miss you? How could i? I know i will see you again. We all will. I know your presence surrounds us everyday with the same love and caring as when you were here on earth. Did i cry because i can no longer hear your voice or your laugh? I know we will all experience those yet again, and sometimes if we listen carefully enough we can hear it now. Did i cry because i can no longer see your soulfull, compassionate eyes? I know those same eyes still gaze upon us all and one day we all can gaze back. Maybe it is knowing what you had done here and what you had represented. Knowing that it can be so difficult to do what it was that you did so easily. You could lighten up a heart with your smile. Calm an anger with soft words. Ease worry with a place of your hand. And so much more. You touched everyone's soul that you met. Always able to forgive. Your heart was filled with so much love, compassion, and acceptance it would spill over and help fill the hearts of those around you. I ask what greater plan can there be then the one you have already achieved? For the mere act of meeting you would have us all aspiring to live up to your example. Is that not the largest achievement we could hope for in our life here on earth. So thank you for just being. I am blessed to have been able to have been so close to someone so great...as i'm sure many of us feel this way. Enjoy your time in bliss, until we all meet up with you again. I say farewell as i did to you before, not forever, but as two souls who will be reunited again. Now i weap once more, knowing i weap for the pain in longing and waiting till i see you and all those i love, who stand beside you, yet again.
hey bubby / Geri Craves (sister) hey bubby, there is not a moment that goes by that i dont think of you. every time kaylee calls jacob bubby it brings me to tears becouse i know that the bubby i am longing for is gone. and my children wont get to love you like i do. I miss you so bad but yet i am tring to stay strong through every thing that comes my why. i feel like i have already been through the hardest thing in my life (losing you) there is nothing left that is to hard to handle. but that in it self becomes unbearable most days. who ever said time makes it easier didnt have a brother like you. you have become my strength. i dont know if you can hear me every night when i talk to you as if you were standing next to me. i guess i am looking for your wisdom for some sign you are still here and to have the feeling that even though my children cant see you, you are still here holding their hands giving them the same love and guidence that you have always showed me. i love you tommy and i always will. you will never be forgotten!!!!!!!
Missing you never get easier / Danielle Mackey (Sister) Tommy,
Missing you never gets any easier. The hardest part is when i have an off the wall dream about you, and it doesn't make since until months down the road. I see you when I can, but I still cry like the day we left you there. I know you are around sometimes, Hadiyah talks to you still once in a while. I know you are looking down and sometimes I still hear you laugh. I still have the overload of pennies that you had here. I even have a stupid can of oysters that you like, I KNOW they are expired now, but I just cannot throw it away.
Anyway, I love you and miss you and I know that I will always be proud to be your sister.
STILL MISSING U BUDDY HAVENT AND WONT FORGET / Kenny Robertson (dawns cousin and good friend ) HEY BUDDY just wanted to let u know we havent nor will we ever forget u i can tell ur around and its cool buddy i like it that u are i was fishing got the oddest feeling and cold chills and it was like a lite lit the area a bit it was like i could see u u were smileing and what was weird it was in our fishin spot so buddy keep on letting me know ur there cause i miss u dearly we all do badly miss all the goodtimes we had the talks etc.i look at ur picture often its on my wall and always will be!!!!!!i smile think what a cool guy then somtimes i see what i wish i never had to see is u at the hospital the nite we all had u STOLEN from us and the world! its not fair i know but god had plans 4 you i know ur an angel now buddy and a great 1!!!!!!!!!your daughter is beautiful buddy and is smart too i think well i know ud be proud of her shes an awesome kid !!!!!!we visit ur resting place alot im sure u know its so hard to leave tears us up everytime hate to have to leave u there but i know ur in a much better place now and 1 day u will see everyone there with u!!!!well buddy i just wanted to let ya know this and we all love u and will always have u in our hearts and will never forget ya bud love ya man kenny
my place / Geraldine Craves (sister) As the days drew longer and the nights fade
I knew I was ready to find my place.
A place where only laughter shows,
A place where only a angel goes.
The pain shall soon end and the happiness shall begin.
A place where all are missed but are in guiding hands
A place where even thou I seem far,
I can still see the tears that fall for me,
Please don’t be sad for me today nor tomorrow.
For I am ready for gods place now
and there I will always be,
Waiting for the day I help you find your way,
to your place
HERE BESIDE ME!
Written by ; Geraldine Craves Dedicated To My brother Thomas Mundy and to my Grandfather Carl Hatton
Memorial in a Different Way / Danielle Mackey (Sister) Tommy,
It is now memorial day. Although we are celebrating the lifes of the men and women who served our country. I am also celebrating the life that you used to serve your family and friends. You are also on my mind. Everyday I think of you. There still isn't really any closure. When I look at my daughter, all I can think is how she will never be able to see you, and play with you the way you played with Heather and the other kids. But I will make sure she knows who you were...I know you can see her.
We flew out kites this year, just like we did the week before you died. And Hadiyah actually remebered that. She said "Hey Mama, do you remember when me and you and Heather and Uncle Tommy went to that big park and was flying these." She was only 2 , but she remebers everything about that day.....even you chasing her down beacuse she took off running!!
Tommy, I miss you and love you. I am so glad we spent that time and many other times togther.... BTW.....I got the message!!
Love always
Danielle
HAPPY EASTER / Tessa Coates (cousin) TOMMY JUST WRITING TO SAY HAPPY EASTER. ITS GOING ON 2 YEARS AND IT SEEMS TO BE GETTING EASIER TO DEAL WITH BUT IT IS STILL WAY HARD. AND IIT STILL IS SOMETHING THAT IS HARD TO BELIEVE. THINGS JUST ARENT THE SAME. I LOVE YOU
TOMMY YOU GOTTA HEAR THIS!!!! / Tessa Coates (cousin) TOMMY, HEY BUDDY WHATS GOING ON? NOT MUCH MY WAY. MAN I CANT BELIEVE 2 YEARS IS COMING SISNCE YOU HAVE LEFT US. BUT I NEVER FORGET THE MOMORIES. SPEAKING OF WHICH. THE OTHER DAY I WAS AT WORK AND SOME GUY CAME UP TO ME AND FARTED IN HIS HAND AND THREW IT AT ME AND INSTANTLY THOUGHT OF YOU. I MNOW YOU WERE PROBABLY WATCHING AND AND LAUGHING IT UP WERENT YOU?. ITS OK THOUGH. NO MATTER HOW NASTY IT WAS HILARIOUS WHEN YOU AND MIKE DID THAT TO ME. ANYWAY IM GOING TO GET OFF HERE. TALK TO YOU SOON BUDDY. LOVE ALWAYS TESSA
miss ya so much buddy / Kenny Robertson (good friend &dawns cousin )
you know i could kick myself 4not having that cook out and drinkin a few beers the nite we moved dawns apartment (the nite before u left us)i wish so bad that i had but i knew u were tired everyone was lol but wish i woulda took u up on it to spend the time with you having no clue it would be the last time id see u with us i thank god that i did get to see ya the day before u left us but wish we coulda done more now !!!!you were a hell of a person to be with never a dull moment always talking joking PLAYING JOKES lol im so glad i got to experience that stuff with you and always think of u we visit u alot brad really misses you it tears him up bad everytime we leave you just like the 1st time we had to leave u there.and ill tell ya what buddy u have a BEAUTIFUL &SMART DAUGHTER which im sure u know and shes conceded just like u lol lol well buddy gunna go could go on 4 ever but ill leave it at this 4 now i miss ya buddy my fishing partner gunna try to get back into this yr just havent went since u left give me luck bud i know ur here we feel ya and see the things u do thanx 4 looking over us love ya man kenny
Missing You / Danielle Mackey (Oldest Sister ) Tommy,
Today is hard for some reason. You are always thought of and missed. You and your story are now in a book. We are still working on getting a tougher law for the people who feel it is OK to leave the scene of an accident. Rick (Trina's) came over and installed a dishwasher, and we were remebering you and your jokes.
I still find little things by you in the house, even though we have been here a year and a half. A Bengals lighter...lol.
Well, it doesn't get any easier. People say time will help it get better. But time only reminds us of how much we miss you. Sometimes I feel like it is wierd for life to go on, and you aren't here to share it with us. There are new additions to the families. You have 2 new neices and a nephew. But I know you see it all.
I love you Tommy, and everyone else feels the same.