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Billy Ray Wheeler, Jr. was born in Ashland, Kentucky at King’s Daughters’ Hospital on January 5, 1967. He went to Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky for a degree in Police Science. He was a good person. He was a police officer for University of Kentucky, an EMT, First Aid Instructor, a CPR Instructor, and RAD instructor (women’s self-defense), and loved to work the Special Olympics. He also was a very good artist. Whenever he got a chance, between jobs, he would visit hospitals to draw cartoons for sick children. I lost Billy Ray, my beloved son, on July 27, 1997 to suicide. He got his gun and put into his mouth and killed himself. Suicide hurts the family. His family had always been there for him, but for some reason he chose not to let us know how depressed he was. He had met this woman on the Internet, got rid of all his possessions, quite his job, sold everything he had, and left his family and three daughters to go to Florida to start a new life with this woman he met on the Internet. He was so excited when he left Lexington, Kentucky to go to Florida to be with this woman. We do not know what happened to him while he was in Florida. He was only there for five months. We love and miss him so very much and our entire family has been suffering with terrible guilt. Of all people, for Billy Ray to do this is something that everyone is having a very difficult time trying to figure out why? He always volunteered to help others, never giving himself enough time for just him. He had so much to give to this world. He had three daughters, twins (Jessica and Sara) he adopted that were his x-wife’s, and Lauren his biological daughter whom he loved dearly. Billy Ray had to be feeling a pain that was so foreign to him that he couldn’t find the words or a way to reach out to the people he knew loved him so very much. I believe that if he had been able to think more clearly he would have never intentionally hurt his family or himself. Something, I know, scared him to the point where he just decided to end it all, and what that is I will probably never know, but I still try to figure out why. We just have to accept the fact that we may never know what he was thinking or experiencing the five months before he decided to take his life in the manner he did. He was a religious person, and I don’t understand why he chose to commit suicide. He had to think that at that time, he had no other choice. Something happened to him while he was in Florida. We love him so very much and miss him terribly. Life for our family has forever changed.

Billy Ray Wheeler’s Mother

A piece of art by Billy Ray Wheeler

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Name at birth:    Marie Cecila Elizabeth Loughlin  
Date of birth:    25 January 1920 
Place of birth:   Keysville, New York
Date of death:    14 December 1994 
Place of death:   San Diego, USA 
Place of burial:  Highland Cemetery, South Bend, Indiana USA

Submitted by: Judith Marie Dodd (jmd197@pacbell.net)

Our Mother, Marie Cecila Elizabeth Loughlin, Kochendofer, Waters, whom we loved dearly, who was the Matriarch of the Loughlin Clan; including being the first born of 10, and gave life to 5 children, and is grandmother to 11 and great-grandmother to 7. Thank you for this oportunity to express this, and a place to visit her when I need to feel in touch with her spirt.

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Since I met you, I’ve fallen in love with you at least a hundred times, for a hundred different reasons.  Sometimes I fell in love with you when I watched you doing something you enjoyed, something you were involved in that you were unaware of my presence.  Sometimes I fell in love with you when I listened to you talk to other people. Whether you were being interesting and funny or warm and caring and genuinely concerned, you had a way of making people feel better with nothing more than words.  Sometimes I fell in love with you just remembering all the memories we’ve made, falling in love for the first time, staying in love during the rough times, finding more to love about each other every day.  And whenever I thought about the wonderful things the were to lie ahead of us, I fell totally and completely in love with you all over again.

Your loving husband

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Name at birth:    Charles Ernest Walker 
Date of birth:    August 30th, 1947 
Place of birth:   Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. 
Date of death:    July 6th, 1996 
Place of death:   Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. 
Place of burial:  Topeka Cemetary, Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A.

Submitted by: Robin Walker (REW@srmspo.wpo.state.ks.us)

To the breath of my life, forever….
The earth was blessed in 1947, when Charles Ernest Walker was born. As a boy he was called “Sonny”, and later “Chuck”. In 1988 he was given a chance for new life, when he underwent a heart transplant, and then, he married me. In 1990 our beautiful boy was born, Adam Charles Walker, the pride and joy of his father. Chuck was swiftly taken by the angels on July 6th, 1996. He is still with us — watching, protecting, and smiling with love. We will be with him again — in the blink of an eye.

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Leroy John Walden (Roy) Seaman 1st class United States Navy
Son of Bert and Myrtle Walden
Beloved Husband of Virginia B.(McCoy) Walden.
Loving Father of three adopted children.
Deanna Marie Walden, John Craig Walden and Edward Leroy Walden. Two Grandchildren born after his death.
Dustin Matthew Walden and Erika LeeAnn Walden.
Six Brothers-Jim, Gerald, Clarence, Leonard, Wilburn and Seth.
Six Sisters-Norma, Pat, Mary, May, Carolyn, and Alice.
Leroy (Roy always loved to coon hunt with his best friend and companion (Old Rambler his hunting dog).
He was an Auto Mechanic for several years.
Retired at an early age, with heart problems.
He loved children.
We all feel God put Wings on his shoulders, when he reached Heaven.
He was the greatest Father to all of us.
We miss you Daddy!
You will always be in our hearts.
Someday we know you will greet us again with open arms.
Rest in Peace Our Loving Father
Sadly missed by all!

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Name at birth:    Margaret Ann Villeneuve 
Date of birth:    27-01-1922 
Place of birth:   Iron River, Michigan 
Date of death:    13-04-1946 
Place of death:   Ishpeming, Michigan 
Place of burial:  Catholic cemetery at Ishpeming, Michigan

Submitted by: Charles Urquhart (flycheck@pulsenet.com)

Margaret Ann was born on January 27, 1922 in Iron River, Michigan. She attended Parochial and Public Schools in Ishpeming, Michigan. Graduated from Ishpeming High School Class of 1939. Died April 13, 1946 at 8:45 P.M. of an embolism following emergency surgery. She is buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Ishpeming, Michigan.

Total days of life (8846)            Total hours (212,304)

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Name at birth:    Shane Michael Urban 
Date of birth:    09-21-1977 
Place of birth:   Salina, KS, USA 
Date of death:    09-11-1980 
Place of death:   Wichita, KS, USA 
Place of burial:  Roselawn Cemetery (Garden of Memories), Salina, KS, USA

Submitted by: Janet Zech (jzech@scoular.com)

Forever Loved
Forever Missed
I Love You Shane,
Mommy

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Name at birth:    FRANCES ADELAIDE LOCKMAN 
Date of birth:    21-05-1919
Place of birth:   UNITED STATES 
Date of death:    23-05-1996 
Place of death:   ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN USA 
Place of burial:  OAKWOOD CEMETERY FENTON, MICHIGAN USA

Submitted by: sally kennedy (sken316@aol.com)

LOVING MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER
FLY HIGH MY BEAUTIFUL ANGEL, I MISS YOU DARLING AND LOVE YOU SO.
GOODNIGHT MA

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Name at birth:    Joshua John Turville 
Date of birth:    11/25/1975 
Place of birth:   Santa Ana, CA USA 
Date of death:    09/24/1996 
Place of death:   Bayfield, CO  USA 
Place of burial:  Fairhaven Memorial Park & Morturary

Submitted by: Steven Turville (turville@enc.com)

God has belssed me w/life eternal! What a wonderful
privilege it is to be used by God. I pray that I may never
hinder God’s witness through my life but always progress it.
God is my stength when I am weak, oh and He is the treasure
that I seek! PRAISE THE LORD, for He is greatly to be
praised! My God is everything in One – My strength, my
creator, my savior, my father, my encourager, my King, and
He is my friend.
He does all that and still spends time/me AMAZING.

Josh’s Diary Entry – July 25, 1995

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