TCF Leesburg Chapter
March 2009
Dear Leesburg Members,
We welcome all of you to attend our monthly meetings. You can come as often or as little as you like. If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact our Leesburg Chapter Leaders, Beverly and Bernie Elero
at 540-882-9707 or belero@aol.com.
Thank you.
Other contacts:
Theresa Heitz theresaheitz@msn.com 703-729-6974
Anne Shattuck shattuck@cstone.net
~Leesburg TCF Chapter
Thank you for your Love Gift
Carmen Spirio, in loving memory of his son,
Paul Carmelo Spirio (9/2 – 3/22)
We greatly appreciate the donations made to the Leesburg Chapter of The Compassionate Friends in memory of your loved one. These tax-deductible
contributions help our chapter with the expense of the newsletter, additions to our lending library and other needs, in order that we may help bereaved families in our community. We are also glad to print any poem or memories you may want to print about your child, sibling or grandchild.
Please send your Love Gift to:
Mrs. Anne Shattuck
224 Walnut Ridge Lane
Palmyra, VA 22963
Checks payable to: TCF Leesburg
We would like to apologize for any information that is printed incorrectly. All of our volunteers are also bereaved parents, siblings or grandparents. We try
our best to keep the information correct and up to date. Thank you for your understanding. We especially remember:
Paige Mackenzie Johnson (7/20 – 12/3)
Daughter of Trish Stoskus and Dave Johnson
Stepdaughter of Dave Stoskus
Jennifer Coyne (2/16 – 7/24)
Daughter of Julie and Burton Simonds
Please email Theresa Heitz at theresaheitz@msn.com
with any corrections. Thank you.
A GRIEVING PARENT IS:
A grieving parent is someone who will never forget their child no matter how painful memories are.
A grieving parent is someone who yearns to be with their dead but cannot conceive leaving their living ones.
A grieving parent is someone who has part of a heart as the rest is buried with his or her child.
A grieving parent is someone who begs for relief from the memories which plague them and then feels guilty when they get it.
A grieving parent is someone who pretends to be happy and enjoying life when they really are dying inside.
A grieving parent is someone who can cry or laugh at the drop of a hat whenever they remember their beloved child.
A grieving parent is someone who feels as if they just lost their child yesterday no matter how much time has passed.
A grieving parent is someone who fears for their remaining family because they cannot bear to have any more losses.
A grieving parent is someone who sits by their child's gravestone and feels a knife stabbing their heart.
A grieving parent is someone who wants to help others who have lost loved ones because somehow their loss is theirs all over again.
~Author Unknown
People in mourning have to come to grips with death before they can live again. Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy.
It usually ends when people realize that they can live again, that they can concentrate their energies on their lives as a whole, and not on their hurt, guilt and pain.
~daily message from Healing After Loss by Martha Whitmore Hickman. Lifted from Atlanta Compassionate Friends online daily newsletter. www.tcfatlanta.org
