Messages to Marissa from Daddy, Mommy, Brooke, and Sammie

Marissa, this is hard for me to write this. This means that you are not here.November 8th 1995 was the day you changed my life. This was the day you were born. It was then that your mom and I knew you were special. We knew we had the perfect child. You opened my heart like no one else had. I learned from you how to be caring and loving. You had a special way of bringing people up when they were feeling down. You did not like to see people sad. I loved the time we spent together. The hugs, the kisses, the games & jokes we would play on your sister`s. I always would tell you, you were my best friend, and that you were my hero. This is why this is so hard. I lost my best friend 1-13-03, the day a big part of my heart died. I am no longer as loving. I have alot of anger in what is left of my heart. I no longer have the hugs, kisses, or laughter from you and it has broken my heart. The only way it can be mended is by joining you again. We don`t know when that will happen, but I will be ready. I love and miss you very much. Until we meet again. . . love you. . .your daddy

Marissa was my lil sis and my best friend. We had so many memories I could not say them all. We laughed and played and had so much fun. if I could change some things that would be all the times I was mean to her. I know she forgives me, though. I love and miss her more than you can ever imagine. Me and Marissa were best friends. My sissy loved the song “Dilema” by Nelly. Marissa was the best thing that happened in my life. My sissy loved being like me and Brooke we always put on makeup and Rissa would too. She always put her hair up. She loved music and her best friends are Me Brooke Mom and Dad ,and Brady Caitlyn, Kylee, Briana and them. I love me lil sister more than you can imagine and she loves me to I will sometime see you again when we meet in heaven.

love you bunches, xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox oxox

LOVE ME, SAM

Dear Rissa,

The most horrible thing happened to me 1-13-03, I lost you. I miss you soooo much I hope you know that. You were my precious perfect angel! You always hugged and kissed me, dad, & grandma so many times a day - now I kinda understand why. I`m not sure if God knew your destiny & that`s why you gave so much love to us and others constantly or what! You gave so much of yourself to us, always so concerned with others welfare. Marissa, thank you for loving me so much, for your extra kisses in the morning, for always wanting to cuddle with me on the couch, for our nightime ritual of thumbs up & thumbs down, for that peanut butter & jelly sandwich when I wasn`t feeling well, for reading to me, for all your beautiful pictures & notes, for that wonderful phone call at 8:25am (wishing me to have a great day & blowing me yet another kiss), and the after school call to say you loved me & would see me at 5:15pm, for all our fun vactions, for always running to take a bath with me as soon as you heard the water running, for writing in soap on my back. . .I love mom & dad for always. . ., for helping me fold towels, for trying to help your sister do dishes and getting water everywhere doing it, for all your cute play-doh sculptures, for the special gifts picked out by you for me on my last mother`s day, for always singing & dancing so pretty for me, for always waiting by the front door for me to get home from work, for always giving me a helping hand, and most of all for being my best friend! Marissa, you will never know the sadness I feel. I know your in heaven watching over me now, but God I wish you could be back here with me forever. I never dreamed anything this horriable could ever happen to us. Sometimes I sit & wonder what happened. Could I have done anything different to save you?? I hope you know I tried to be the best mommy in the world for you! I am glad for all the fun we had, but so saddened it is gone. I will always remember you, you were so special. . . heaven sent. Oh Marissa, I miss you so much please help me deal with this. I need you! I love you baby girl, my perfect angel. . . love always & forever your mommy

What I miss the most about Marissa, is that i don't have a cool lunch to make anymore. I don't have someone to baby. There are a lot of things that i miss about Marissa she was my lil sis, we did everything together when she got in trouble I cried because i couldn't stand her to get yelled at. I remember that she bit me and she got in trouble. I was so mad at myself we'll now.

“What I loved to do with her”. She would always come in my room if she got scared . I loved staying up all night with her and we would watch the " COSBY SHOW " in the summer. I miss that a lot. I can believe she's gone but whatever god needed her for it had better be for a good cause. because she truly was an angel. I miss her soooooooooooooooooo much. She was only 7 years old. Too young. Sometimes I wish if I could bring 1 person back then Marissa would be the person that would be back on this earth. Sometimes I think people would be much happier if they only had her back and not me [it sounds stupid but thats what I think ] but I know its not true. Well ~Rissa Butt, we’ll always miss and love you.

love always and forever

big sis [brooke lynn]