Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

ALLEN,TODAY IS APRIL 23,2002. APRIL 25 WILL MAKE FOUR YEARS SINCE YOU LEFT US. WE ALL FOUGHT AND PRAYED FOR JUSTICE, IN SEPTEMBER 17,2001 GOD FINALLY LET THAT JUSTICE HAPPEN. THE JUDGE SENTENCED TERRANCE RICHARDSON AND FERRONE CLAIBORNE TO LIFE IN FEDERAL PRISON WITHOUT ANY POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE.WE ALL LOVE AND MISS YOU AND IT'S BEEN A ROUGH FOUR YEARS. BUT NOW WE ALL SERVE GOD AND WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE WITH YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN AND WE WILL ALL MEET YOU THERE SOME DAY. MAY YOU REST IN PEACE. A WONDERFUL PERSON LIKE YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. LOVE ALWAYS, MOM, DAD, CRISSANA, DOUG, TANYA, KRISTOPHER, AND BABY ALLEN

MOM & FAMILY
BIG STONE GAP,VA

HEY BUD IT'S BEEN A ROUGH FEW YEARS WITHOUT YOU. BUT YOU KNOW THAT. OUR LITTLE GIRL IS GROWING UP TO BE A BEAUTIFUL REFLECTION OF HER DADDY. EVERY TIME I LOOK AT HER I SEE YOU. I HATE THAT IT TOOK SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO PULL ALL OF US TOGETHER. YOU WERE ALWAYS THE PEACE MAKER. YOUR DEATH HAS MADE ME REALIZE THAT LIFE IS A GIFT AND SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED. SO LITTLE TIME IN THIS WORLD SO WE SHOULD NOT WASTE IT. I KNOW YOUR LIFE WAS CUT SHORT, BUT YOU HAVE CRISSANA'S LIFE EVEN MORE SPECIAL. NOW YOU CAN WATCH OVER HER ALWAYS. I THINK ABOUT YOU EVERYDAY AND MISS YOU VERY MUCH. I KNOW OUR MARRIAGE DIDN'T LAST BUT THE LOVE WE SHARED RESULTED IN A BEAUTIFUL CHILD. THE MOST PRECIOUS THING WE COULD HAVE EVER ACCOMPLISHED TOGETHER OR APART. SHE IS A VERY SPECIAL CHILD TO EVERYONE. PEOPLE LOOK AT HER AND THEIR EYES JUST SHINE. BECAUSE I KNOW YOU LOVED HER ENOUGH THE EIGHT YEARS YOU WERE IN HER LIFE TO LAST FOREVER. SO DON'T BE SAD BUD BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH YOU AREN'T HERE ON EARTH YOU LIVE THROUGH US ALL IN OUR HEARTS. YOU LEFT A MIRACLE FOR EVERYONE TO LOVE. SHE IS A MIRACLE.OUR MIRACLE. LOVE YOU ALWAYS AND FOREVER! PAM

pamela Wells
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Hey Allen,
I can't believe it has been over three years now since you've been gone. I had a REALLY hard time after you were killed. I spent the first year wanting to die and refusing to live my life without you. Then, with a lot of help from family and most of all God, I realized that I had to pick up the pieces of my shattered life. I decided to move to a city a few hours from home and "start over". In February of 2000, I was hired as a Police Officer...Patrol Division!! I graduated the Police Academy in July 2000 and have been on the road since. Can you believe it? It's a great feeling to know your making a little difference in this sad world.

I still think about you and Crissana. I don't get to see her, but I pray that God helps her through all the things she must face in this life and that she knows I love her and always will. I was thinking the other day about some of the good times we all had. Those were the "simple days" I guess, when we just assumed we would live forever.

Allen, you watch over me while I'm on patrol and help guard me from danger. And remember I will 10-25 you again....
Love Always, your wife Laura
a/k/a Officer Gibson - Bet you never thought your name would be on another uniform, did you?

Laura Gibson