Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Melissa
It has been a year since you were taken away... we all miss you and Love you lots ... Keep watching over us from above....
Love you

Julie

December 5, 2005

melissa,
it has been one year. it doesn't seem possible that a year has passed. i still miss you so much and wish with all my heart i could hug you just one more time. i think about you everyday wondering what heaven must be like for you.
we had memorial services on the 4th in your honor. both seemed to go well and helped your loved ones get through the day.
this is especially difficult around the holidays as it seems unfair to celebrate thanksgiving and christmas when we are feeling the loss of a loved one. we will celebrate though, because you would not have wanted us to be sad and feel sorry for ourselves.
i am continuing my promise to watch over your angel, Lanie. she is bright, beautiful and energetic.
we love and miss you very much. my thoughts and prayers are with your family during this holiday season.

love ya,
lmp

December 5, 2005

Mel,
It was one year ago that I got that phone call telling me to turn on the new that you had been killed and tonight i sit in that same room wrighting you this. I went to the crash sit last night and to all the Officers that where ther I wish to thank you for being thier in such horriable weather though I dont think any thing would have stopped them from being there to Honor and rember you. It was very Beautifull and yet so sombering at the same time. as you well know i have went to a lot of police officer funireal but until now have never been part of the tragic after math that the loss of an officer has not only on his/her family but on the brother and sister officers. T J had a sign made up it is round has your badge on it and says E.O.W. 12/04/2004 I wish to thank him so much but im not quit sure how. The sound of about 15 cruisers sirens driving past your cruiser sitting side ways acrost the road blacked out was some thing I will never forget. We went to the lunch in today that lisa set up it was wonderfull Lanie insisted she wear her new red dress she looked so beautifull she is looking so much like you more and more everyday. Adam was thier I didnt give him much choice. Then we went to the citys memorial and Amy read Please Rember Me by Tim McGraw she also did it last night. I feel for her she is such a wonderfull women and everyone keeps puting he on the but some how she does it every time and is so good at it.I am ging to go for now cant see the key boared

I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU SO MUCH
AND PEOPLE ARE RIGHT IT IS NOT GETTING ANY EASER BUT I HAVE TO KEEP ON FOR OUR DAUGHTER
ROB

December 5, 2005

Melissa,
I cannot believe that it has been a year! You are remembered everyday. Thank you for being such a wonderful officer, mom and person. We miss you.

December 4, 2005

Dear friend, It has been a day to reflect and remember. I am thankful that God and you put an idea in my head on how to honor you one year after your death. Your love of job and children and friends and family are to be respected and admired forever. I love you and I will check later this week on everyone, to make sure they got through the day. It is painful but I now try to remember the wonderful parts of your life and our friendship. Thank you for being you. Denise

December 4, 2005

Melissa
It has been a year that you have been taken away from us... No its not getting easier.. Keep watching over us from above.... miss you and Love you lots...

December 4, 2005

Melissa,
It was one year today... I will never forget. I will continue to pray for your children and for your partners and family.

Thank you for your service and dedication.

Please watch over the rest of us until we can have the Great Roll Call with our Lord..

HEROS LIVE FOREVER !!!

December 4, 2005

It was a year today ,we lost you.Your family has lost so much.
I still cant believe this happened.
I pray for you families healing.
Watch over us please.We love and miss you very much.

December 4, 2005

Merry Christmas From Heaven

I still hear the songs
I still see the lights
I still feel your love
on cold wintery nights

I still share your hopes
and all of your cares
I'll even remind you
to please say your prayers

I just want to tell you
you still make me proud
You stand head and shoulders
above all the crowd

Keep trying each moment
to stay in His grace
I came here before you
to help set your place

You don't have to be
perfect all the time
He forgives you the slip
If you continue to climb

To my family and friends
please be thankful today
I'm still close beside you
In a new special way

I love you all dearly
now don't shed a tear
Cause I'm spending my
Christmas with Jesus this year

Michigan

December 4, 2005

Melissa,
One year ago you were taken from us, just wanted you to know that you are not forgotten, and you are missed deeply. Still hard to believe you are gone, doesnt seem to get any easier... Keep watching over us. Love you
Cindy

December 4, 2005

It was One year ago you were taken from us by a drunk driver who had/has no respect for life... We will honor you at the crash site and honor you at a luncheon later in the day.. I will always honor you as long as I can on 3rd shift seeking out and arresting impaired drivers! I only wish other officers would understand the importance of it and start doing the same.... Look over us and keep us safe!!!

Officer Jim Gilbert
Columbus Division of Police

December 3, 2005

It will be one year that you were called away. I know for your family it seems like so long ago since they last were able to hold and talk to you. The tears still flow and will for a long long time. I wish there were some magical words I could say that would help them with their grief, but there are none. I have the outside of my home completely decorated with blue lights, one of those lights has been lit in your honor since before Thanksgiving and will be lit every night until New Years as my family's way of saying that you have not been forgotten nor will you ever be forgotten.

Bob Gordon, father of fallen officer Michael P. Gordon, EOW: 8/8/04

Bob Gordon

December 2, 2005

Happy Holidays Melissa.. you are missed by all!

Cadet
Westerville

December 1, 2005

Mel,
Sorry I haven’t wrote to you in a while we spent Thanksgiving day at your parents house it was really nice to see everyone. Lanie Played with everyone and had a good time unfortunately we had to leave early because she was having a hard time dealing with it. But it was really good day. She is getting so big and smarter every day. I talked to John a few weeks ago, he went to mod watch sergeant. I know that would have made you happy. Im having a hard time trying not to think about Sunday the day you will have been gone for one year. It seem like the closer it gets the more of a basket case I become, I have been trying to keep my mind preoccupied with anything I can but its not that easy because I miss you so much. I was thinking about last thanksgiving we went getting a long to well that night and im just so sorry for being such a butt head. I got a reply from Chief Jackson of course he said it was imposable to start a DUI unit no surprise there. I put in a few applications at some P.D.s close to here and a couple are pretty promising I just hope Lanie can handle me going back to work, she told me she wants me to get a job cleaning houses.
Well im going to go for now
I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU SO MUCH
ROB

Rob

November 30, 2005

An officer was hit last night by a pickup truck on Lehman right off of Gender. So close to where you were taken from us. We heard all the sirens, etc.. Thank you for watching over him. It sounds like he will be ok.
Thinking about your sweet children and family as we approach the 1 year mark of your death.
Prayers to all, Please keep watching over us.

November 30, 2005

Miss you so much today. I wish you were here with me to hold me up on this difficult day. Your love to Steve and I meant more than anyone could understand. I am dealing with today and the anniversary of your death this week. I still hear the officer telling me in the middle of the night in the living room that you didn't make it. It will stay with me forever, but like that night, my first thoughts are of your children. Be with me during this time. Denise

November 30, 2005

Please know that you continue to be in our thoughts and prayers as you approach the one year anniversary of Melissa's tragic and very unnecessary death. She will always be remembered as a hero.

Linda Lamm - LEO Wife and Sister of
Jay Balchunas EOW 11.05.04

November 29, 2005

Happy Thanksgiving Melissa... Wish you were here.... Miss you and Love you.....

November 24, 2005

Miss you and love you lots... wish you were here this thanksgiving...

November 23, 2005

I pray for the many officers this time of year who don't get holidays with their families, and the families who have lost their officers and won't get those holiday times. Melissa, I know it was a calling for you to be an officer and I know you tried to shield me from some of the awful things that happen to officers, but I never would have imagined a drunk driver killing you on the ordinary call. I remember talking to so many of the people in Washington and each story touched to my inner being on what an important task each officer does. I continue to send all my love to all of your family, friends and coworkers as we face this time without you. Love you, Denise

November 22, 2005

I know you will be watching over all of us this holiday season as you do everyday. Miss and Love you so much !!

November 21, 2005

This Thankgiving wont be the same with out you

November 20, 2005

Thanks Denise for watching over the children they love you lots

November 15, 2005

Melissa, I know so many prayers have gone to God for Jimmy and Irene. I pray for Owen and especially Lanie. It has been a horrible week for her. We saw a movie, went grocery shopping, had a bath with one of your favorite bubble baths, aloe vera, and tried to do normal with two relatives in two hospitals. Watch over her today for Grandma Irene's surgery. I will check later in to see how all is going. I know my one task from you, Officer Foster, is to make sure both the children are well and I am trying my best for that. Love you lots, Denise

November 14, 2005

Hi Mel,

Sitting here at the hospital waiting for Jimmy to come out of surgery, he hit his leg with a saw and cut it down to the bone 7 to 12 inches long and broke his knee cap in half. watch over him for me and make sure hes ok. lanie is with grandma d so ill see her soon. im going to go for now
LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU
ROB

Rob Thornton

November 11, 2005