Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

HAPPY NEW YEAR JOSHUA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

January 1, 2007

It's a rainy New Year's Eve and I've thought of you all day. It's been over 3 months now and there still isn't a day goes by that I don't think of you. You're missed so much by so many people.

Every morning I wake up, you are my first thought. I think it must be a bad dream, that it can't be real. And then I realize that it is. It doesn't seem possible that you are gone.

December 31, 2006

Josh,
wanted to say that we all miss you so very much, you have been in my thoughts so often. look in on your dad, he's not doing so well right now and i'd really like to see my rotten uncle john again. i found some pics of us when we were little and i hate that i wasn't closer to everyone now that i'm older. i'm working on that. love and miss you always.
k

December 31, 2006

JOSH, YOU DON'T REALIZE HOW MUCH YOU ARE MISSED. I HEAR STORIES ABOUT YOU EVERYDAY. YOUR TRUE FRIENDS WILL NEVER EVER FORGET YOU JOSH. PLEASE LOOK AFTER YOUR FELLOW LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS PULLING THE NIGHT SHIFT. WE WILL MEET AGAIN SOMEDAY...REST IN PEACE.

PATROLMAN

December 29, 2006

Hi Josh,

Just wanted you to know we think about you all the time. We have a picture of your kids on our bulletin board by the radio room. Peyton looks just like you. I'm sure you'll have a Happy New Year in Heaven. Hopefully, we'll all be joining you and Dale soon. Watch over us. We love you and miss you.

Jennifer
P-27

December 29, 2006

Josh,
Hope you had a Merry Christmas, Please watch over your Dad and Rita and there family. There are missing you so much everyday. There such good people and are really having a hard time.

December 28, 2006

Hope you had a wonderful first Christmas in Heaven, Josh. You are missed so much. Please look over your friends and family. They need you more now than they ever did.

December 26, 2006

Josh I WAS SITTING HERE AT WORK ON CHRISTMAS EVENING AND I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT YOU ALL DAY LONG AND I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT YOUR DAD ALSO AND I JUST WANTED TO WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND TELL YOU THAT I MISS SEEING YOU HERE AT THE POST.

REGINA RUSSELL
FRIEND

December 25, 2006

Merry Christmas,Josh.Watch over Dad.He's having a really hard time right now.Grief has consumed his life.I love you.

December 25, 2006

Merry Christmas Josh!! You are missed!!!!

December 25, 2006

Dear Josh:

I'm writting you this letter to keep you up to date. Everyone says "things will get easier" but my tears have never stopped. I miss you so much! It seems just about everyone has either known you or known of you -
and they have nothing but praise of you.
Thanks for helping me get your deer, the one you spotted back in July. It turned out to be an 11-pointer. I know you were with me - I couldn't have done it alone.
Your great-aunt is having a mass dedicated to your memory, Dec. 26th, in Fords, N.J.
Hope you like your Christmas tree, and, if you were here I'd bake your favorite cookies.
Your passing has minimized everything else in my life - good or bad, - past or future. It might be considered morase, but truth is I look forward to seeing you again. You were one of the best things to happen in my life. I wish your life could have been better - "family" - was so important to you. I also wish I could have attained the goals I now have while, you were still here. Things would have been much better for you and everyone else. Please forgive me.
Have a beautiful and glorious first Christmas in Heaven.

Love, Mom

December 24, 2006

MERRY CHRISTMAS JOSHUA !!!!!!!!!!!!!

December 24, 2006

Josh, I just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and let you know that you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers this holiday season. I think of you everyday. I am thankful and cherish all of the memories we shared working together on midnights. Lord knows we have many...but most of all, I want to thank you for your friendship!! You are a true friend...and are missed greatly!!

Merry Christmas 491!!!

Brandy
P27 Dispatcher

December 23, 2006

Josh, although I never had the chance to meet you, I wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas.

Heather
Ohio State Highway Patrol

December 22, 2006

It,s time to pack our bags and hit the highway
And head on out for christmas holiday
I'll fall apart when I pull in the driveway
It's my first time home since brother passed away
His favorite time of year was always Christmas
We'll reminisce about the days gone by
Oh how I wish that he was still here with us
My memories with him will never die


But when the stockings are hung
And Silent Night has been sung
And Christmas is finally here
It won't be the same this year


Losing my big brother hurt so badly
It's help me learn what Christmas really means
There's nothing more important than your family
We're all the children of the king of kings



But when the stockings are hung
And Silent Night has been sung
And Christmas is finally here
It won't be the same this year

December 22, 2006

Josh, it was another rainy thursday. it seems like it has rained every thurday since sept. 28. i have seen your marker and it does represent you and your short life. i also talked to your family today. your son seems to grow weekly. your daughter cute as a button wearing orange kool-aide. they are excited about christmas. miss you man.

pacman
oshp

December 21, 2006

Josh, please watch over your family and friends as this will be their first Christmas of many without you. I know that your family misses you so much. I pray for them daily and hope that they will find a way to go on.

It breaks my heart just thinking that they have the rest of their lives and they cant share that with you. Sometimes life is just plain unfair.

All of your patrol family is moving through life slowly. They still talk and tell "Josh Risner Stories" and I hope they never stop. I hope that both of your children will someday be able to hear those stories.

As you know, there are several "troops" that may need a little extra blessing to make it through the holiday season, so if you get a chance, would you mind to put in a good word for them? Josh, they love you and they miss you so badly. Some of them talk about it and some of them wont, but they all miss you.

May you rest in peace knowing that we will never forget you.

Frequent Visitor
Ohio State Highway Patrol

December 21, 2006

I miss ya Josh. I am left with some great memories of our crazy youth, but I would do anything to see that big ol'goofy smile one more time. There was so many things I wanted to share with you, but just got to busy to call. Life just got in the way, and now this. I hope everyone who reads this doen't make the same mistake I made.

If you left this world not knowing, that I loved you like a brother, I know you are in a place, where NOW you know...

Dan Bloomfield
Friend

December 18, 2006

Why is it that sometimes it still feels like it just happened? I think about you all the time and I regret so much that we weren't as close as we should have been. I love you and would have done anything in the world for you because you are my brother.

J

December 18, 2006

God bless and rest easy, Troop. I am so very glad that your name has been cleared; we all knew it would.

Trooper
Michigan State Police

December 17, 2006

I miss you a little since you've been gone
A few little memories keep hangin' on
I miss you a little, I guess you could say
A little too much, a little too often
A little more every day

December 15, 2006

MY FIRST CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN

I see the countless Christmas trees
around the world below,
with tiny lights like heavens stars
reflecting on the snow.

The sight is so spectacular,
please wipe away the tear
for I am spending Christmas
with Jesus this year

I hear the many Christmas songs
that people hold so dear
but the sounds of music can't compare
with the Christmas choir up here

I have no words to tell you,
the joy their voices bring,
for it is beyond description,
to hear the angels sing

I know how much you miss me
I see the pain inside your heart
but I am not so far away
we really aren't apart.

So be happy for me dear ones,
you know I hold you dear,
and be glad I'm spending Christmas
with Jesus this year.

I sent you a specical gift,
from my heavenly home above
I sent you each a memory
of my undying Love

After all Love is a gift more
precious than pure gold
It was always most important
in the stories Jesus told.

Please Love and keep each other,
as my father said to do
for I can't count the blessings or Love
he has for each of you.

So have a Merry Christmas and
wipe way that tear
remember I'm spending Christmas
with Jesus this year.

December 14, 2006

A true cop steps up to help those in need and you did just that. We have pictures and memories of you all over our house. I will break out the santa hats so you can see how silly we all look with them on.

December 14, 2006

still thinking of you everyday...

Brandy
P27

December 14, 2006

Pacman stay strong. Most of us have been through this before. I've found that praying helps quite a bit. I will be praying for you, Risner's family, the OHP Administration, as well as everyone involved. May God Bless

Gillock
Army

December 12, 2006