Quinn was our first angel~ she, like her little sister had my feet and Greg's hands! It was amazing and so incredibly heartbreaking to see the similarities....these are her hand and footprints ~
I have a box that is filled with the blanket that she was wrapped in, her pictures, a hat that was given to us at the hospital and other precious keepsakes.
We had Quinn buried at St.Francis Xavier Cemetery in town ~ her funeral was held on July 28. Greg and I and our father's were her pallbearers; the third hardest thing that I ever had to do. Greg read a beautiful poem and then lowered his little girl into the ground...there are no words that I can use to describe that sight. Here is a picture of her gravesite and headstone ~
The poem that Greg read ~
IN MEMORY OF QUINN CATHERINE VALERIE COOPER
YOU NEVER SAID I’M LEAVING
YOU NEVER SAID GOODBYE
YOU WERE GONE BEFORE WE KNEW IT,AND ONLY GOD KNEW WHY
A MILLION TIMES WE NEEDED YOU
A MILLION TIMES WE CRIED
IF LOVE ALONE COULD HAVE SAVED YOU,
YOU NEVER WOULD HAVE DIED
IN LIFE WE LOVED YOU DEARLY
IN DEATH WE LOVE YOU STILL
IN OUR HEARTS YOU HAD A PLACE,
THAT NO ONE COULD EVER FILL
IT BROKE OUR HEARTS TO LOSE YOU,
BUT YOU DIDN’T GO ALONE
FOR PART OF US WENT WITH YOU,
THE DAY GOD TOOK YOU HOME.
OUR LITTLE ANGEL QUINN, TAKEN FROM US JULY 21/05
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