Hey Bran! / Tara Schollenberger (Friend) I saw your mom and dad yesterday, They both look wonderful, and your mom, beautiful as always!! Your taking good care of them! You have a little "nephew" on the way, he is due the end of December! I know Jason would want you to be here to meet his new baby, but please keep an eye on little Joey, as he needs a touch from heaven right now...you know what that means!! We love you and Miss you everyday!! Love, Tara, Jason, Ams, and Joey.
What's It Like Up There? / Evan Pettrey (Friend from HS ) Hard to believe you and Twilley are gone. So many memories of the two of you. Remember how bad the 2-a-days at the start of football season were?
Somebody close to me is having a struggle much like you did. If you find the time, give her some strength.
Hard to believe we've been out of high school for 7 years. I went back for the homecoming game, we beat Annapolis 23-0. It was like stepping back in time.
Keep up the good fight, I'll see you in the next life.
miss u / Fred Scheper (best friend )
Hey Bud,
Its been hard to get on here and write u something even though i talk to u all the time...well as u have been seeing i have a new house and im really looking forward to moving in..your mom,dad and brooke have been really good to me and i have been helping them out as much as i can for u...i just want u to know that i never forget about u any second of the day,week,month or year..u know that ur my best friend and hopefully i will see u again someday..just keep ur familys head up for me thats most important..well i love u man and keep giving me those great signs that make me smile...
Love,
Fredneck
Christmas/ Meghan Gentile (Friend) Hey Bran. Just wanted to say Merry Christmas and I miss you. I think about you everyday and talk to you as much as I can without people thinking I've gone crazy. I hope you continue to look out for us. We all love you. Merry Christmas honey! I love you, miss you, wish I could see you ... all that ;)
Love,
Meg
Missing you everyday... / Chris Sadler (Friend) Frenchy,
I think about you daily. I miss you more and more everyday. I wish you were still here to go fishing with, hangout with, get into trouble with, and laugh with. You always were the life of the party. Until I see you again, may you rest in power...always in my heart.
Chris
Hey Big Boy / Jason Schollenbegrer (Friend) I just found out about your awesome site. There are some crazy things going on and we all miss you. Just wanted to stop by and say hi.
You Are Missed / Sharon Tarasco Brandon,
It’s been a year since your family lost you – it has gone fast, it has gone so slow. They miss you desperately, but they know too, that although they can’t see you physically, your presence is all around them.
Your mother means the world to me. She misses you desperately, and will need your strength to get through today without you here. Please wrap your arms around her and comfort her. I hope that you will always be near me too, to guide me as I do my best to help her face each day. I know it was you who led her back to me and I will forever be grateful to you for that.
There was a time, not so long ago, when I felt like you were my son too. Your mother and I shared all five of our children (and some others :-)) and we had some very special times when you were a little guy. I’m sorry I missed your teenage years, and watching you grow into a man. I have another chance with your beautiful sister, and I very much look forward to getting to know her.
But most of all, I want to promise you that I will be there for your mother whenever she needs me, for as long as I live. She’s a very special lady, Brandon, but I know you already know that. Help her find peace today.
Love, Miss Sharon
missing you.. / Colleen Lare (Friend) I can't believe its actually been one year! this past year has been rough, its seems like just yesterday i was talkin to you and we were supposed to go shopping together.out of all of the days that have passed, there is not one day that i did not think of you. some days i smiled, some i laughed, and some days i cried. I have picture in my room of us, its a horrible picture of me but its the only one i have of just me and you. I talk to it sometime when im frustrated or sad. I know you probably think im crazy. When we used to talk all the time, and i would be venting my problems to you, you would just say "suck it up and be a man"! you always knew how to make me laugh, even in the worst situations. Some days are harder than others. I'm so glad that i met you and got to become so close of friends with you. You have forever changed my life. I know now, life is precious. and you can't take anything for granted.When i found out a couple months ago that i might have to undergo major heart surgery i turned to you, i prayed and prayed that it was all a dream. I knew i had a bad heart, but i never wanted to face the truth. thankfully no surgery as of yet. but it may be in my near future. which scares me...A LOT! thats why now i take each day as it is handed to me. Even the littlest things i dont take for granted anymore. I used to not say i love you too alot of people, now i say it all the time. I know first hand how precious life is, and any day could be my last. I wish i would have told you more times that i loved you so you knew i really ment it. we used to say it just joking around, well i would say LUV YA FRENCHY, and you would say yea yea....haha typical frenchy! I know i only knew you for about 2 1/2 years, it felt like a lot longer. When i first met you, i only knew you as frenchy.. then as time went on i got to know brandon. There were truely two different people, and i loved both. i loved the frenchy, who was always up for a good time, and the brandon who always had a ear to listen to my drama called life. i can still remember when i first started coming down, you said i couldnt come down unless i brought you a philly cheesesteak.... and i did, TWICE...lol then you got used to that and were expecting one every weekend. I also remember the time i brought you and mel and john down here to my house, and we went to the phillies game...you kept complaining the whole time because it was the phillies....your just lucky i took you to that game and not a EAGLES GAME!! haha then i knew you would have had a fit....That was supposed to be you and mels first date!! sorry i had to ruin it! but you guys had fun. we have soo many memories, there is not enough room on this page to fit it all. There is not enough room to tell you how much i miss you., or how much its hurts inside that i will never see you again. It's been hard this past year, but with you watching down on everyone we have somehow all gotten through it, and we are know you are with us, telling us everything is going to be okay! ..everytime i come to this page its gets me, i just break down into tears. I dont know if its the song or the pictures or the memories everyone shares that they had with you. You truely had a wonderful family, the best of friends, and a beautiful girlfriend, that all miss you soo much. Please continue to watch down on everyone and make sure we are all okay. we couldnt do it without you, i know i couldnt. I love you, and miss you soo much.
missing you / Will Fox (best friend ) hey bro it has been almost a year i think about u everyday i miss u like crazy i still dunno what to do with out u here but i know ur watchin over me i will be visiting u this weekend we had so many good times together i just wish we had so many more alright bro im gonna go before i cry my eyes out miss u bro n see u this weekend
HANDSOME ANGEL, WITH A BEAUTIFUL SMILE! / SHARI ANGEL MOM TO YANNICK WHITEHEAD (VISITOR) CHERISH THE PRECIOUS MEMORIES WITH BRANDON, THEY WILL WRAP YOU, LIKE A WARM FUZZY BLANKET. MAY YOU FIND PEACE.
BRANDON:
WE NEVER THOUGHT WE'D LOSE YOU PERHAPS THAT WAS WRONG YOU ALWAYS SEEMED A PART OF US THAT WOULD GO ON AND ON, THAT'S WHY OUR GRIEVING HAS NO END, HOWEVER HARD WE TRY OUR LOVE FOR YOU, IS FAR TOO DEEP TO EVER SAY GOODBYE WE THINK OF YOU, AS LIVING IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE, YOU TOUCHED FOR NOTHING LOVED, IS EVER LOST AND YOU ARE LOVED SO MUCH
I never met you. / Jessica Collins (Girlfriend of his best friend )
I can never say that I had the chance to meet you but I have heard so much from everybody that I feel like I have known you all my life. So far you have creeped me out a couple of times. Like when Mrs. Rhonda decided to give Fred your I-Pod and we were on our way home and I grabbed it to take it inside. Well without touching any buttons on it, it came on. So I showed Fred, of course he said well it's more than likely Brandond, he didn't like his stuff to be touched, so it then went off. Not even two seconds after that it did it again and I yelled stop and it went off but ever since then I haven't touched it. All I ask is to look over your mom, dad, sister and of course Fred.
Praise you in this storm / Terri House (Aunt) I was sure by now, God, you would have reached down and wiped our tears away, stepped in and saved the day. But once again , I say Amen, and its still raining. Well as the thunder rolls, I barely hear you whisper through the rain, I'm with you. And as your mercy falls, I raise my hands and praise the God who gives, and takes away. And I praise you in this storm and I will lift my hands, that you are are who you are, no matter where I am. And every tear I cry. you hold in your hand, you never never left my side, and though my heart is torn , I will praise you in this storm. I remember when, I stumbled in the wind, you heard my crying and raised me up again and my strength is almost gone , how can I carry on, if I cant find you. Well as the thunder rolls, I barely hear you whisper through the rain, I'm with you. And as your mercy falls I raise my hands I praise the God who gives and takes away. And I'll praise you in this storm, and I will lift lift my hands, that you are who you are, no matter where I am , and every tear I cry you hold in your hand, you never left my side, and though my heart is torn, I will praise you in this storm. I lift my eyes unto the hills, where does my help come from, my help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. Song by Casting Crowns
Rhonda & Norman I remember coming to your house when I was visiting your Mom (Ruth) Norman. Brandon was just a little boy, I think he was coming down with chicken pox or something, I can't remember what it was but he didn't feel good. anyway he was a very cute and sweet little boy I always remember that of him. Rhonda & Norm hang in there and remember you are loved and thought of often. Love You Both, Aunt Linda from Elkhart In.
Thinking of you always / Colleen Lare (Friend) There is not a day that goes by that i don't think about you. Sometime when i sit there i laugh at some of the fun times we had. Like when i first met you and you told me your name was frenchy...and how i thought that was your real first name until someone called you brandon..haha or the time that you and mel were going on your first date together and you two had to ride to philly to give john his tires because he got a flat. (im still sorry for messing up your guys first date) but you forgave me. But i took you guys to a phillies game that weekend, but i guess you payed me back when we went to an O's game! Those are the times i miss the most, just hanging out with you! I luv ya and miss ya!!
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