On January 17, 2004, we lost a very good friend in Jamie Levine. She will be forever missed and we set up this page as a tribute to the times we remember spending with her. If you knew Jamie, please feel free to leave a comment below. If you have any pictures you'd like to share, please feel free to post links to view them or CONTACT US for info on the gallery. If you'd like to donate to a charity in Jamie's name, please check out you will always have a lucky star -- that shines because of who you are-- because your aim is true-- and if I could only have one wish-- darling then it would be this-- love and happiness to you. And to you David. Jamie I just want to say that I am so very proud or you and your brother. You and David are both so brave and kind. I love you both with all my heart. WEE-JAX Jamie I want to talk to you, I want to hug you. I have been talking to you all day in my thoughts. So I guess I'll just put it here. Your friend Laura got married. And Robin is married with two dogs. Isn't that wonderful. David called today with good news. He has been working hard on getting out of that place in Merced. He has been talking to Patient Advocacy Inc. and has an appointment with them. Dad and I are going to visit him on Sat. I know you are proud of him. As always sweet heart we miss you so. I am wondering what you are doing in heaven today? There is so much here on earth I long to share with you. Always and forever your Mama I was just thinking of you Jamie (all good of course!). I still can't believe you're not here. I know everything happens for a reason, but it's so hard for us to understand some things. I know your family misses you every second of every day. You will always be in my heart. I miss you. May 17th Sat. 2003- in my mind I am there on that most important and special day. It is the day we were all there in celebration of Jamie's excellence and brilliance and all the long nights of hard work. We all gathered together happy and proud of Jamie achieving her goal as she got her Master of the Arts degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University. Oh what a happy day! Is was so complete with spending three days together and getting to know Jamie's true love Wayne Price. After breakfast Curtis and I and Jamie and Wayne were saying our good byes and hugging- Jamie and I and Daddy had tears and as we were driving out the drive way-Wayne stopped the car- Jamie got out and run toward us- we got out and hugged and hugged some more I can still feel those hugs and emotions now. I thank God for you Jamie. Love Always Mama thank you for your passion of living I am in the Comfort Room. Through the window I can see a new thin cover of snow on the mountain across the river. It is gray and cloudy. I need one of your hugs. If I could hug you once more I would never let you go. I need to hear your pure laugh out loud. I can still hear you laugh if I am in a quiet place, and I am thankful for that. I need your guidance and miss talking to you. I have to bear the unbearable. We all do. Mom misses you every minute of every day. It breaks my heart to see her so sad. David misses you too. He is doing so poorly. There is nowhere to turn it seems. I am going to the courthouse Monday morning to see if something can be done to help David. If you can help I know you will. Memories sustain us. Love KEEPS us. We are well kept. I am in the comfort room. It's a gray and cloudy morning. There is a thin cover of new snow on the mountain across the river. Jamie, I could sure use your guidance and wisdom this moment. David is not doing well, and he needs you more than ever. We all do. He is hurting so much. We could use just one of your hugs. Well, you know that it would be a very long hug ... I would never let you go! Oh to hear you laugh out loud. I can still hear you laugh if I listen in quiet, and I am so thankful for your pure laughter. I guess I can simply say I want you to know that I miss you more each day. I look for you and feel like I should be able to find you and reach out and touch you. Mom misses you every second of every day, and my heart breaks for her. There is nowhere to turn it seems. I am going to the courthouse Monday morning to see if something can be done to help David. We must keep the faith, but I will tell you in all honesty, it is difficult and confusing. It is love that keeps our bond, and for that I am thankful. I was just out on the front porch getting the planter box ready to plant. The birds are singing, they are just so special, the little yellow finches come so close and look at me. Tomorrow is Easter Sunday . I was hoping to be with David but your Daddy is sick. I miss you and David more than I can even say. If only I could have all the time back with both of you, I'd never let you go. You kids give the best hugs. I have my I-Pod on listening to Jackson Browne.-the song is for a dancer. " Keep a fire burning in your eyes, pay attenion to the open sky, you never know what will be coming down, I don't remember losing track of you.....you were always dancing in and out of view. I must of thought you would always be around......now your nowhere to be found. I don't what happens when people die, can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try, it is like a song I hear playing right in my ear, that I can't sing, and I can't stop listening......and can't help feeling studip standing round crying is the easier down. Cause I know that you would rather we were dancing....dancing our sorrows away.--- How can I express how much I miss you? I will see you in Heaven one day. The last time Dad and I saw you was at the airport in Reno, you stoped and turned and waved and smiled. I love you so much Jamie. Big Hugs and Love MOM Tears always come when I go to the web site and read. What wonderful tributes still being made to Jamie! She is gone but never forgotten and never will be, she will always live on in our heart and mind! She touched so many hearts in her short stay on earth. I can see her loving smile and learn how much that means so I try to smile more and love more. Thank you Jamie! Love always and forever, Auntie G It does my heart good when friends write on Jamie's site. It is wonderful that Beth and Leigh are back in our lives. I am listening to "Rainbow Connection" and missing you. Love and Big Hugs MAMA I knew Jamie as a young child,she was happy and fun to be with. When our cat had kittens we gave one to the family his name was Moe. Time has passed and we have lost contact. I was shocked to hear of Jamie's passing. She will forever be in our thoughts and hearts and we will smile when we remember all the happy times! I lost contact with the Levine family years ago but just recently re-connected. I am shocked and so saddened by this loss. Jamie was the most precious little girl! I never knew her as a "woman", but I'm certain she was an amazing woman. I will miss you Jamie! Happy Birthday Sweet Jamie. We were in Southern Oregon this weekend and as we crossed the border from California to Oregon we were surrounded on all sides by flocks of ducks and geese of all types. Beautiful pairs of Canadian Geese in the fields, and it all made me think of you and how you loved spring. Our hearts are made heavy, but not hard with your loss and everyone of us, so blessed to have known you, celebrate the day you came into our world and our lives and are thankful for the love and grace you brought in your brief time with us and still seek the comfort of understanding why you had to leave so soon. We miss you every day and will love you always. She is as in a field a silken tent At midday when a sunny summer breeze Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent, So that in guys it gently sways at ease, And its supporting central cedar pole, That is pinnacle to heavenward And signifies the sureness of the soul, Seems to owe not to any single cord, But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware. Robert Frost's tribute to the kind of loving woman that you were and always will be. Happy Birthday Jamie. Mom and I just went to visit David in Merced yesterday. He was sad. We had a long drive home, but had good conversation and listened to good music. When we went past Dream Shack Valley, we thought of the four of us driving in the Willie Wagon six years ago on the way home from Lake Tahoe, and David asking, "When will the deer come home mama?" We laughed at the time, but now we know, the deer were home. It is your birthday, and I can vividly recall 34 years ago bring mom (and you) to the hospital in Fort Collins. The old car wouldn't go into gear until I nudged it with a can of starter fluid, and then we drove through the new snow for 45 minutes. It all went well and you so were beautiful and stayed that way your whole life. This is such a special day because of you and the woman you became. Happy Birthday my sweet daughter. Thanks for writing those beautiful sentiments Christy. The image of Jamie playing in a peaceful waterfall is heart-warming and similar to a dream I have once in a while. I love that dream and am always sad when find myself awake. I miss you Jamiekins. Just finished reading an amazing book titled The Shack. A man whose daughter was taken tragically gets a note from God to visit him at the place she was murdered. He goes to the shack and spends the weekend with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. While I consider myself a spiritual rather than religious person, I found this book so touching, especially when the father goes behind a waterfall with Jesus and can see his daughter playing and laughing and waving to him from the other side. Our faith is like that waterfall, we know you are happy on the other side even though we are unable to see you. To me the biggest lesson of the book was that it is our relationships with others, the quality of those relationships that bring us closer to God and bring him into us. It strikes me that that is exactly how you lived ..... kind, caring, loving and never judging others .... It is not only your smile, warmth and sweet hugs we miss, but your example of grace. While we will never get the kind of invitation from God that the man in the book did, we do have an invitation through how we live, love and treat those around us. We are so happy for MR. and MRS. Grant Baciocco! Grant and Suzanne, may your home be filled with Love and Happiness. We are sure there will be alot of laughter. Best wishes-Curtis and Dori and David Happy Valentine's day my sweet Jamie. This was always such a special, fun day - because you made it so, I loved getting my Valentine card from you, because you always wrote such sweet things. The cards you gave me, I still have and among my most precious memories. Tank you for being the most special daughter that a dad could ever have. Love always, Dad My sweet Jamie- I feel you around me and I feel love. We are going to visit your brother on Valentines Day. I hope you are dancing on a cloud with Wayne. I often wonder "What are they doing in heaven today" I cleaned and changed the "Comfort" room . Holding each thing that is so special to me. I read in a little friendship book of yours, this poem---Friends are together when they are separated, they are rich when they are poor, strong when they are weak, and-a thing even harder to explain-they live on after they have died, so great is the honor that follows them, so vivid the memory, so poignant the sorrow.---Cicero Happy-Happy birthday to Robin Ann- we are her biggest fans-we are so happy she married her man this year! So heres a cheer and a wish for Love and Happiness! WEE-JAX Dori, Curtis, and David--our thoughts and prayers are with you daily. We are so sorry your e-mail got returned. It is richstefw@aol.com. Please e-mail anytime. Jamie aka Sissy Girl, I miss you so much. I wrap myself up in the blanket Karen made from your shirts.If I could have one wish , I would wish for love and Happiness and the four of us to be riding on the horses in dream sack valley. I am still wondering what it will be like when the deer come home. You have such loving friends here on earth. They have sent cards- gone to your grave. My heart is in your heart- for always and always- just look over your shoulder- I know you will be with me always. Love MaMa Sweet Jamie. The sun shines on this cold day, our lives colder too, without your warm hugs and smile. All of us who love you so much still struggle, still carry our memories of good times spent with you and still hope for the day that this date will be a day not to mark what we lost, but rather a day of gratitude for what we were blessed with. I am always grateful for knowing and loving you. Love to you always. Five holiday seasons gone by now. Each one has a permanent place empty of your presence, but every one filled with the greatest memories of our perfect last Christmas together. Then the New Year comes, and I know that I will not see your beautiful smile except for in pictures and memory. It is not enough. Never enough. But it all that I have, so I am forever grateful for that. Today I am in Las Vegas vistig your Grandma. She was in the hospital for four days, but is doing well mow. We just walked in the neighborhood. The same streets where you and I jogged the day after our Vegas Thanksgivig. I couldn't keep up after a couple of miles. You were in such great health, as usual. I had to stop and you gave me the sweetest nudge. This is the hardest day. Remembering. It is made easier knowing that Julie and Jody are visiting you today and will bring you flowers. You have such good friends. You are thought of and missed every day. You are loved for all time. I just wanted to say hello out loud today and tell you I love you Jamie. Next page >> |
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