The National Addiction Memorial honors the loved ones we’ve lost.

Michael we all miss ypu so very much. Please watch over dad for us and I will do the rest. Love, your big sister...

Too many

Everything

Drink a Guiness, share a memory, listening to his favorite songs

She was a warrior that fought and never gave up

Watching her get her 100 day sobriety token

Her laugh and smile

Always put others before herself

She will be remembered through her children and everyone who loved her

Alex was an easy going and beautiful soul. She was an absolute joy to be around and never once failed to make the ones around her laugh until their stomach hurt. She had bright, beautiful eyes and an ear to ear smile that could light up the room.

My favorite memory with Alex is the countless days spent with her in all our years together doing nothing but making each other laugh.

What I miss most about Alex can't be summed up because I miss every little thing.

I think she would like to be remembered by everyone just looking back at all the wonderfully hilarious times spent with her. The times with genuine smiles and deep belly laughs.

Jess was a beautiful loving soul and wonderful mother

I have to many to have a favorite

Her being there for me and having her to talk to and tell everything to

He was my younger brother always had your back. Always tried to make you laugh. He wanted a better life but couldn't fight his demons. He will always be missed and loved.

The day my oldest was born. He was right there next to me trying to make laugh though the pain. He only left because he had to, when they took me for a c-section.

I miss being able to call you when the kids do or say something silly. Or the long talks about nothing. Sometimes things happen and I'm like omg I need to call Jer, but I can't thats when it really hits me your gone and I'll never hear your voice again.

As a person who always wanted to do/ be better.

He was a tortured soul

So many...I only had him for 26yrs...his birthday was St Patrick's Day...he had the best sense of humor. He could make you laugh, even when you were mad at him. 💔

How he would always ask me for advice. Even if he didn't follow it.

As Buddha

Loving and kind. Was a great person inside and out. Loved her children and her family. Missed forever and always.

Eveything

He was my oldest son! He was sweet, tenderhearted and such an awesome Daddy!

So many wonderful memories of him. When his baby boy was born he was so excited to be a Daddy!

I will miss EVERYTHING about him. His laugh, smile, and his voice.

Being a wonderful Daddy and helping people and such a sweetheart!

Very loving, caring and willing to help everyone he could. 

The smile on his face when he found out he was going to be a father. 

His smile, his laughter, his wittiness, and his love. 

As a caring and loving person. 

Martin was a great man, chivalry existed in his heart. He shared his love with whoever was willing to receive it. He told you how he felt when he felt it. He was a family man

Laughing and joking all the time

His beautiful personality

Like someone who have life his all

Could never shake this monkey off of his back...

Valen

The what could have, should have, beens as far as the void his death caused a young 9-year-old, his only child, his daughter...

Hart of Gold

This was the father of my children. He was gone too soon.

Singing elvis songs to my belly when I was pregnant with our kids.

My kids being able to call or see him.

Happy, strong, wild

Shannon was an incredible person with a heart of gold and a Copenhagen smile. His laugh was contagious. He would offer anyone the shirt off his back, and he never met a stranger. The best big brother a girl could ask for.

His niece was 3 and really loved Monster High dolls. McDonald's had a series of Monster High toys in the kids meals and she had all of them but 1. Shannon called all the area McDonald's, asking for this one toy, and didn't stop until he found it. He surprised her with the entire display of all of the toys and made her day.

That smile. That laugh. Him calling me his little "sissy". The phone calls that, when he was sober, would last for hours. The surprise visits and calls.

I work in mental health, and run a 28-day inpatient substance abuse program. My husband and I also have 4 sober living homes for men. I will forever carry him with me as I work to help others fight their addictions, and share his story, to help them, where he could not find the strength to overcome. His name will be carried within me forever.

She never met a stranger and she would feed anyone. She would give you the shirt off her back. She had a huge heart.

Her standing by my wife on our wedding day. I’ll always cherish that. We loved to dance at the grocery store.

Messing with her. She would always brush of anything crazy you said and it was so funny, I can hear her say your sick..

A good person with a big heart that could cook and loved her kids and grandkids.

My son was so family oriented thats all he wanted was to be with his family. He loved everyone. His smile would brighten a room. He loved to be happy..

My son was so proud of me he wrote me and told me..

Hearing his voice and his smile..

Great father son and brother

He had a smile that lit up any room he walked into. He was kind, loyal, had a big heart. He was my best friend, my guy, my person my reason for loving. He saw beauty in the smallest things and in everyone. He is missed so much and will be forever

There’s so many of them. He was my singing partner we could finish each other’s sentences and bust out into random song and we were in sync. He sang Black Betty one day after showering and put on the best performance of my lifetime. We would go to Sonic and sit there for hours just talking and laughing. He was and still is my heart, my sunshine, my light.

Everything.. His smile, how much he cared, his touch, his corny jokes, him whistling lol

As a guy who loves hard even through all the hurt he carried he still found reasons to smile

Danielle was one of 4 children. She was my 2nd, and the one most like me. She was extremely popular with everyone and was a beautiful and vivacious girl from middle school on. She met her soul mate at 16 and they had 5 beautiful children by the time she was 26. They were almost 1, almost2, almost 3, and almost 4, and 9 at the time of her death on February 21st 2020. She doted on her children and her and their dad were together all the time. She knew about drugs and stayed away from them all her life until that last year. Unfortunately, on a night when none of the kids were home, she tried it one last time and it ended her life. She had a funeral with a two-hour line out the door at the wake. She had so many friends and she was such a presence. Matter of fact she was me at that age. She had my name tattooed over her heart at 18 and named her last baby Julien (my name is Julie) instead of using an a like it's normally spelled. Her story is in a book called Not in Vain, Mothers stories of their children's fight with the drug epidemic, by Bobnie Ziemer. She has a site on Forevermissed.com. Her name is Danielle Lafrance. If one person's life is saved by reading her story, I'll know I did right.

She was loud, full of life, beautiful like a model, and had an attitude and knew what she wanted. She loved her kids and family, loved social media, and being with friends. She is going to be remembered by all the pictures and videos I have of her as three of her children were too young to remember her. She was someone special and loved her children more than anything. She was going to be a nurse like her older sister. And her soulmate of 10 years is now like my son and we are working together to get things right for the children.

She loved her children so much.

Everything.

My hubby and dad to my 2 boys. The grandfather of their children. The love of my life for 30 years plus.

He loved his karate, his drawing, his boxing his family. He done so much for everyone in both sides of the family. He loved handball and playing with the kids. Loved to laugh and be silly.

I miss his smile his laugh the way he used to cuddle and always help out everyone. The holiday help his cleanliness and his artitistic ways. His singing and his dance moves.

He would love for everyone to be happy, stay clean and sober and grow up peacefully helping each other in times of need. Laughing and loving, bonding and creating loving and lasting new memories.