"Students pay tribute to classmate"
Students and teachers are mourning the loss of a sophomore Lori Stackhouse, 15, who died on Friday, October 23, from injuries she sustained in an automobile accident, on Aberdeen Road, Moscow.
Lori was known by students and faculty here as an active and enthusiastic person. She was involved in the WWHS girls tennis team. She also worked at the D&L Haunted Hayrides in Hamlin.
In her spare time, Lori liked to spend time with her friends, and her sister, Casandra, with whom she was very close. She was a popular girl who was well-loved. Her presence will not be forgotten in the halls of WWHS.
Lori Stackhouse was my little sister, and I loved her dearly. She was a very special person, more than just a sister, she was my best friend. On October 22, a terrible thing happened. She was on her way to my great-grandmother's viewing when she got into a car with a girl named Kate. Kate didn't have her license-it was revoked from previous accidents and fines. Lori didn't know this until it was too late. Kate was going over 100 m.p.h. when she went to pass another car at the crest of a hill. She hit an oncoming car, spun around, and hit the car being passed.
When I found out Lori was brain dead and their was nothing else the doctors could do, my life changed. Now I have to do things on my own, things I never had to do alone before. Now I don't have the love only she could give. It's hard getting along day by day knowing she won't be there with her smile and kind words. Most people would never understand the level of pain my family and Lori's closest friends are experiencing. I would not wish this on anyone. I only hope that those who have not experienced this please understand you simply cannot know how much this hurts and I wouldn't want you to.
-Special to Lori-I love you always. I miss you too much to bare. Life is very hard without you. I would do anything to have you back.
-Casandra Stackhouse
A great loss among us all. We never got the chance to say good-bye. Now we all know she's in a better place, watching over us like our guardian angel.
Lori was always there when you needed a hug and she could always make you smile. I hope she knows how much we all miss her. Even though she is gone, I know she is in our hearts forever and that someday we will all see her again. So young and full of spirit, we will all miss her.
Rest In Peace, Lori J. Stackhouse.
-Melissa and Ashley Geffers
There is always time to remember the good. Sometimes it feels like it will never end, kind of like the never-ending story-except this time it has ended.
So suddenly and unexpected, like a shooting star. You will never know when you are going to see it again or just where it is going to end up, flying free from pain and sorrow, working its way to a good place, a new home, to a world almost like a dream. The me you can never wake up from, pleasant and lovely like beatiful fields of flowers. Although it's gone, it will never be forgotten. It will remain in your mind, in your heart, and always in your soul.
-Chris and Marlana Antidormi
Making friends laugh all the time, when they were up and when they were down;
Planning a future as a model with three commercials already in the works;
Speaking her mind when she thought something wasn't right.
Caring for all of her friends and her family and loving babies most of all;
Being so outrageously funny that Kristi would choke on her drink, and we'd all have to laugh;
Watching I Love Lucy late at night;
Taking walks in the woods outside her house;
Listening to Paul McCartney's Band on the Run;
Making beaded necklaces in her room;
Teaching Erica how to swim beneath water,
These are a few of our favorite remembrances and characteristics of our good friend, Lori. We await the day we will finally see you again.
-Kristi Johnson and Erica Butrim
When We Meet Again
By Jess Shire
You were and always and will be my very best friend, and I know someday I will see you again. When I found out that day that you had passed, I fell to the ground and thought I'd collapse.
Lori, you died saving the life of another, acting as if you were that little girls mother. I know for that you have earned your wings, you're up there right now being treated like queen.
When missing you at night, I look up into the stars, now I really hate riding in cars. So many things I need to say, but I know I can save it until I see you someday.
When that time comes, I will be so pleased, I will hug you so long, we'll collapse to our knees. I want you to know that I'll never forget you, you'll always be my sweet honey dew.
I don't know how I'll handle tennis next year, but that's only one of my many fears. You and I were the only "Dead Heads" on the team, that's what always made us have such a gleam.
School without you is such a drag, my head and my heart will always sag. I sit in homeroom waiting for your name to be called, and when I realize you're gone, I begin to bawl.
You can't talk to me, but there are other signs, and that makes me feel pretty fine. I think of you when I see the moon,stars, and clouds you have always made me so proud.
I know you are happy up there in the sky, with your beautiful wings, you must love to fly. Like all things, my sweet, his must come to an end, as I mentioned before, we'll be together again.
This poem is dedicated in loving memory of Lori Stackhouse.