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In Memoriam Stories

Here is where you can send your story about your experience related to meningitis. Send us your story to fund@meningitis.ca and we will review it and post it on this page. 

These stories are of children and young adults who have died of meningitis and septicemia. Over and above the common cause of death is the speed, the moments it seems, between the first symptoms and last breath and the extraordinary need to be more aware of this disease. The stories are here to help survivors – parents and grandparents – deal with the aching grief and to ease the suffering of others with the knowledge that they are not alone.

Michael Longo’s mother, Kathryn Blain, tells his story.
On May 18, 2001 we lost our precious, little grandson Tye to meningococcal septicemia. Tye was a lively, happy little boy who touched many lives in our community. On May 16th Tye was as healthy as…
June 11, 1984 – July 08, 2000 It has been 4 ½ long months since we lost our beautiful son Matthew to this deadly disease. It has left our whole family in shock. Matthew comes from a large family;…
June 15, 1981 – October 4, 2000 Our son Brett was a first year Business Administration student at NAIT. He lived by himself in his own apartment, which he had just moved into in July. Before that…
February 19, 1988 – May 13, 2005 Irishtown, N.B. Our nightmare began on mother’s day 2005, our daughter woke up and said she wasn’t feeling good. She had worked the night before and had…
September 15, 1980 – June 20, 2002 Kevin was born on September 15, 1980. He is my middle child and the one that made me the most exasperated. I wrote in his eulogy that even though I loved all of…
I was very young when I had Brandon; I was 20. After he was born I got very sick in the hospital and the doctors did every test on me to find out what was wrong. They had said it was a virus. They…
Dit is onze Dochter & Zus 08-04-1977 – 31-05-1994 De meeste mensen denken, dit overkomt ons nooit.
On Thursday evening I picked Dawn up from work at 6.00 pm because McDonalds sent her home; she wasn’t feel well. I told Dawn on the way home she wasn’t allowed to go to school on Friday and…
09/21/1977 to 09/11/1980 On September 6th, 1980, I was out of town and my girlfriend, who lived in the other unit of the duplex we were renting, was babysitting my children, Aimee, 4 1/2 months…
My name is Maxine Roteliuk and I have lost a daughter from meningitis.
May 23, 1989 – December 3, 2000 On December 1, 2000 my daughter got up to get ready for school. She complained of having a sore throat.
If I sit down and attempt a formal story I will never do it. I have only just begun this past summer to begin to grieve the death of my son. He died April 28, 1978. I had never heard of meningitis…
Edward Joseph Bailey “Eddy” was born in Clarinda, Iowa to Phillip J. and Gail F. Bailey. He arrived at 12:01 a.m. and he was 8 lbs. 8 ounces. His older brother is Brett James Bailey, and…
My name is Mary Clough and I live in Muskoka, Ontario. Our family lost our eldest daughter MacKenzie Carey Clough to meningitis on February 26, 2005.
Today, December 31, 2008, my sister, Shirin would have turned 30 years old.
December 23, 1980 – April 27, 2007 Colin was a young adult with many friends and many passions, ranging from cooking to the Dalai Lama to the Canucks.
Born April 3, 1983, Died March 2, 2001 On February 20th 2001, Steff started to complain about a headache.
Jan 3, 1987 – Jan 29, 2009 Our daughter Jessica was a petite fun loving, daredevil. She could keep up with the boys in any sport going, yet still dress up and go to the ball as the beautiful…
July 6, 1983 – September 11, 2000 Tomorrow will mark a year since I lost my cousin. I thought I would look up on the information about the disease, and I stumbled about this site. I read all the…
On March 14, 2002 my son came down with flu like symptoms.
Where do I begin to tell you about my beautiful son Matthew?
September 20,1975 – March 18, 1999
This is a story about my sister who fought a long hard battle with a killer.
This is a story about my 16 year old son David.
June 12, 2003 – October 3, 2003.
On November 5th 2003 it will be two years since we lost our little Sofia to pneumococcal meningitis, she was 14 months old.
I gave birth on Sept. 21st, 2010 to a healthy baby girl, her name is Madelynn.
Our Nightmare… She woke up Wednesday, October 13th, as normal. Such a happy baby girl, smiling away & so excited to see me.
My daughter Makayla M. Schull lost her life to it. She was 10 months old. This is her story.
My daughter Kira was 18 months old when she passed away from meningitis in 2000.
 
It was 10 days from Elijah really telling us he was sick, to him passing away.
Below story shared with permission from Sandy Peckinpah…
Daughter, Twin, Sister, Wife, Mother, Aunt, Sister-in-law. Shelley was all that and as beautiful on the inside as she was out. From the first signs of something being seriously wrong, until her last…