This is the Annette Leach and Shawna Gilbreath Memorial Web Page
  

   This web page is to show how people with lupus can still be happy and try to help others.  It shows how my mother looked at life a different way than most people until the day she died.  She would help anyone that needed it that she could. Well she lost the fight against lupus on July 30, 1997 at the age of 53. She tried to keep her and everyone else's sprits up.  She is gone but long from forgotten she will always be in our hearts.  This web page is to tell her that we have not forgotten and that we think about her every day!  

Well the day I never wanted to come came way to early. Today is the day I lost my sister and my best friend in the world to this awful disease.  It was not quite two years after I lost my mom that I lost Shawna. So I guess her story comes to an end on this sad note lupus claims another victim in this thing we call life. 

                               Shane Leach   7-4-99

   Well it has been over a year since I lost my best friend in the world to this disease and it is not any easier today then it was on the fourth of July last year. When I wrote the statement above. Everybody says that time heals all wounds but it sure hasn't help this one. So if you can tell me why I have to go on in life with out my sister and mom. I should would like to know because it hurts everyday. When I get out of bed and every night when I go to bed. It just never gets any better. Well over the next couple of weeks or months I am going to try and give the site a face lift. I will do my best since I don't have Shawna to help me this time. So I don't know if it will be better or worse in the long run. Shawna was the creative on of the two of us and the one that could put things down in writing. So if you see any problems I would be glad if you could tell me by e-mailing me my addy is on the bottom the screen Shawna's is still there but if you click on it I will get the email so you can click on either one.

July 4th 2002

Well it has been three year since I lost my sister and I still miss her so much. To Shawna: I miss you so much and this day is always so painful for me I thought it would get easier over time but it dosen't I just want to see you one more time and hold you and tell you how much I love you. I will always love you. You were my best friend in the world. I Know we had our fights but they just didnt compare to the good times we had together. And I miss them so much I know you are watching over me from heaven but it just isn't the same. I miss you so much and it hurts to not have you here with me. I just want to pick up the phone and call you and hear your voice but I can't. I just want you to you know I love you and miss you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
Click on the picture for Annette's story.
(This is Dan and Annette Leach on 3-19-94 our parents)
Click here to go to our family album.
Click here for some
 inspirational poems
 Click here to read Shawna's
                story
Here are some links to some places about lupus.
  Lupus stories of other people from around the world
 IssyMissy's House
Here is the MCLFA page
 Here is one to the Lupus chat rooms
Greg & Hope's home page
  Tomorrow's home page
 Kathryn Ann's home page
Click on the picture for the definition of Lupus.
These links are about other diseases that affect our family.

 A Guide for Patients with Fibromyalgia Syndrome
 The Turner's Syndrome Society of the United States

                               E-mail us at
shawnaemail.gif - 13973 Bytesshaneemail.gif - 13991 Bytes
nanancy.gif - 34116 Bytes
Award3.gif - 50581 Bytes
Counter

1 1 1