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In Memory - Derek Lance Butterfield, In Memory - Derek Lance Butterfield
Derek Lance Butterfield
9/7/1985 - 8/6/2006
It will be five years
since you were taken
from us. As to us it feels
like today every day.
There is a song “Today” -
it is my song for you.
The main lyric asks
who would you be today?
We miss and love you today
just as we did that tragic day
on 08-06-2006.
I see your face in the eyes
of the “Angel of Hope” -
we can feel you through her.
May she continue to look over you
in heaven as we do on earth.
We will never say goodbye,
just we love you
and will see you again.
- Love, your mother,
Cindy K. Butterfield
brother Lucas,
Grandma Nolan
and other family and friends
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