Messages from Kerrie

1. I hope James and Michelle won’t mind.. but I have moved their comments, from the last post, to a new post so that people will be sure to see them. I’m not sure how many people think to go back and read comments that may have been added.. James’ story still gives me chills when I hear it, because I know it was Kerrie sending a message to him. Michelle, your story made me cry..

(Don’t ask me why the number one is on here.. I don’t know.. and can’t get it to disappear 🙂 )
James says

I’ll never forget it. I had left work a bit early that day to avoid traffic, etc. It was pretty sunny out, but we were expecting rain. So I was driving along, very few cars on the road and few clouds in the sky when traffic just stopped. I couldn’t see anything wrong, the radio hadn’t mentioned any accidents … it was odd. All of a sudden, not more than a few hundred feet in front of me, a couple of the biggest bolts of lightening I’ve ever seen struck the ground. I was almost blinded by the bright purplish flash … it was beautiful, but I had a sinking feeling that something was wrong and I was meant to see it! Then, just as quickly as we had stopped, traffic was clear again.

It was about 30 minutes before the rain started and we had any more lightening. I got home and checked the site only to read about Kerrie’s passing. I knew she had sent me a message. Kerrie knew I loved thunderstorms and it just made sense.

Love you all too!

– James

Michelle says

WOW. I’m just reading what James just wrote, and I do remember the day of Kerrie’s passing. I left work and picked up my little sister (who is 19 years younger) that lives an hour away. She was coming to stay with us for the weekend, and I had before I left work I had jumped on the KAST site for any updates, but there were none. My sister and I spent the hour in the car talking about Kerrie and all the fun times we shared. As I was telling my sister what an amazing person Kerrie was, she began to cry, although that wasn’t my intention. When I asked her why she was crying her response was “Your friend sounds like such a nice person, and I don’t understand why stuff like this happens.” She went on to say that she would be lost without me. It was at that moment that I put myself in Jenn’s position and knew I would be lost without my sister too. I do remember the thunderstorm that day, and it was raining as we pulled into the drive. Before we ordered the pizza, I went back on the KAST site and that is when I read the news. I am so grateful that my sister was with me when I read it. She hugged me and let me cry on her for a bit. And ironically, that day was the first day/weekend my sister ever came to stay with me. I needed it. And it felt so good.

Thanks, James and Michelle, sharing your stories. If any of the Whitney family reads this, you should ask Bill to share his. I won’t post it for him as it’s kind of personal.

I also have a story to share, from an old, old, old boyfriend.. who wouldn’t probably be on the page.. so I will tell it for him.

Back when I was 18 or 19 I was dating a guy named Lee. I am sure my entire family remembers him… really.. how could anyone forget him ( Lee.. if you actually do read this… no bad intentions intended).  We dated for about 5 years… He and Kerrie had been good friends, most of the time, and Kerrie and I would sometimes talk about what had happened to him, where he was, etc. I knew he was in Arizona, but really had no interest in contacting him.

Had been in contact once, in the 17 years since we had dated.. and now that I am sitting here writing this I remember that the one time I had been in contact with him was when he had sent me an e-mail, out of the blue, and had asked about me, Ron, Kerrie and my best friend Stephanie. He and Stephanie had been good friends and I had to be the one to tell him that she had recently passed away. Hmm.. strange to think that was the time he had contacted me..I didn’t make the connection until just now.

After Kerrie had passed away, I was thinking about Lee and that I should really try to find him so that I could let him know. Even though there were a lot of bad things between us, I felt like he should know.. but I never made an effort to find him or contact him.

This past December, I opened my jenn@kast2006 e-mail and there was an e-mail from Lee. He had been trying to research a product called Kwik-kast fast drying cement and when he put Kwik-Kast in Google the first page that came up was our KAST page.  He wrote how he sat in disbelieve and read the entire page.. all the blogs, the entire gallery.. and entire year’s worth of reading.  Afterward he couldn’t figure out how he ended up on that page, because it would not show up again in the google search, even though it was the first page that had showed up that time.  He is convinced Kerrie was trying to let him know and so am I.  I have searched for Kwik-Kast cement, just to see what would come up… and you won’t find the KAST page unless you go 20+ pages into the Google search. The only way that page came up first, that day, was because of Kerrie..

Last night, I was laying in bed, thinking about how Kerrie had let Lee know.. and then I started thinking about someone else that should probably be told.. It was like Kerrie was nagging at me to find him and tell him.. Mike Tetzlaff.. I’ll do my best Kerrie.. But maybe you can help me out a little :)  Last known location was Venice, Florida ( But you already know that:) )… I doubt he’d be doing a search for Kwik-Kast cement.. so you may have to be a little more creative this time 🙂

hmm.. maybe I will just let Kerrie do all the work and let everyone know if I actually hear from him that he found out about Kerrie somehow!

And if anyone else has a story they want to share.. please tell us. I know Kerrie has given her messages to a lot of people..