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Post by SoMuchHookUCanFish on Sept 10, 2004 19:38:40 GMT -5
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Post by PBAHoFer on Sept 10, 2004 20:32:04 GMT -5
I have never experienced the level of grief that I am feeling now.
Losing Grandparents and Great-Aunts and Uncles from the family is one thing, losing one of the best friends I have EVER had in my life is quite another.
My deepest, most heartfelt sympathies go to Bo and Missy's family. Berdie, Tommy, Scott & Rhonda, Bobby & Julie, Duck & Ginger and all the kids, may you find peace in knowing Melissa has passed on to a better place, and her pain and suffering is over.
Love to you all,
David Fields
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Post by wildatheart on Sept 10, 2004 20:47:46 GMT -5
My thoughts and prayers are with Bobo and the family during this difficult time. May they feel at ease knowing Missy is in a better place and is no longer suffering,
Somethings just shouldn't happen and when they do we can only wonder why.
Time will heal and Missy will forever be a part of alot of good memories for all of us.
She was a wonderful person.
Judy Wooley
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Post by msmullet on Sept 10, 2004 22:11:20 GMT -5
There aren't words to express the level of grief that is going around amongst friends and family at this time. Missy was one of a kind. She will be missed tremendously. As Lorrie stated it is now our job to make sure those babies know what a loving and wonderful person Missy was. It's hard to deal with losing a loved one, but especially at such a young age. She will always be remembered with love, humor and sorrow. Hard to imagine humor being amongst the emotions, but if you knew her, you will understand. Long live Missy's memory.
We love you and will miss you always.
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Post by momofbigjle (Sunday Evans) on Sept 11, 2004 0:12:31 GMT -5
Missy made the most unselfish decision I have ever witnessed in my life, that ultimatly cost her... her own wonderful life! I am a good mother, but Missy has shown me the epitamy of Motherhood! She always had a smile to share which was very contagious as was her loving and fun personality! What a ray of light God shared with us for too brief of a time! This is my second experience with medical mysteries and misfortunes and as Paula said, we can only begin to wonder why? Missy has left behind two wonderful reminders of her bright Spirit in Jacob and Shelby. I am happy the Vinton and Savant families have these two babies to keep Missy's spirit alive so vividly. My heartfelt sympathy goes out to all of the family and my hope is that time will ease their wounded hearts. I keep remembering Jeremy running through the bowling center (all of them) yelling....Missaaaayyyy! Well, Missaaaayyy, farewell my friend! I am thankful your suffering is over! You were a delight and one of life's true treasures. Big Scottie, I am so very sorry your birthday has been stricken with such a tragedy! As all of your lives have been! Please know our thoughts and prayers are with you all in your hours of need. We love you!
Sunday, Jimbo, Jeremy and Jericka Evans
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Post by steakdinner on Sept 11, 2004 0:27:29 GMT -5
A tribute to my friend..... Today when I heard that your fight had ended my heart began to grieve. We had a connection that few could understand unless they had walked in our shoes. We had alot of laughs many of them at our own expense. Some people may not understand the decisions that we have made, even though in our hearts there was no other way. To have a long healthy life with our children is all we were(are) seeking, to just feel normal for once. I am so very sorry the hopes and dreams could not be completed for you and your family, you were so deserving. I will miss you so and those babies will know what a wonderful person and mother you are. If I had to guess I would say god needed a wonderful, loving, caring person to make him laugh and he chose you. I know that I am a better person to have had known you and had you as my friend. FLY WITH THE ANGELS MY FRIEND!!!!!!!  Bo, Birdie and family my thoughts and prayers are with you all. Jennifer Helm |
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Post by momofbigjle (Sunday Evans) on Sept 11, 2004 0:33:07 GMT -5
Well said Jennifer! She was an Earth Angel who has now earned her wings!
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Post by PBAHoFer on Sept 11, 2004 1:23:20 GMT -5
Amen, Jennifer.
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Post by XBOM on Sept 11, 2004 3:07:40 GMT -5
I really have no words that I can say that haven't already been said. I remember Missy from early teenage years. Berdie and all the college boys were going to bowl a tournament somewhere and Berdie asked if Sunday and I would babysit Missy for the weekend.  We had our laughs that weekend and I think it was that weekend that Sunday was accepted into the Savant family. As with any women I have ever known we had our fun times and we had our fights also. But right here right now I really can't remember what we ever had to fight about. And now we'll never have a chance to laugh or cry about those times again. I feel that there was something left unsaid between Missy and I, And hope that someday I will be able to finish that conversation with her. So young,alway's happy and made you laugh even if you didn't think it was funny. Life isn't fair and times like this prove that fact. The first part of her life is complete and now she goes to Heaven to help us all from there. All my love to her family and her kids. Jimmy Fields |
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Post by steakdinner on Sept 11, 2004 10:20:29 GMT -5
I sit here and read what people have written over and over again trying to believe it has really happened this way, it seems so unreal. It has been bobo and missy for as long as I can remember. Seeing Bo walk in without her behind him or in Missy's case the other way around  does not register in my thoughts. The tears stop only briefly throughout the day until you remember something else about the past. A part of me feels so guilty for expressing my own grief knowing that the family's pain so exceeds mine. Dave please let Bo and the family know how much we are here for them and how much they are in our thoughts and prayers until they are here for us to tell them ourselves, Thank you Jennifer |
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Post by msmullet on Sept 11, 2004 16:48:19 GMT -5
I would like to see everyone post some memory or such about Missy here. I am going to print this out and take it to the family, since not everyone reads this site. I want all of Missy's family to realize how much she was loved.
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Post by administrator on Sept 11, 2004 23:25:15 GMT -5
I am still finding it difficult to believe that Missy has been taken from this earth. I had known her for quite some time, and even though we were not close, I feel that I was blessed to have known her at all. I truly believe that all of her family, friends, and especially her 2 beautiful children, have the most loving guardian angel possible to watch over them. My condolences and heartfelt sympathy goes out to her entire family.
Shelly Wooley
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Post by rjj on Sept 12, 2004 1:04:38 GMT -5
I watched in Utah at Nationals as Missy bowled - as well as i can remember the score, something like 760 and Bo bowled 70? and they came in 4 that year in Nationals for doubles!! It was so much fun to watch Missy - who was always a great bowler, but that night, was the night of Missy's bowling life!!!!! If I even try to recall fun times, there are just too many - we made road trips to bowl, we went to Gulfport and had a blast - there are just too many memories that I am greatful to God I have. I will always think of you Missy, and family, and I will take this and know we cannot take our friends and family for granted - we can be called home at any time! I will pray that my mother look after Missy in Heaven, and they can both look after all of us here - until we see each other again, I love you Melissa
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Post by PBAHoFer on Sept 12, 2004 10:38:29 GMT -5
I could write a book on my memories of Melissa over the 20+ years we have been a part of the Savant/ Vinton family.
Holidays always started with us visiting with our "real" family, and then going over to "The Savant's" in the afternoon. I remember listening to the music countdowns on New Year's Days, playing cards in the dining Room. Midnight Christmas gift exchanges.......... YABA in La Porte, Berdie was coordinator for a year or 2, and brought Missy to bowl, seems like we had a Tuesday afternoon league they came down for........ Texas Junior Masters we ran for a couple or 3 years in the 80's........... Missy had a lock on 3rd Place in that tournament, and I just heard her call me a bad name for mentioning it here now........... lol
I remember when she met Bo, and he was bowling doubles @ Alvin, we were down there, and she was on the sly, pointing him out and asking "What we thought".....
With the cut off flannel shirt, unbuttoned to his navel, and the Avon jewelry (you know the Lightning bolt, and the Mustang pendants, he had both...) I told her he was quite the catch.............
Many people can say they have stood up for a Bride or Groom during their wedding......... Fraul and I can honestly say we stood by Wayne, but we were standing for both, and................. we went on the infamous "Honeymoon in Vegas"........... that brings to mind another story, but I won't go into it here......... I remember Missy wasn't old enough to gamble, so she and Mike stayed in the nickel slots, while the rest of us "High Rolled" at the $2 Blackjack, and Quarter Slots...........
A lifetime of memories that, by mentioning just a few occurences, I hope I don't dishonor the many other cherished moments that I have shared with Missy and failed to mention..........
After Bo and Missy moved to New Braunfels, started their family and we only saw them a few times a year, it meant we missed out on being around the kids very much. Missy always apologized for every little thing they were doing when we were all together, thinking they were acting just like the kids we (her included) always complained about.......... we always had to explain it was different when the kids were family........ "Now go bust their butts..........." lol
Each of our personal relationships with Melissa, and the loss we have suffered, based on her friendship, is enough to overwhelm you. That's without even focusing on the impact of this loss on her family, husband and children. It's just a tragedy.
I love Missy and her family as if they were my own.
David
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Post by XBOM on Sept 12, 2004 14:41:23 GMT -5
I also remember the card games,dominoes and any other game of the moment we played while the Savants lived in South Houston. I remember being totally involved in almost everything that went on in their family. But like David said after we all grew up and moved our seperate ways, some started families and others started a family and are now starting a new family it was alway's Missy and Bo. I remember one night Missy, Bo and I had gone to Silverado's in Baytown and of as usual Bo had a little to much to drink. And on the way back they started running out of gas and had to pull into the Exxon on Federal Road on fumes. Missy was driving and had gone inside to get $5 in gas. When we got back outside Bo had DISSAPPEARED Knowing he was tipsy Missy was frantic. We ended up finding him a few minutes later he came walking out from behind the Store with a big grin on his face ;D Well Missy went off on him telling him" When your drunk and I'm in charge you keep your a$$ in the car! Do you understand me next time I'll just leave you here and you can fend for yourself next time mister" Well Bo started mumbling how he was just trying to help her and when he had opened the gas tank to pump the gas for her the fumes had made him sick and instead of getting sick all over his car he had gone behind the building. Missy was beside herself Here she was chewing hiim out for dissappearing and he was actually just trying to help. To make a long story short. They got married and had 2 kids. God Bless you Missy Jimmy |
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We had our laughs that weekend and I think it was that weekend that Sunday was accepted into the Savant family. As with any women I have ever known we had our fun times and we had our fights also. But right here right now I really can't remember what we ever had to fight about. And now we'll never have a chance to laugh or cry about those times again. I feel that there was something left unsaid between Missy and I, And hope that someday I will be able to finish that conversation with her. So young,alway's happy and made you laugh even if you didn't think it was funny. Life isn't fair and times like this prove that fact. The first part of her life is complete and now she goes to Heaven to help us all from there. All my love to her family and her kids. 
does not register in my thoughts. The tears stop only briefly throughout the day until you remember something else about the past. A part of me feels so guilty for expressing my own grief knowing that the family's pain so exceeds mine. Dave please let Bo and the family know how much we are here for them and how much they are in our thoughts and prayers until they are here for us to tell them ourselves, Thank you