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"To my little Angel"

The day came around again, it's your birthday- (April 11)
The pain rushed back to me, but it's your birthday-

I wanna hold you tight- tell you everythings ok-
or just have another chance to wish you a Happy Birthday-


I know your with God - it feels he took you too soon-
BUt I know he threw you a birthday party with cake and balloons-


If I only I was up there to see you blow out your candles -
and make your wish- I blew you kiss - and I hope it didn't miss-

I can see you in your dress - made of diamonds and pearls-
A chance to hold you again - I'll give anything in this world-

I know your gettin
g older - your such a big girl -
but never too big for mommy- to give you tickles and a twirl-

So if your looking down and you see Momma so sad -
its cause Momma misses you so much, and so does your Dad-

Well my little angel, enjoy your day-
Remember Momma loves you- Have a Happy Birthday!
J-R
06/24/06

This was written and copywritten by
poem/song writter JR in memory of my
Destiny, very much appreciated.
Thank you

 

 

 Made by Baby Dawn♥

 

Me at 21 years old and Destiny♥

 

 

 



UPDATES 

* I added some more of my photographs and I just added some new graphics thanks to Heather, cousin Dawn, Ellens Photography and myspace. People who are always so generous when I ask for a new graphic for my Daughter Destiny and even when I don't ask THANKS~Holly 

*to those of you on myspace I have a page and, feel free to join.
www.myspace.com/rememberingdestiny

and my real personal one at

www.myspace.com/mommie2girls 

^ please send me a message if you wanna add so I'll not deny you.
























One of her last known pictures that we have taken April 13 2004











Thanks to my lovely friend
Angel Kimlans mommie






































































      1 Corinthians 13:4-8

 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude. It is not self seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserveers. Love NEVER fails.
  


  

















      

 
Although at times I do feel like Eeyore
in this picture. Trying to live and being held back. I will though.... I have to. My
book I wrote about this is published 
and in print and can be bought at Barnes
 n Nobles dot com and Publishamerica.com. 
I hope it can help other people who have 
lost a child. I hope it can help those 
of us who had to learn to be parents 
again while grieving. 
The title to my book is "Parents For The First Time.....Again". My baby knows 
Destiny by her pictures and can say 
her name. When she gets older I can 
tell her more about her sister, and 
with this web site it should help.


















    
         
  
  

Also my baby Destiny's, aunt's site,
Brenda at

www.brenda-greenwood.memory-of.com





         



"For all sad words of tounge and pen
the saddest are these.....
...what could have been"
John Leaf Maudier






















  












My little Destiny passed away due to
carbon Monoxide poisoning due to a
house fire. The thought of that night
still torments me. I can still feel
and taste the smoldering heat and
acridic smell of the poison. When I
tried to find her to get her out.
I am tormented by the thoughts...
I try to go on. It was almost impossible
for me that first year. I have come
to love my new baby and she helps
me a lot. However I still miss my
Destiny and always will. I am
saddened by the thought that her
little sister didnt get to
physically meet her.
I have to try to keep going,
for Destiny's memory, for Evelyn,
and for me. It is hard and some
days I dont succeed. I know it
seems to some that its been long
enough, but some days it feels
brand new all over again. There
are days when I feel like this
message is dumb and I wanna
strangle myse;f for writting it.
Most days I dont want to go on
but I hid it well, at times anyway.
I miss my daughter and will NEVER
ever forget her.



I also had to unfortunatly make 
a new site. My sister was murder
 New Years Day and her link is 

http://www.brenda-greenwood.memory-of.com






what happened the night of April 15 2004 this is the whole story, everything I remember anyhow..... I was having a really crappy day and night, to top it off Comed had cut off my electricity (I was 100.00$ short of the bill) I was going to have the money the next day and they would NOT budge. anyhow we decided we needed candles for light so we lit all the ones we had. We had some lit on the walls(like the entrance to the living room) you know in the decorative candle holders... some tapers, some teacup candles, some in the living room and bathroom. My husbands son and his son's brother were there (it was spring break) also my best friends kids. Me and my hubby had a disagreement and were arguing. My daughter Destiny and me decided to go to bed early due to the lights being out and it being a little chilly outside. The kids all had those little glowsticks(the ones you put in your mouth) so we went to bed. I was very tired, extremely tired due to being 4 and a half months pregnant and also stress. My baby(Destiny) and me went to my room on the left in the middle of the house. My husband told the boys to go to sleep in the living room and Claudia layed her kids down in the front room~Destiny's room. My brother Jason, Jorge and Claudia went outside before bed to chill(hang out). Back in my room I layed her(Destiny) on the inside of my left arm as she mumbled to me and rubbed my arm and belly, she kept sighing and I felt so stupid because I had been arguing in front of her. Then I got PISSED she was barely 7 and sitting here worrying about me when she should be thinking of her birthday party that was 2 days away! she rubbed my belly and said "mommie today was not such a good day, maybe tomorow(damn)will be a better day" and I lost it! I wish I could change it and lie but I cant. I yelled at her and told her "shutup! dont worry about it, this is grown peoples problems, you are a little girl when are you going to stop worrying about mommie!?" she let out a big sigh from her tiny little skinny body and turned over to fall asleep. we started drifting off it was about 10 pm or later I don't know it was dark and I had no electricity. At one point beore knocking out I called her " Destiny, mamas...?....Destiny, mamita I'm sorry for yelling at you...".......no answer all she did was moan or mumble. Thats all I remember. Thats it our last words! Fucking great huh? I started falling into this deep sleep.Out of no where there is a whole bunch of noise and screaming and what sounds like fighting, tumbling on the ground or...? umm,...? maybe pounding on my door?....yes its pounding, is it, was it? these *&^%$#@# their out their partying or making noise while my bills need to be paid,(is what I thought) Im pregnant I have to work tommorow is what I was thinking . I was so tired I can't begin to describe how I felt I was mad and so groggy I felt like someone had gave me a huge dosage of nyquil. so anyway I'm super mad, I get up and removed Destiny off my arm quietly and smoothly to not wake her up. I layed her down and covered her up. I got up super mad, and warm? ... hmm anyway, well I walk out my room and open the door and close it behind me. (biggest mistake #1 of my life) the boys were their, my husbands son and his brother. they looked bewilderd and VERY dirty. Their faces were black they were jumping up and down and they are screaming at me. I was so mad still thinking of cussing out all the adults and trying to keep awake, I was so sleepy. I walked to the next room and my throat started tingling bad (like when you mix clorox and vinegar, if you never have, don't, its deadly) anyhow it was pitch black 15 feet away and glowing? huh? damn Im tired.( I was so groggy and confused) Finally I yell at the boys to talk to me one at a time. they said "the house is on fire!" ....okay....huh?.. oh shit! it must be the paper on the table or the toilet paper in the bathroom, is what was running through my mind at the moment. I then turned to face the kitchen sink and grabed the wash rag so I can turn off whatever fire we had. damn my eyes are burning! I turn to go back where I came from.......THE WHOLE SIDE AT LEAST 4 TO 8 INCHES OF THE SIDE OF THE LIVING ROOM ENTRANCE WALL WAS A BLAZE!! MORE THAN A WASH RAG CAN HELP I took a step towards my room and thought of all the kids...shit! I ran to the outside to call the rest of the adults (biggest mistake ever) and the boys followed (my Destiny was always with me, and they were always with her) when I opened the door it was as if I set off a bomb all the windows exploded and the fire spread to the next room while the noise shattered everyone upstairs awake (Destiny too apperently) My husband and Brother ran in to save the kids.....they went too the first room 12 seconds later I ran back in looking for Destiny, pitch black I was so disoriented in my own house it was black dark acidy and I could feel dry instantly. An acidy hot, horribly hot, intensly, acidy, feeling all over my body. I ran for air by the door hubby realized I didn't have her and I realized w horror he didn't either. Half a minute had passed already since I opened the door to call for help. He ran to the room to get her pushing me away to outside. She wasn't on the bed! He kept looking meanwhile outside the firemen had arrived and are holding me back as Im screaming "let me go my fucking house is burning my baby is gonna burn to death!" All the kids heard me and stared in horror at the flames engulfing the second floor roof, yup that quick. I got loose and ran in the house. I made it a few feet in when all I remember is a guy carrying me and saying " I need an ambulance she passed out and shes pregnant" wheres my kid? they began running out the house pulling my husband too, no Destiny! I awoke too and refused medical care. I wanted to go back in. I was being held back by civilians and screaming let me go let me go punching and kicking. all of a sudden all the air in my body let out and my heart skipped a beat. ( I honestly believe that was her last breath, dont ask me why just a thing I feel) I said "I need a phone" they were like 'ma'am we cant let you go' and I was like "no I am not going in their" and they are still praying WTF?! who are you praying too, for what?! so I turned and this is when the new me began living and I looked them dead in the eye and said " the fucking roof is caving in, you can all shut up now, shes dead and he aint listening" they stared at me, some of them let their grip go...thank you. I walked to the neighbors and called my sister and told her what happened, I was in shock and she thought I had a miscarraige because my house was burning. Meanwhile I walk out and the firemen are working oh so slow and all of a sudden all the civilians and neighbors are being moved far away from me. The firemen isolated me away from the kids and asked me, they asked me....oh man they asked me what her dentists name was........... I screamed, even though I felt it earlier it sucked all the life out of me. I repeated it after falling to the floor and screaming. Afterwards a hospital bed covered with a sheet came rolling out of my house and they put the bed in the back of the ambulance. The ambulance stayed put meanwhile a priest or whatever the fuck that man was walked towards me..... "no, leave, don't tell me I dont wanna know...please stop walking near me" is and were my thoughts.He came up to me and said.... the man of God, the compassionate man, said "we found a child and it's dead" NO she is not a child she is my life, who are you? I screamed. then they forced me in the ambulance to get oxygen and check my vitals.All the kids were already being treated, especially the ones that were in the living room. I asked to see her and they denied me the right.Then they said I wasn't doing too good and needed to be checked. I said "fuck my life" I asked to see her they said at the hospital, so I got in the ambulance feeling very numb,dumb and quessy. once I got their they began treating me for carbon monoxide poisoning and checking the babys (unborn) vitals since I passed out face first on my stomach. I was mad this baby inside me was fine I want my daughter, the one I already know let me see her. they told me at the hospital she wasn't their and I had been lied to. Her fathers mother showed (yea ) and started tending to me and asking me questions of course I answered like this for like 2 weeks "the house burned I left outside for help she died" (yea fucking mother of the year award goes too....) all of a sudden more church guys....no wait they have badges and cards? huh? ma'am sorry for your loss but we are detectives in suspicious deaths and we........" huh? what the fuck?! suspicios???

Well...... we all survived, she didn't, the house was beyond normal heat wise and burned very fast (all the above I described happened in minutes) so whoopdedoo an investigation....good I want to know what the hell happened to my baby, why so fast? Then my Jehovah Witnesses friends and aquaintances wanna come to see me....screw God go away! I feel bad now but not too bad, only for them. Spread the word tell every religion in this town to leave me alone! finally after 3 days in the hospital on Oxcygen beinf treated for 27 % carbon monoxide poisoning, drama, and her memorial service it was all over.The investigation and autopsy finished.It said she had 97 % carbon monoxide and in her lungs death due to carbon monoxide poisoning due to a house fire. They conducted an investigation and their conclusion was one of the taper candles against the wall(on the decorative candle holder) was cracked, as it began to melt it also was dripping hot wax below on the carpet and wood varnish. It kept melting until it broke off and luck of all my luck stayed lit and ignited the hot wax carpet and wall below. 6 % , 6 fucking percent of tapers supposedly do this. Nice odds all for me!:( 

I still find this unbelievably incredulous. I still am mad, sad, and angry. I still can't take it. I may laugh. I may be nicer I may even look for this God that seems to need hearing aids from time to time. I can be nice, but this is the story and now you know everything I know, feel, and live everyday of my life. 

~ Wow I was feeling angry that day huh? well it comes and goes, thank God I'm working on it. ~





Click here to see Destiny Perez's
Family Tree
Tributes and Condolences
The way....   / Holly Garza Ortega (Mother)
My memories are all I have. The sound of your laughter bouncing off the walls of my memory so distant and so vivdly clear. The way you used to scrunch up your nose, and get real quiet and meek when you didnt like something or were timid.The way you w...  Continue >>
My condolences   / Becca Garrido (none)
I had the fortunate experience of meeting Holly thru her friend, and when I had heard about what happened, even though I didnt know the family well, my heart sank.  No one should lose a child, I can't imagine the pain, as I am a mother of 4. I l...  Continue >>
Aww I like this one   / Susana Regan (angelfamilies)
Feliz Navidad little angel   / Susana Regan (angelfamilies friend )
I hope you have a blessed holiday with Tia Brenda and all our angels in heaven. Send angel hugs to your mommy and sis. xoxox Susana
A Young Life Cut Way Too Short   / Tiffany Poderzay (none)
I am so sorry for the loss of your beautiful angel Destiny. A very young life cut tragically short, an angel now in heaven who will feel no more pain.

I too suffered a loss when I was 7 years old. I was in an apartment fire with my mother...  Continue >>
It has been a year!  / Holly Ortega (mommie)    Read >>
REMEMBERING PRECIOUS DESTINY  / ROSE GRMA TO ANGEL BRITTANY SYFERT     Read >>
Remembering your 4 year angelversary date Destiny  / Susana Regan (angelfamilies)    Read >>
happy bithday  / Sara Hailes (mam to a angel (angel friend) )    Read >>
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU SWET DESTINY WITH LUV ALWAYS  / LaRaine Mom To Angel Cynthia Hernandez (friend)    Read >>
Remembering you and Destiny  / Yolanda Rogers (Known only thru her Mom's heart )    Read >>
FELIZ Cumpleanos Sweet Destiny this is for you  / Susana Regan (angelfamilies)    Read >>
my condolences  / Lorraine Docherty     Read >>
Destiny is an Angel and so is her Mommy  / CRYSTAL BLUEICE (FRIEND)    Read >>
Christmas with Jesus  / Heidi Laws (Angel Evan's Mom )    Read >>
More tributes and condolences...
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Her legacy
Sending me all her love  
To me this symbolizes my Destiny sending me all her love so that I can get out of bed and function everday.
To me this symbolizes Destiny watching over her baby sister Evelyn  
her  
To see how she really was read the poems in tributes, look at the pictures in the album, and check out some of her schoolwork that is scanned into the photo album. I really lost all of the good stuff (except my memmories) in the fire but here is what I do have enjoy. Also if you have something of Destiny, a memory, toy, photo, or kind words save them here. If you would like to write a poem you can either write it under her legacy or under tributes and condolences. with loving care Holly 

                     
 
Destiny's Photo Album
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