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| February 13, 1989 - 12:36am |
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Kendra Dawn Jones, our angel then and our angel now in Heaven. Here's our story: I was in alot of pain and bad labor for 19 hours, her heart rate and blood pressure was dropping and so was mine so after all of that they ended up giving me an emergency C-section because she was being stubborn and didn't want to come out, plus they thought she wouldn't make it much longer - as soon as they cut me open she popped right out and the doctor laughed and said she reminded him of Dolly Parton, (wide chest - LOL - takes after her mother.) Anyway, we took her home and everyone fell in love with her. She became spoiled rotten - I thank the grandparents for that - it was so strange being a parent, I was 20 and her dad was 18. A year and a half later, we had her sister Abby. Kendra wanted to take over and be the mother. I had to watch her because she would try to pick up Abby and carry her around. I flipped out numerous times when I would catch her doing that - but she loved Abby so much. They became the best of friends, they had their fights just like every other sister, but when it came time to stick up for one another, they had each others backs.
They were together until Abby was 15 and Kendra was 16 (almost 17).
      
  
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| November 22, 2005 - 8:07am |
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The day Kendra went to Heaven: I was at work and got a call from Human Resources - they needed me to come up there - to my surprise there stood two state patrols - boy I thought I was in some deep trouble. He told me to sit down and then he told me that there had been a bad wreck and said my daughter was involved in it and she didn't make it - I screamed and told him that he had the wrong girl. That wasn't my Kendra, my Kendra was in school - and then he told me that there was another girl who didn't make it, Alyson. My screams were probably heard around the world, but I didn't care, Kendra was my life and Alyson grew up with Kendra so I loved Alyson just the same. Both girls died instantly and went to Heaven together. The worst part about the whole thing was that for almost 2-1/2 hours I didn't know my daughter had passed away. We normally would text each other on her way to school - it was around 10:15am and I realized that she didn't text me and I was going to text her but I didn't want to get her in trouble at school so I didn't, I just figured I would see her after school - at 10:30am I was told the awful news. My precious Kendra had already left this world - she was gone at 8:07am -
I was able to see her again, but not at home, it was in a hospital bed where she laid so peaceful and so beautiful - she had no scratches on her - her face was perfect, and there wasn't a hair out of place on her pretty head, she looked like she was sleeping so soundly. Her wounds were internal, the steering wheel crushed her - The coroner called me that night and told me she felt no pain - thank you Lord for that. Just by looking at her you could tell she went peacefully with no pain. Thursday was Thanksgiving and the funeral home let me go spend some time with her - that was our last Thanksgiving together. I thought I could handle seeing her because I went alone and I'm supposed to be the strong one, but once I saw her in the casket, I broke down and lost it - I needed my family - I called them and they came instantly to be by my side. Once we left Kendra, I went into another room of the funeral home where they had Alyson - once again, I lost it - she was like a daughter to me - I loved her so much - her and Kendra grew up together. They had so much fun hanging around with each other.
We had the funeral for both girls at a church because the funeral home would had been to small for such a big crowd. Come to find out, even the church ran out of room - on the funeral day some people weren't even able to view the actual funeral - not enough room in the alter area. This just proves how much these girls were loved. I was just amazed - so many school kids and so many family and friends.The friendship of Alyson and Kendra lives on because now Patty (Alyson's mom) and I have became really close and good friends because we know how each other feels and we are each others rock! So when you see me and Patty, you will see the spirits of Kendra and Alyson.
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